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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
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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.
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