Biden needs to sanction MOGE

Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, organized citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”

The Myanmar military receives about half of its funding from oil and gas revenues. Cutting this flow of blood money from the oil companies Chevron, Total, and Posco is crucial to ending the army’s reign of terror. This is also fundamental to what No Business with Genocide strives to do.

You proved that right when you successfully pressed luxury jeweler Harry Winston to stop buying gems from Myanmar. This week, let’s stay focused on the oil companies Chevron, TotalEnergies, and POSCO. Together, we can stop the funding to MOGE (Myanmar oil and gas enterprise).

President Biden has the authority to impose sanctions on the oil and gas industry in Myanmar but so far has not. You can read about that in the Wall Street Journal. If you want to let him know you want the U.S. to sanction MOGE, you can go here. We have a second petition — Governments of the United States and France — stop blocking sanctions on Myanmar gas revenues.

U.S. Faces Pressure to Sanction Myanmar’s Lucrative Energy Industry

The oil-and-gas industry is the main source of revenue for the military, which seized power in a coup earlier this year