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Give Another Couple the Joy of Parenthoc44 Consider being an Egg Donor Healthy Women 21-32 years of Non-Smokers Limited Time Commitment Compensation Provided $2,500 Call: OHSU (503) 418-5333 OHSU is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution Run your for sale item in the ODE classifiedsfor five days (items under $1,000) ... if you don’t sell it, we’ll run it more days for free! Ecopledge.com gathers support ■ Pledge asks students to refuse to work for companies that negatively impact the environment By Alana Lynn Oregon Daily Emerald With the 30th anniversary of Earth Day coming up on Saturday, four influential student leaders signed their names to a pledge that would boycott specific com panies that do not comply with environmental standards. Ecopledge.com is a new organi zation started in October of 1999. With the help of 150 college cam puses nationwide it has targeted and successfully played a role in Ford Motor Company’s and Gen eral Motor’s moves to changing their means of production for the betterment of the environment. ASUO Student Body President elect Jay Breslow, Vice-President of Leadership and Panhellenic Council Felisa Hagins, OSPIRG campaign coordinator Erin Pursell and Ecopledge.com cam paign coordinator Leona Kassel all signed the pledge. The Ecopledge.com campaign targets companies that currently do not place environmentally safe prod Without us, the stu dents, corporations will not succeed. We are their future. Jay Breslow ASUO President-elect II ucts on store shelves. As Earth Day approaches, stu dents will be able to sign their name to the pledge as well. “Signing this pledge is a great place for people to start to make a difference,” Kassel said. The groups want to have at least one quarter of University students signed to the pledge. By signing the pledge, students are saying that they will not work for the companies targeted by Ecopledge.com until the compa nies take proper action to comply with environmental standards. “Without us, the students, cor porations will not succeed. We are their future,” Breslow said. Other corporations targeted by Ecopledge.com include Disney, Coca-Cola, Nestle and General Electric. The Ecopledge.com Web site is the headquarters for the cam paign. The Web site provides op portunities for students, con sumers and investors to sign the pledge. It also provides informa tion on targeted companies and the demands made by Ecopledge.com. “Students are beginning to real ize the impact they create and they are taking action,” Pursell said. De Fazio continued from page 1 they facilitate the ability for U.S. companies to easily move into other countries and avoid this na tion’s stringent labor and environ ment laws. “Why are all the companies go ing to Mexico?” he asked the audi ence. “Because you can make a whole lot more money when you can dump [pollution] out the back door.” Despite painting a bleak scene for the environment and third world workers, Rep. DeFazio did argue that by tightening the flow of currency from nation to nation, relieving the debt of poor nations and devoting funds to sustainable development the progress of the organizations could be slowed. Randy Newnham, a coordinator for the Survival Center, said he was pleased Rep. DeFazio came to campus to speak against the global organizations because it draws at tention to the organizations, which he said helped only the elite classes. “The fact that he’s [DeFazio] speaking out against these institu tions just shows that he has not been bought and sold by corpora tions like so many other politi cians,” he said. Many Rivers Group’s conserva tion chair Shannon Wilson said that his organization will take sug gestions from Rep. DeFazio’s speech to take action against the environmental disregard the group feels the WTO, IMF and World Bank exhibit. “We will come up with solu tions that he [DeFaziol and other congressmen can bring to the table,” he said. Shannon said one of the major changes the Many Rivers Group would like to see is altering the current system that allows corpo rations and the WTO to sue coun tries for imposing strict environ mental standards. 008891 President Wylie Chen has a Pulse. ou have one? 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