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Fight Mugabe's Dictatorship in Zimbabwe

The Middle East is not the only place on the planet that people are suffering. Robert Mugabe is waging a severe campaign of violence and repression on his own people to maintain his grip on power in Zimbabwe. After 20+ years, it's time for a change. The recent elections were blatantly fraudulent. European and Commonwealth pressure on Zimbabwe's government to reform has met with no success. Mugabe has withdrawn Zimbabwe from the commonwealth, exacerbating its isolation and even further limiting the influence of external parties. It's time for America to act. Travel bans and restrictions on Mugabe and his cronies were a good start, but the US can and should do more.

Contact your Senators, Representative, and the Bush administration and urge them to act. Make sure they are aware that their constituents know what's going on in Zimbabwe and consider it important.

James Makamba

March 31, 2004 - Mr. Makamba is a Zimbabwean businessman and politician currently detained by the Mugabe regime for alleged business transactions unauthorized by the government. The following links from Zimbabwean publications provide more information on his case.

An editorial from The Sunday Mirror published on Africa Online.
A March news item from The Herald on allAfrica.com.

After several years overseeing the ruin of Zimbabwe's main foreign currency earner—commerical agriculture, particularly tobacco—the government is now attempting to tightly control foreign exchange. It would seem to be these recent policies that Mr. Makamba has run afoul of. See a March 30 Financial Times piece on mining in Zimbabwe by David White for more information.

Support Kyoto, Send a Message to Oil and W.'s Administration

Boycott Exxon Mobil Gasoline

Want to reduce our country's contributions to global warming? As noted by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, lobbying Washington only gets environmental groups so far, mostly due to the fact that the oil industry has more money to feed more powerful lobbies.
Starting directly with consumers is one of the most effective ways to get policy changed. In that vein, a British "Stop Esso Campaign" is trying to get drivers in Britain to boycott Esso (Exxon Mobil in the US) stations until the company supports the Kyoto accords.
Exxon is one of the major forces behind the Global Climate Coalition, a powerful business lobby in Washington that opposes the Kyoto accords. According to Friedman, people with connections to Exxon Mobil "reportedly contributed more than $1 million" to W.'s campaign. It should be clear that much of the Bush administration's environmental and energy policy is strongly guided by the oil industry. Denting oil profits by getting consumers involved seems to be a direct link to influence of W.'s decision-making.
Join the British effort and boycott Exxon Mobil stations until the company gets behind Kyoto.

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