ACTION ALERT
Support the anti-landmine proposal at General Electric!


Background

General Electric produced landmine components for over a dozen years, and is still considered by the U.S. Defense Department to be one of several "potential sources of supply" for them.1

To date, nineteen out of 47 companies have taken the pledge to refuse any future production of landmines2. General Electric (GE) is the most prominent corporation to refuse to adopt this pledge.

This spring, General Electric's shareholders will vote on a stockholder proposal asking the company to establish a firm policy to renounce future involvement in antipersonnel and cluster bomb production.

What You Can Do

  1. If you own stock in GE, be sure to vote in support of our proposal. Look for your proxy ballot in the mail starting in March. (If you don't usually receive corporate ballots, the company may be sending them to your broker or investment manager, and you will have to instruct them to vote for this proposal or send you the ballot.)
  2. Write a letter or send an e-mail directly to GE in support of the proposal. Click here to take action
  3. Whether or not you are a GE stockholder, help us urge the company's largest stockholders to support the proposal. Their support is critical! Click here to take action.
  4. Send us your proxy cards! We will present them to management at the stockholder meeting.

Notes

1See Exposing the Source: U.S. Companies and the Production of Antipersonnel Landmines, Human Rights Watch Arms Project Report, April 1997, Vol. 9, No. 2 (G), which can be viewed at www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/mines/index.html.
2The seventeen companies that have told Human Rights Watch that they will no longer be involved in antipersonnel landmine production are: ASC Capacitors (Nebraska), AVX Corp. (South Carolina), Compensated Devices, Inc. (Massachusetts), Dyno Nobel, Inc. (Utah),86 Hughes Aircraft (Virginia),87 Kalmus and Associates, Inc. (Illinois), Kemet Corp. (South Carolina), Mathews Associates, Inc. (Florida), MascoTech (Michigan),88 Microsemi Corp. (Arizona), Motorola, Inc. (Illinois), Olin Ordnance (Florida),89 Plastics Products Co., Inc. (Minnesota), S&K Electronics (Montana), Siliconix, Inc. (California), S W Electronics & Manufacturing Corp. (New Jersey), and TLSI, Inc. (New York). Ibid.


 

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For more information on the Mine Ban Treaty and countries that have ratified it, contact the International Campaign to Ban Landmines www.icbl.org