News and Multimedia from 2008

After Record Year, Chevron Faces the Music

28 May 2008 | Contra Costa Times

Despite a record-setting financial performance in 2007, Chevron Corp. faced a fusillade of criticism about its operations in several countries.     More »

Letter from the President of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions

28 May 2008 | U.S. Labor Against the War

We call upon the governments, corporations and other institutions behind the ongoing occupation of Iraq to respond to our demands for real democracy, true sovereignty and self-determination, free of all foreign interference.      More »

Chevron AGM 2008 Action

Chevron AGM 2008 Action

28 May 2008

In a dramatic face-to-face showdown at Chevron's annual general meeting, victims of the company told shareholders and senior executives that it must live up to its corporate rhetoric on human rights and the environment and make amends to the communities it has devastated.     More »

Activists Blast Chevron on Human Rights, Environment

28 May 2008 | Associated Press

Activists took advantage of the gathering at Chevron headquarters in San Ramon to blast the oil giant for alleged environmental and human rights abuses in Ecuador, Nigeria and Myanmar. Outside, protesters in white protective suits waved broom-shaped "Clean Up Chevron" signs at the company's front entrance.     More »

Rising Tide of Human Rights Abuses Haunts Chevron on Eve of Annual Shareholder's Meeting

Communities from Nigeria, Ecuador, Burma and US to Confront CEO David O'Reilly in San Ramon; Billions in Potential Liability
27 May 2008 | Amazon Watch / Asian Pacific Environmental Network / EarthRights International

Representatives from Ecuador, Nigeria, and Burma have traveled to the Bay Area to confront Chevron CEO David O’Reilly at an annual shareholder’s meeting over what they call a “grave pattern of human rights abuses” in their home countries that could lead to billions of dollars of liabilities for Chevron shareholders.     More »

Chevron Should Stop Hiding Behind Bogus PR Campaigns & Use Record Profits to Clean Up Its Toxic Wastes

21 May 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Chevron should stop hiding behind its bogus public relations campaign about protecting the environment and start putting its record profits to work by cleaning up the billions of gallons of toxic waste it deliberately­ dumped into Ecuador's rainforest, causing hundreds of deaths to indigenous peoples.     More »

Sample Letter Supporting Chevron Boycott

This is a sample letter you can send to your city council urging it to boycott Chevron products in protest of the company's atrocious human rights and environmental record on four different continents, including its continued denial of responsibility for a public health crisis in Ecuador.     More »

Chevron vs. The Goldman Environmental Prize

Chevron vs. The Goldman Environmental Prize

30 April 2008

Video from the Weiser Group about the Goldman Award Ceremony and press conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.     More »

Rebuttals to Wall Street Journal Editorial

26 April 2008 | Wall Street Journal

In April 2008, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial that uncritically accepted Chevron's misleading account of the litigation against it in Ecuador.      More »

Chevron Is to Blame for Ecuador's Oil Pollution

Letters to the editor
26 April 2008 | The Wall Street Journal

Letters to the editor by Steven Donziger, Luis Gallegos and Atossa Soltani .     More »

 

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