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From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Amazon rivers on fire from the company's oil sludge - Chevron's
URL: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a35812573/steven-donziger-chevron-house-arrest/
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Steven Donziger: Facing sentencing, I just saw this video of decades of Chevron's toxic dumping in Ecuador — with Amazon rivers literally on fire from the company's oil sludge. Chevron's crimes deserve harsh punishment. So why am I the one facing prison after 2 years of detention? Sickening.. Steven Donziger: Mar 18 BREAKING: @Esquire just published a deep-dive interview with me about the Chevron forces driving my 600-day house arrest without trial. @NYTimes and other major media outlets: your silence is becoming a statement. https://twitter.com/SDonziger |
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From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: judge w/tied to Chevron shouldn't be sentencing lawyer who won $9.5b
URL: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/chevron-judge-loretta-preska-steven-donziger.html
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Steven Donziger Judge Preska should recuse herself from my Chevron-financed prosecution. A judge with ties to @Chevron should not sentence the lawyer who won a $9.5b judgement against Chevron. Wrong. Where is the Congressional investigation? *** excerpt from link: "After spending more than 700 days under house arrest, a human rights and environmental lawyer was found guilty last month of criminal contempt in a legal saga that has demonstrated the deep-rooted conflicts of interest layered throughout the judicial system when it comes to climate justice. In Steven Donziger’s conviction, the initial judge who referred him to trial, the second judge who was asked to lead the trial, and the private prosecutors who tried him all had deep ties to Chevron, the company Donziger had won a landmark multibillion-dollar ruling against. The story began in 2011 when Donziger brought litigation against Texaco (now Chevron) in Ecuador for the harm it caused the Indigenous people in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the fossil fuel company decided to deliberately discharge 16 billion gallons of toxic waste from its oil sites into rivers, groundwater, and farmland. A refusal from Chevron to adhere to environmental regulations—which earned the company an extra $5 billion over 20 years—led to more than 30,000 Ecuadorians being directly harmed by the oil giant’s actions, the judges in that case found. The case Donziger led made it all the way to the Ecuador Supreme Court, and successfully secured $9.5 billion in environmental damages for the Amazonian communities in a historic climate justice decision." |
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