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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Zennie: The Lies That Destroy Your Credibility
Last week our friend and pro-Chevron blogger Zennie Abraham at zennie2005.blogspot.com took a page from Chevron's talking points and went on yet another ill-informed rampage against the 30,000 rainforest residents suing Chevron. The point of Zennie's rant? That one of the lawyers for the Amazonian communities supposedly "destroyed" the case against...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Democracy Now Reports on Journalist Exposé of Chevron’s Ecuador Spy Scandal
Yesterday, Democracy Now! covered Chevron's attempt to hire a journalist to turn corporate spy to undermine the rule of law in Ecuador. Mary Cuddehe, the journalist who turned down the offer and exposed the effort in The Atlantic magazine, appears, along with Han Shan, Coordinator of Amazon Watch's Clean Up Ecuador Campaign.Take a look at the film...
Monday, August 16, 2010
Chevron’s “Wild Distortions” Eviscerated in Court Filing
A legal paper filed in U.S. Federal Court last week by the plaintiffs taking on Chevron over its toxic contamination in Ecuador filed an explosive legal memo that finally shines some light on Chevron's consistent mischaracterizations of heavily edited, out-of-context film footage that the company has used to make hyper aggressive allegations of fraud....
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Chevron’s Secret Agent In Ecuador: Meet Sam Anson of Kroll
Last week The Atlantic Magazine, in an article by American journalist Mary Cuddehe, exposed the latest element of Chevron's world-wide campaign to escape liability for illegally dumping toxins in Ecuador: a bona fide corporate...
Monday, August 9, 2010
Chevron P.R. Campaign Gets It Wrong Again
Last week Chevron's P.R. mavens were at it again – this time spinning out a number of carefully edited and selected outtakes from the documentary "Crude" to as part of an all-out assault on the lawyers for the 30,000 Ecuadorians suing the company for destroying an area of the rainforest the size of Rhode Island. Chevron is trying to intimidate the...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Chevron Breaks Promise to U.S. Courts, Misrepresentation Campaign Continues
As predictable as ever, Chevron has violated another promise made to a U.S. federal court – this time just days after it was made by Gibson Dunn lawyer Randy Mastro. Last week Mastro (the former Deputy Mayor to Rudy Giuliani who is now Chevron's lead lawyer in the Ecuador litigation) promised the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that the oil giant wouldn't...
Chevron Outed for Corporate Espionage Spy Scandal in Ecuador’s Amazon Rainforest
Chevron's latest desperate attempt in its effort to avoid a potential $27.3 billion liability for illegal dumping in Ecuador's rainforest? The company has taken to trying to hire journalists in an unethical attempt to derail the litigation. Take a look at the below press release from the Amazon Defense Coalition explaining the company's entanglement...
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