United Methodists are responding to Kairos Palestine: A Moment of Truth ,a statement of faith and urgent call to action from Christians in Palestine. UMKR seeks, through nonviolent means and in partnership with Palestinian Christians, freedom, justice and equality for all Palestinians and Israelis.
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SEE ALSO
UMKR's first letter to Chevron, July 2024
On this page: UMKR's letter to Chevron with Petition Signatures, Feb. 2025
Chevron's response to UMKR, July 2025
UMKR's reply to Chevron Letter, September 2025
See the UMKR statement to Chevron:
https://umkr.salsalabs.org/chevron-stopfuelinggenocide/index.html
You can still add your name! When we have a good showing of more signatures, we will send those to Chevron.
Actions/Campaigns
Chevron Boycott:
UMKR Letter to Chevron with Petition Signatures, February 2025
Mr. Mike K. Wirth
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Chevron Corporation
5001 Executive Parkway, Suite 200 San Ramon, CA 94583, USA
Dear Mr. Wirth,
United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR), a denomination-wide justice movement in the global United Methodist Church, has joined the #BoycottChevron coalition, as we informed you in 2024 we would be doing. We are encouraging United Methodists to support and participate in the boycott until Chevron ends its complicity in human rights abuses in Palestine.
We encouraged the involvement of United Methodists in the days of action targeting Chevron, January 31 through February 2, 2025. You probably are aware of the many actions taken last year and this year, from Australia to Northern Ireland, from New York City to Houston, TX, your new headquarters: Chevron stations have been picketed, highway banners were hung, campaigners delivered letters to your DC offices, and Jewish activists chained themselves to your office in Herzliya, Israel.
In coordination with these actions, UMKR recently organized a statement, which reads in part: “We condemn Chevron’s role in fueling Israel’s apartheid and the ongoing genocide in Palestine and will support the boycott until Chevron ends its complicity in these human rights abuses in Palestine.”
See the full statement and the signatories attached to this letter. We have received over 550 signatures on that statement. These signatures are the tip of the iceberg of the thousands of United Methodists and others who are learning about this boycott from our church movement and gaining a new perspective on Chevron.
As we consider what the Palestinians of Gaza are facing today – mourning the loss of hundreds of thousands through genocidal warfare, disease, and starvation, coping with a massive military power next door that is regularly violating the fragile ceasefire, and contemplating the overwhelming task of reconstruction of their homeland in the midst of Israeli and U.S. calls for their continued ethnic cleansing and annihilation – we recognize that Chevron is complicit in this suffering and destruction.
We call on your company to disassociate from the apartheid regime of Israel.
Sincerely,
Lisa Bender and Carol Garwood
Co-chairs of the Steering Committee
United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR)