This Labor Day weekend was a big one for Sacramento Area residents supporting the campaign to boycott the Chevron corporation for its complicity in the genocide in Gaza and its role in environmental devastation across the globe, from the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador to Richmond, California.
On Friday, August 29, 2025, 4-6 pm, on the Sutterville overpass over I-5 in Sacramento, community members in Sacramento joined in a coordinated highway banner action called for by West Coast Boycott Chevron to demand Chevron Corporation cut ties with Israel over its ongoing genocide in Gaza and apartheid in the West Bank.
The campaign calls on Chevron to immediately end its supporting role to the Israeli military. “The West Coast coordinated highway banner action amplifies calls made by local organizers across the country for individuals and institutions––such as universities and churches––to boycott and divest from Chevron because its profits come at the cost of genocide, apartheid, and the climate crisis,” according to a statement from the group…