Chevron: The Parasite Who Wants to Take Over Its Host

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 1:00pm
CDT
Steven Donziger, Marty Garbus & Andres Soto

As the COP 26 meeting approaches and real action on climate change is demanded world-wide, the fossil fuel industry's power – in this case Chevron Oil – is on display in New York City where a Chevron-backed judge Loretta Preska is persecuting the lawyer Steven Donziger who won a $9.5 billion settlement against Chevron for killing, poisoning and contaminating 30,000 indigenous people in Ecuador's Amazon jungle. The harms are appalling.

Also appalling is treatment of lawyer Donziger who won a settlement in an Ecuadorean court after a fifteen-year long Kafkaesque legal battle. With leadership by Ecuadorean lawyer Pablo Fajardo, Donziger won the historic settlement. But Chevron, having accepted Ecuadorean jurisdiction, has since decided it won't pay. In fact, Donziger is being held under house arrest on contempt charges in his Manhattan apartment and faces a six month prison sentence before his appeal of the charges is heard. This jailing of a citizen before his/her appeal is even heard is a display of corporate power unprecedented in legal history.

FOR UPDATES ON THE CASE AND TO SUPPORT DONZIGER'S DEFENSE,
GO TO HTTPS://FREEDONZIGER.ORG.

“Crude” - a 2009 documentary of Chevron victims' contamination struggle (with Chevron's counter-testimony) – is easily found on YouTube. Searches of Steven Donziger's name easily unveil more information. As public outrage grows, the fossil fuel industry realizes its time is up. Saving the planet demands shutting down the entire petroleum industry before it kills us all. Indigenous Ecuadoreans dying of cancer from contamination was enough. The industry's continued killing for profit, then covering it up, is being called to account. Chevron is part of a thanatocracy – rule of elites who tolerate death for profits – aimed at all humans. But extracting profit at the cost of humans, animals, plants and the entire eco-system that makes planet Earth our habitat is no longer morally acceptable.

Upcoming Events

Monday, September 8, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Vijay Prashad
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal

Note: This program is rescheduled from August 11.

We surely live in interesting times--from the deepening of U.S.-led militarism to existential ecological and economic crises to shifts in the world order ranging from a significant decline of the Global North along with the rise of the East and Global... Read more

Monday, September 22, 2025 - 1:00pm
CST
Rebecca Grant
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende

Award-winning author Rebecca Grant discusses her latest book--Access, Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom. Access charts the reproductive freedom movement... Read more

Monday, October 13, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Film Screening
Followed by discussion with Brad Rockwell
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende

2025 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary

Remarkable largely unknown footage of a dramatic turning point in world history covering events over three continents concerning a tragic coup in the Congo. Featuring: Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy... Read more