Pressurepoint
5215 Ballard
Ave NW #2
Seattle, WA 98107
Phone:
206-297-0891
Email:
info@pressurepoint.org
Website:
http://www.pressurepoint.org
Description: Direct action group
aimed at
"calling out corporate power"
and to "target the fossil fuel business."
Internet-savvy protest organizer. Stunts and confrontation. Linked to
Ralph Nader
networks (Green Party, PIRGs), and Greenpeace.
Pressurepoint is a shell
non-profit Washington corporation
with no
reported income. It is not a 501(c)(3) exempt
organization and files no IRS Form 990. UBI Number 602 123 869, incorporated 5/24/2001, license expires
5/31/2002. It has not existed long enough to file an annual report
with the Washington Secretary of State.
The donation page of the Pressurepoint website is linked to
Fiscal
sponsor:
Downwinders At Risk, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
corporation acting as a pass-through for donations to Pressurepoint.
No
funders can be identified.
Pressurepoint was created by
Chris Doran, Stop Exxon
Mobil National Campaign Coordinator, now
relocated to Greenpeace in Washington, D.C.
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1996-1999: Doran was an
anti-mining campaigner for the Wilderness Society of
Australia (not affiliated with the Wilderness Society in the U.S.)
in Sydney.
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November/December
1999: arrested and held 4 days in jail for participating in
Seattle WTO riots.
Read his
message to fellow activists.
-
Earth
Day 2000 coordinator with Earth Day
Network of Seattle.
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Attended the Global Greens Gathering in
Canberra, Australia in April 2001
where he helped win approval of a direct
action focus on Exxon Mobil.
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May 2001: Hung banner with
David Cobb of Texas
Green Party at Exxon Mobil annual shareholders
meeting in Dallas, chanted "Exxon Mobil stop killing
for oil." Both men were escorted out and released.
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Incorporated
Pressurepoint May 24, 2001. Doran headed
a 7-person board of directors with authority over
Pressurepoint’s programs.
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Doran was
coordinating council member Green Party
of Seattle.
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Doran’s
mentor in forming Pressurepoint was Patrick Mazza,
researcher and writer with Olympia, Washington-based Climate
Solutions, a project of Earth Island Institute (San Francisco).
Mazza is a member of Pressurepoint's Board of Advisers.
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April, 2002: Leave
of absence from Pressurepoint to work on the Campaign Exxon Mobil
initiative for
Greenpeace in Washington,
D.C.
His e-mail
address is:
chris.doran@wdc.greenpeace.org
His address is: Chris Doran in c/o Greenpeace 702 H Street NW,
Washington DC, 20001 p: (202) 462-1177 fax: (202) 462-4507.
Pressurepoint's
"climate justice campaigner" is Katherine Lo, aka "Kat
Lo."
Unconfirmed reports indicate that Lo is a student from Hong Kong
now studying at Yale University in Connecticut and not located in
the Seattle area.
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