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Subject: Shareholder Net forums/ Re: [Shell-nigeria-action] Speak Truth to Power

This was posted on a  Shell activist forum and seems appropriate for
Free Burma investor information and anti investment sanctions activists
re Total, Unocal, down the list... Is there anyone out there who can
look into this and see what you come up with? thanks, ds*


> Johnson wrote: Just wondering,
> 
> What kind of experience has anyone had using the following
> technique on the oil companies?
> 
> ---GJ
> 
> --------- Begin forwarded message ----------
> From: "Graham Caswell" <caswell@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: "Speak Truth to Power"
> Organization: Indigo
> Article: 86144
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> 
> MONEY TALKS......... SO TALK DIRECTLY TO THE MONEY
> 
> Communicating directly with shareholders, executives and employees of
> large
> corporations can be an exceptionally focused and effective method of
> getting
> YOUR message in front of the people who make the decisions.
> 
> You can do this quite easily through on-line forums and bulletin boards
> aimed at shareholders of specific corporations.  Shareholders are usually
> hungry for news about their stock and so
> they check these forums regularly. Senior executives are also usually
> highly
> aware of these forums as information in them can affect their share
> price.
> In general, corporations are increasingly sensitive to information shared
> in
> on-line financial discussion forums due to the potential effect on share
> price, and on executive and employee moral.
> 
> Since anybody can post a message, this is an excellent opportunity for
> social and environmental justice activists to get their message in front
> of
> the people who really make the decisions. This is where the executives
> and
> shareholders of corporations live -where the money is.
> 
> One of the biggest shareholder forums is Yahoo Finance, but there are
> also
> several others.
> 
> For example, if you wish to communicate with the shareholders of Union
> Carbide (responsible for the horror of Bhopal, see www.bhopal.org ), then
> go
> to <http://messages.yahoo.com/?actionIf you would like to express your
> views directly to the shareholders of
> Monsanto, you would go to
> <http://messages.yahoo.com/?actionExxon's shareholders can be reached at
> <http://messages.yahoo.com/?action....while shareholders and executives
> of
> the US's main anti-personel
> land-mine manufacturer, Alliant Techsystems Inc., can be located at the
> following Yahoo Finance discussion forum....
> http://messages.yahoo.com/?action
> Yahoo Finance and most other bulletin boards require that you register
> before posting, however it is customary to remain anonomous.  It is
> important to be polite, but also to be direct. The 'headline' is also
> important, and should be as eyecatching as possible. Finally, it is very
> useful for the executives and shareholders if you include a web site
> address
> at which they can get further information.  This activity is important as
> corporate shareholders often are not aware of the real effects of their
> company's actions or of the feelings of others about those actions.
> 
> Communication with shareholders can range from posting an article from an
> activist website or other discussion forum, to becoming involved in
> lengthly
> discussions with shareholders.  It is important to be
> consistant -shareholders and other regulars may initially ignore a
> newcomer
> in the hope that they will go away.
> If you don't go away then they are faced with seeing your message
> whenever
> they are looking for information of their share price.
> 
> One way to do this is to 'adopt' a corporation or corporate sector and
> focus
> on the discussion forums related to it.  Once you've established a
> 'presence' (perhaps by quoting facts, comments, etc on the negative
> effects
> of the corporation's activities), then it is simply a matter of dropping
> in
> a couple of times a week to post new material, reply to comments, etc.
> 
> TRY IT - IT WORKS!
> 
> Graham Caswell
> caswell@xxxxxxxxx
> --------- End forwarded message ----------
> 
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