Write a Letter to General Electrics Largest Stockholders
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To ensure that the stockholder proposal at General Electric is successful, please write to the following large GE stockholders and urge them to vote in favor of the proposal.

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General Electric's top 10 Wall Street shareholders
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Fidelity Research & Management
82 Devonshire Street
Boston MA 02109
Attn: Eric Roiter

Barclays Bank PLC
54 Lombard Street
London EN EC3P 3AH
United Kingdom
Attn: Vivien Lin

State Street Corporation
225 Franklin Street
Boston, MA 02110
Attn: Frederick P. Baughman

Vanguard Group Inc.
100 Vanguard Blvd.
PO Box 2600
Valley Forge, PA 19482
Attn: Raymond J. Klapinsky

Putnam Investment Managment Inc
One Post Office Square
Boston, MA 02109
Attn: Nancy Fisher

Mellon Bank Corp.
One Mellon Bank Center, Room 0980
Pittsburgh, PA 15258
Attn: Jacqlyn D.Stein

JP Morgan Chase & Co.
270 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Attn: Anthony Horan

Janus Capital Corp.
100 Fillmore Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80206
Attn: Heidi J. Walter

Taunus Corporation
31 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Attn: Damian Reitemeyer

TIAA-CREF Investment Management LLC
730 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017-3206
Attn: Richard Schlefer

GE's largest public pension fund investors
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TIAA CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association & the College Retirement Equities Fund
730 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017-3206
Attn: Richard Schlefer

CALPERS (California Public Employees Retirement System)
400 P Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Attn: Denise M. Arend

New York State Common Retirement Fund
AE Smith State Office Building, 6^th Floor
Albany, NY 12236
Attn: John E. Hull

California State Teachers Retirement System
7667 Folsom Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95816-3749
Attn: John Petzold

State Board of Administration of Florida
1801 Hermitage Boulevard, Suite 100
Tallahassee, FL 32308
Attn: Tom Herndon

Michigan Department of Treasury
P.O. Box 15128
Lansing, MI 48901
Attn: Vernon L. Johnson

State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio
275 East Broad Street
Columbus, OHG 43215
Attn: Stephen A. Mitchell

SAMPLE LETTER TO GENERAL ELECTRIC'S LARGEST STOCKHOLDERS
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Eric Roiter
Fidelity Research & Management
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109

Dear Mr. Roiter:

This year, shareholders of General Electric Company (GE) have sponsored a ballot proposal that asks the company to establish a firm policy to renounce future involvement in antipersonnel landmines and cluster bomb production. I urge you to vote Fidelity's GE shares in favor of this proposal. [If you own shares in a Fidelity mutual fund, be sure to note that you are writing as a client as well.]

Each year, approximately 20,000 people are killed or maimed worldwide by landmines. Landmines are used principally as weapons of terror. They are strategically buried to block access to land and water resources, which has the effect of impoverishing populations as well as maiming and killing civilians. Eighty percent (80%) of landmine victims are civilians, and 20-30% are children.

The vision of a landmine-free world has caught the imagination of the world's peoples and their governments. One hundred thirty-nine countries have signed the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, and 110 nations have ratified it. The Treaty calls for a total ban on use, production, stockpiling and transfer of antipersonnel landmines. The U.S. was one of the world's biggest exporters of landmines until 1992. Our country observes an export ban, but the position of the new Administration on the landmine treaty is not clear, and we have not acceded to the treaty.

Former U.S. military commanders assert that, like poison gas, antipersonnel landmines are not essential to the effectiveness or safety of our forces. For example, in February, Generals James Hollingsworth and Henry Emerson, who both served in Korea, stated in a Washington Times Opinion Editorial that they believe the U.S. should join the Mine Ban Treaty because ap mines endages our own forces. In a recent meeting with Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Secretary of State Colin Powell indicated that landmines would be included in the current administration's comprehensive review of U.S. defense policy.

Adopting the anti-landmine pledge would not threaten General Electric's business strategy, as the company has not engaged in landmine component production in nearly a decade.

For all of these reasons, please vote Fidelity's shares in support of this important proposal. Tell GE to take a firm stand in support of this humanitarian and achievable campaign on behalf of innocent civilians worldwide.

Sincerely,

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