PERSONAL
1) Don't buy Waste Management related products.
2) Cut out and post the STOP WASTE MANAGEMENT card in a
convenient place (refrigerator, bulletin board, etc.) or fold and put in your
wallet or purse.
3) Educate yourself about the Waste Management (WMI)
businesses.
4) Write letters to the editor against Waste Management
businesses.Try to relate the letter to current local issues.
5) Meet with staff and officials of governments or businesses to
discourage
them from condoning or doing business with WMI.
6) Don't use Blockbuster Video, Tru Green/Chem Lawn, Terminix, Merry
Maids or American Home Shield, MacMillan/Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster,
Paramount Pictures, or VIACOM theme parks.
7) Write the new WMI President John E. Drury, 1001 Fannin, Suite 4000, Houston, TX 77002
and protest their racism and anti-environmentalist actions.
INSTITUTIONAL
1) Find out Waste Management business service agreements with
government, business, or non-profits institutions. Meet with officials to
end these
agreements.
2) Visit your county and/or state "solid waste"officer and
their advisory committee members regarding possible illegal activities by WMI or to end
business ties to WMI.
3) If you are in a position to make institutional decisions,
stop doing
business with WMI (Waste Management, Wheelabrator, Rust Intl), Servicemaster,
Blockbuster, VIACOM and its many businesses.
EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZING
1) Copy our flyers or alter them to your needs. Attach your name as the
local
contact.
2) Purchase the resource materials that can assist you (available at
cost).
3) Purchase Waste Management studies and materials from
Citizens
Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste, PO Box 6806, Falls Church, VA 22040 -
703-237-
2249. Read WASTE MANAGEMENT INC. by Charles Cray (Greenpeace); GIANTS OF GARBAGE by Harold Crooks, 1993; DYING FROM DYOXIN by Lois Marie Gibbs, 1995; and TOXIC SLUDGE IS GOOD FOR YOU by John Stauber, 1995. For an interesting history of Wayne Huizenga read THE MAKING OF A BLOCKBUSTER-BUSTER by Gail DeGeorge,
1995.
4) Organize a group and localize these materials to your
local issues in the
African-American, Hispanic, environmental, legal, governmental or union
community.
5) Connect with unions that face privatization, outsourcing,
membership losses
(AFSCME and other service unions). They may oppose WMI because institutions
that
contract out to SERVICEMASTER often use nonunion or lower paid workers.
6) Go to your library or a lawyer and get your state code (in Ohio it is
called
the Ohio Revised Code) on "Bad Boy" laws. Also find Corporation Law and who signs permit for a corporation to do business in your state. Such permits are often revoked for small companies. "Bad Boy" laws make it illegal
for
government to do business with companies like WMI with major convictions.
"Bad Boy" laws usually are filled with loopholes, but the laws can be used to
shield
politicians when they make good decisions to stop WMI contracts.