DoomsdaysCW#StevenDonziger: The man who stood up to an oil giant, and paid the price
Rex Weyler
26 February 2020
"The link between #ecological protection and #HumanRights is evident in #Ecuador’s #Amazon basin, where massive #OilPollution has destroyed #forests and #farms and left some of the world’s poorest people with #BirthDefects and a #cancer epidemic. In 1993, Ecuador’s Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía (FDA), representing 30,000 victims of #Chevron’s toxic oil waste, asked Donziger to help them win compensation for what is likely the largest oil-related human disaster in history."
#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #FreeDonziger #PardonDonziger
#BigOil #BigEnergy #Chevron
Steven Donziger: The man who stood up to an oil giant, and paid the price - Rex Weyler - Greenpeace International
"I did not set out to be an environmental lawyer. I simply agreed to seek a remedy for 30,000 victims for the destruction of their lands and water; to seek care for the health impacts; and to help them restore their Amazon ecosystem and basic dignity. I did not expect the lengths that Chevron would go to to attack me personally, attack my family, attack their victims, and defy a legal judgement."