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[From The Rainforest Action Network Web Site]

Urgent Alert           Stop Mitsubishi's San Francisco Contract!

Rainforest Action Network needs your help to keep rainforest
destroyers from being rewarded with taxpayer dollars. Join us
and activists across the world in our efforts to have the City
of San Francisco enforce its own laws against doing business
with companies active in Burma.

Burma's democratically elected government has been prevented
from taking office by a group of generals who call themselves
SLORC, or State Law and Order Restoration Council. This
government is one of the most oppressive in the world. SLORC
enforces its will by rape, forced labor and torture.

Among Burma's natural resources is a national gas field worth
some $6.5 billion which the SLORC plans to use to obtain money
to buy more weaponry for its brutal regime. To transport the
gas, the SLORC is now building a pipeline through Burma's
rainforests. They have used forced labor to build pipeline
access roads and the infamous "death railroad." They have also
relocated entire villages at gunpoint because they were in the
path of the pipeline.

This pipeline, which costs more lives every day, is being built
with the help of Mitsubishi, one of the world's worst destroyers
of rainforests.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has joined other American
cities in passing a resolution banning the City from giving
contracts to any companies that do business in Burma. Yet
Mitsubishi, the same company building the pipeline, is up for a
$137 million contract with the San Francisco Airport.

     Other companies have this to say about working in Burma:

          "Burma should not be open for business until it grants
     its citizens the most basic human freedoms."
          -- Business Week

          "It is not possible to do business in Burma without
     directly supporting the military government and its
     pervasive violations of human rights."
          -- The Wall Street Journal

     Companies which have pulled out of Burma include:

     Levi-Strauss , Liz Claiborne , Reebok , Smith & Hawken ,
     Carlsberg, Eddie Bauer , Amoco , Petro-Canada , Heineken ,
     Apple Computer.

     Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) also voiced her
     support at a press conference in San Francisco:

          I am pleased to ad my voice to the growing
     international chorus of support for the pro-democratic
     movement in Burma. I also support the use of "selective
     purchasing" laws on the state and local level to assist
     Burma's pro-democracy activists in their fight for
     freedom..."

                              What Can You Do?

Send a fax message from our website to Willie Brown, Mayor of
San Francisco, urging that he make sure that the City enforce
its own laws and deny Mitsubishi this contract:

             http://www.ran.org/ran/info_center/aa/sf_alert.html

Mayor Willie Brown phone: 415/554-6141, fax: 415/554-6160
                   E-Mail: DaMayor@ci.sf.ca.us