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Chevron Down as It Continues to Fight $27B Environmental Lawsuit in Ecuador
24 August 2010 | FOXBusiness
Despite tripling its second quarter profit last month, Chevron has since fallen nearly 2.46%, as it remains under the grip of a $27.3 billion lawsuit, the largest environmental damages lawsuit ever tried. More »
Ecuador's Oil-Waste Victims Share Solidarity
2 July 2010 | Daily Comet
Luis Yanza traveled nearly half way around the world this week only to find that oil companies use the same toxic practices and treat indigenous people in the United States the same as in Ecuador. More »
Ecuador Tribe in Rare Visit to Help Clean-Up Lousiana Oil Spill
30 June 2010 | Al Jazeera
There has been a rare offer of support from an indigenous community from Ecuador for another indigenous tribe in Louisiana that has been affected by the spill. Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler joined the Ecuadorians in Louisiana's Bay Baptiste. More »
Was Oil Named 'Crude' Because of the Way Oil Companies Do Business?
8 June 2010 | Huffington Post
Let me leave it to you; which is it? "Couldn't be" or "certainly possible"? The recent BP crisis could be called the greatest of "natural" disasters. Natural for a company that had already received 760 citations for "egregious, willful violations," accounting for "97% of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry..." according to the Center for Public Integrity, as quoted by Frank Rich in this past Sunday's New York Times. More »
Disaster in the Amazon
4 June 2010 | The New York Times
BP's calamitous behavior in the Gulf of Mexico is the big oil story of the moment. But for many years, indigenous people from a formerly pristine region of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador have been trying to get relief from an American company, Texaco (which later merged with Chevron), for what has been described as the largest oil-related environmental catastrophe ever. More »
Joe Berlinger vs. Chevron: Why We Must All Defend Independent Filmmaking
4 June 2010 | Huffington Post
Filmmakers like Joe Berlinger fulfill a crucial role in today's society by providing independent information on pressing contemporary human rights and social issues. Their success as storytellers depends on access to those men and women willing to talk on camera. If the subjects of those documentaries are fearful of the ramifications of telling the truth then the filmmaker has no story. More »
Activists Arrested at Chevron Shareholders' Meeting
26 May 2010
Five activists were arrested at the Chevron annual shareholders' meeting in Houston, Texas. Activists and people from affected communities from across the US and countries such as Ecuador, Angola, Kazakhstan and Canada had traveled to Texas to make their voices heard. Despite the fact that they arrived holding valid proxy passes to attend the meeting, nearly the entire delegation was denied entry. More »
Activists Rally at Chevron's Houston Offices During Shareholders' Meeting
26 May 2010 | Houston Business Journal
An international group of activists alleging human rights abuses and environmental destruction on the part of Chevron Corp. was poised to rally in front of the energy company's Houston offices on Wednesday. More »
Protesters Accuse Chevron of Human Rights, Environmental Abuse
25 May 2010 | Houston Chronicle
An international group of activists alleging human rights abuses and environmental destruction on the part of Chevron Corp. was poised to rally in front of the energy company's Houston offices on Wednesday. More »
Chevron Sues Over 'Crude'
A documentary's unused footage, akin to reporters' notes, should be protected
20 May 2010 | Los Angeles Times
Journalism that serves society does not always spring from objectivity, nor is it always written from a distance. When Upton Sinclair exposed the conditions of Chicago's meat industry, he did so on assignment from a socialist newspaper. He went to work in grim stockyards and returned with "The Jungle." The result was a revolution in food safety and the founding of the Food and Drug Administration. More »
