4 members of Anti-Capitalist-Action targeted the Histon Road garage in Cambridge on Friday. 2 people stood in the middle of the road offering leaflets while two people stood on the pavement holding a banner. The leafletting tactic worked quite well - lots of cars slowed down and unwound their windows to take the leaflets.

At the end we still had some leaflets so we put them in random letter boxes and stuck them behind people's windscreen wipers.

Histon road was also targetted by the People & Planet and Greenpeace student groups the following day (Saturday). While their campaign is based on Esso's environmental record (eg the fact that they invest nothing in renewable energy, the fact that they deny global warming, and the fact that they provided 91% of George W Bush's election funds in return for the US not signing the Kyoto Protocol), we chose to also focus on..

* The human rights abuses in which Esso has been complicit throughout the world,

* The dirtiness of the oil business in general,
including information on BP and Shell,

and,

* How this fits in with the bigger picture of Capitalism and how it consitently never fails to prioritise corporate profits above human rights, quality of life and the environment.

I think the following non-violent tactic ought to be
considered:

In the time of these stopesso days, people must have found an esso garage owner who's views strongly matches exxon's.

Instead of one day where everyone thins out and targets many garages on one day and doesn't make a difference at all, enough of a group of volunteers could coordinate and target this one garage day after day until there's a result. Pick a battle you can win and win it.