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Bears boycott Plano-based Cinemark over CEO’s support for Proposition 8
November 14th, 2008The San Francisco MovieBears — a Bay Area movie group for bears, cubs and their admirers — is boycotting Plano-based Cinemark Corp. over CEO Alan J. Stock’s support for Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in California. Stock, a member of the Mormon church, contributed $9,999 to a political action committee supporting Prop 8. Cinemark also operates the Century, CinéArts and Tinseltown Theater chains. San Franisco MovieBears also notes that according to Forbes, Stock’s annual income is $7.9 million, meaning his tithing to the church would be $790,000 per year. The Mormon church has been widely blamed for passage of Prop 8, because it encouraged members to make financial contributions to PACs supporting the ban. All told, Mormons are believed to have contributed $22 million to PACs supporting Prop 8, or 77 percent of the total they raised. According to the San Francisco MovieBears Web site, the group also has chapters in Seattle, London, Cincinnati, Fort Lauderdale, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Phoenix and Chicago.
“We need to teach corporations that if they want to encourage homophobia and hate in the state of California — or any state — that they can pay for it fiscally across the United States, or in any place that they operate. We need your help to do that,” the San Francisco MovieBears said in an e-mail distributed to members nationwide.
UPDATE: Click here to read the latest from The Los Angeles Times about boycotts of Cinemark and other businesses over their support for Prop 8. Also, AmericaBlog actually deserves credit for breaking this story.
November 14th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
If you’d like to let Alan know your thoughts on the matter:
Alan Stock, Chief Executive Officer
Cinemark
3900 Dallas Parkway – Suite 500
Plano, TX 75093-7869
(972) 665-1000
astock@cinemark.com
And if you *really* want to get their attention, start contacting the Cinemark board of directors (who are essentially Alan Stock’s boss) and let them know how Alan’s action is going to affect their company’s bottom line which they have a fiduciary responsibility to protect. Emails and direct phone numbers where known:
Lee Mitchell, Chairman
Cinemark
3900 Dallas Pkwy – Suite 500
Plano, TX, 75093-7871
(972) 665-1000
lmitchell@cinemark.com
Benjamin Chereskin, Managing Director
Madison Dearborn Partners
3 First National Plaza
70 W Madison St – Suite 3800
Chicago, IL 60602-4342
(312) 895-1310
bchereskin@mdcp.com
Carlos Sepulveda, President
Interstate Battery System of America
12770 Merit Dr – Suite 400
Dallas, TX 75251-1296
(972) 991-1444
carlos.sepulveda@ibsa.com
Raymond Syufy, President
Cinemark Holdings
150 Pelican Way
San Rafael, CA 94901-5550
(415) 448-8400
r_syufy@centurytheatres.com
Enrique Hernandez, Managing Director
Allen & Company
711 5th Avenue
9th Floor
New York, NY 10022
(212) 832-8000
Vahe Combalagian
Madison Dearborn Partners
70 W Madison St – Suite 4600
Chicago, IL 60602-4342
(312) 895-1000
vcombalagian@mdcp.com
Peter Ezersky
Quadrangle Captial Partners
375 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10152
(212) 418.1700
peter.ezersky@quadranglegroup.com
Roger Staubach, Executive Chairman
The Staubach Company
15601 Dallas Pkwy – Suite 400
Addison, TX 75001-6055
(972) 361-5001
rogerstaubach@staubach.com
Donald Soderquist
Cinemark Holdings
3900 Dallas Pkwy – Suite 500
Plano, TX, 75093-7871
(972) 665-1000
dsoderquist@cinemark.com
Steve Rosenberg, CEO
Centego Marketing
4965 Preston Park Blvd – Suite 190
Plano, TX 75093
(972) 985-2500
srosenberg@centego.com
November 17th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
No thanks, Boycotting a company for the act of one guy is a dumb idea. We need to bring people to our cause not run them off with stupid stunts like this. IMO
November 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I gotta agree with David on this one. Boycotting the whole company for the CEO’s action is probably not going to accomplish much of anything. Why not go after the big guns who were behind Prop. 8 instead of a peripheral player.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
i heard a rumor that there’s a free screening of Milk at the Angelika on Dec. 4th.
They are going to be serving milk and cookies, should be mayjah!!!
November 25th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
He’s not a random bigot working for the company. He’s the CEO. This boycott should be followed by anyone who cares about protecting marriage and families. Follow the example of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and Mahatma Gandhi; don’t fund the people attacking the constitution and the concept of equality before the law.
December 5th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
David H. couldn’t be more wrong. Look at that BOD — these are cronies who put one of their ideological own in that CEO job — the Cinemark company is not your friend. If they were, they’d have donated to an overturn Prop. 8 group to make amends for their CEO and signal that he is not speaking for the company with his donation. They have not. Instead, they’ve put out responses referring to “sexual preference” that signal that they’re on the side of those who would deny us civil marriage equality on the excuse that they believe our sexual orientation to be a choice. (Not that sexual orientation genus should matter when the subject is equal access to a fundamental right, mind you!)
Being good little girls and boys will not save us. War was declared against us long ago and the fight is now on. Either help lead it, follow and help, or get the heck outta the way.