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Today is World Indigenous Peoples Day!
YOU can help hold Chevron accountable for poisoning the rainforests and peoples of the Amazon. Indigenous communities in Ecuador are calling for your urgent support in the critical campaign to hold Chevron accountable for its “rainforest Chernobyl”— an ecological and human catastrophe created by the company's spilling of more than 19 billion gallons of toxic wastewater and 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into pristine rainforest areas.
Dear Friend of the Amazon and Indigenous Peoples,
Today is World Indigenous Peoples Day!
Demand Justice for Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon!
YOU can help hold Chevron accountable for poisoning the rainforests and peoples of the Amazon. Indigenous communities in Ecuador are calling for your urgent support in the critical campaign to hold Chevron accountable for its “rainforest Chernobyl”— an ecological and human catastrophe created by the company's spilling of more than 19 billion gallons of toxic wastewater and 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into pristine rainforest areas. After 20 years of operation, Chevron (formerly Texaco) spilt 30 times more oil than the Exxon Valdez disaster. More than 30,000 people are affected and are calling on the company to fund a cleanup. Read more info.
HOW YOU CAN TAKE ACTION:
1. DONATE to Amazon Watch's Clean Up Ecuador Campaign today to help fund our solidarity pressure campaign focused on Chevron. Help fund important upcoming actions including bringing members of affected communities to the company's hometown to demand cleanup and medical aid!
2. CONTACT Chevron's CEO Mr. David O'Reilly and urge him to do the right thing by cleaning up the toxic mess in Ecuador and compensating the affected communities. Pledge not to buy gasoline from Chevron until the company takes appropriate action!
3. SHARE this email with your friends. Ask them to honor World Indigenous Peoples Day by supporting Amazon Watch and Indigenous Peoples in the fight to hold Chevron accountable for its toxic legacy.
Indigenous communities need your help to to take action for justice. Find out more about how you can support Amazon Watch's Clean Up Ecuador Campaign.
Thank you for your support.
Thanks,
Atossa Soltani,
Executive Director
Amazon Watch
One Haight Street, Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94102
http://www.amazonwatch.org
Today is World Indigenous Peoples Day!
Demand Justice for Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon!
YOU can help hold Chevron accountable for poisoning the rainforests and peoples of the Amazon. Indigenous communities in Ecuador are calling for your urgent support in the critical campaign to hold Chevron accountable for its “rainforest Chernobyl”— an ecological and human catastrophe created by the company's spilling of more than 19 billion gallons of toxic wastewater and 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into pristine rainforest areas. After 20 years of operation, Chevron (formerly Texaco) spilt 30 times more oil than the Exxon Valdez disaster. More than 30,000 people are affected and are calling on the company to fund a cleanup. Read more info.
HOW YOU CAN TAKE ACTION:
1. DONATE to Amazon Watch's Clean Up Ecuador Campaign today to help fund our solidarity pressure campaign focused on Chevron. Help fund important upcoming actions including bringing members of affected communities to the company's hometown to demand cleanup and medical aid!
2. CONTACT Chevron's CEO Mr. David O'Reilly and urge him to do the right thing by cleaning up the toxic mess in Ecuador and compensating the affected communities. Pledge not to buy gasoline from Chevron until the company takes appropriate action!
3. SHARE this email with your friends. Ask them to honor World Indigenous Peoples Day by supporting Amazon Watch and Indigenous Peoples in the fight to hold Chevron accountable for its toxic legacy.
Indigenous communities need your help to to take action for justice. Find out more about how you can support Amazon Watch's Clean Up Ecuador Campaign.
Thank you for your support.
Thanks,
Atossa Soltani,
Executive Director
Amazon Watch
One Haight Street, Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94102
http://www.amazonwatch.org
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NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY TO CHEVRON ON 10-12,
Indigenous Peoples Day!
2005-10-12
For more information: Leila Salazar-Lopez
Clean Up Ecuador Organizer
Amazon Watch
415-487-9600 ext. 1
http://www.chevrontoxico.com
Join us in celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day by taking action on Wednesday, October 12th. Join Amazon Watch, Amnesty International and concerned people all across the U.S. in standing in solidarity with Amazonian indigenous communities as they work to protect their traditional lands and hold Texaco (now Chevron) accountable for environmental and cultural destruction.
CALL CHEVRON ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY!
On October 12, Indigenous People's Day, join Amnesty International and Amazon Watch in a NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY to Chevron's Executives, Mr. David O'Reilly (CEO and Chair of the Board) and Mr. Peter Robertson (Vice Chair of the Board).
***CALL 925-842-3232 or 925-842-1000***
***Tell them to respect the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon and clean up the environmental contamination left on the lands of the Cofan, Secoya, Siona, Huaorani, and Kichwa peoples.
***Tell them that you are concerned about the contamination that continues to pollute the waterways that indigenous people depend on for daily survival, such as drinking, bathing, and fishing.
***Tell them that you are concerned about the cultural survival of the indigenous peoples of the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. The Cofan, for example, number less than 800 people in their entire tribe.
***Tell them that as long as Chevron denies its responsibility to fully remediate the Ecuadorian Amazon, you will not buy any Chevron or Texaco products and will encourage others to join you.
As you may know, the judicial inspections in the case against Chevron in Ecuador are underway. Since August 2004, Judge Novillo and technical experts have been visiting former Texaco wells, stations, formation water waste sites, remediated waste sites and environmentally degraded wetlands. As a result, evidence of extreme contamination in soil and water samples has been reported in the lab reports presented to the judge. Chevron’s own investigators have confirmed the existence toxic pollution: 75 of 77 water samples taken by Chevron surpass Ecuadorian contamination norms, for example. Inspections will be taking place on October 12-13 at wells # 18 & 23 in Shushufindi.
We need your help to keep the pressure on Chevron until the company accepts its responsibility to clean up the Amazon and compensate the affected communities.
TO TAKE FURTHER ACTION:
***Write to Mr. David O’Reilly via:
http://www.chevrontoxico.com/action.php?action=1
***Write to Chevron's Board of Directors via:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/business/sharepower/chevron_direct_letter.html
JOIN US FOR THESE UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE BAY AREA:
On Indigenous Peoples Day, October 12, join Amazon Watch, Amnesty International, San Ramon Cares, and others in reaching out to Chevron employees at lunch time. It’s important for Chevron employees to become informed about Chevron’s legacy in the Amazon.
Where: Chevron World Headquarters in San Ramon
6001 Bollinger Avenue (off I-680)
When: Wednesday, October 12, 11am-1pm
For carpooling info call: 415-487-9600 ext. 1
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51st ANNUAL CHEVRON CONSERVATION AWARDS
Friday, October 28, 2005
5pm
Chevron's World Headquarters in San Ramon
You are invited to join us in reminding Chevron that Texaco's toxic legacy is ever-present in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon.
According to Chevron, it is North America's oldest, privately sponsored conservation award. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by organizations to the conservation of natural resources.
More information to follow.
-------------------------------
SAVE THE DATE! NOVEMBER 10th
Honoring Nigerian scholar and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Protest at Chevron's World Headquarters with Amnesty International!
Amnesty International's Western Regional Conference is November 11-13
in San Francisco.
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The San Francisco Arts Commission Presents:
Crude Reflections:
ChevronTexaco's Rainforest Legacy
Photographers: Lou Dematteis & Kayana Szymczak
Arts Commission Gallery
San Francisco City Hall (Lower Level)
Opening Reception: November 16 from 5:30-7:30
Amazonian Leaders will be present.
Exhibit runs Nov. 14-Dec. 30, 2005
The exhibit chronicles the impact of ChevronTexaco' s oil pollution in Ecuador, and efforts by local communities to seek justice. Using testimonies alongside portraits, Bay Area photographers Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak, assisted by journalist Joan Kruckewitt, have uncovered the physical and emotional reality of those affected by toxic contamination 30 times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill.
View exhibit online at http://www.chevrontoxico.com
For more information contact Amazon Watch: (415) 487-9600
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More Background on Texaco's impacts on indigenous peoples in the Oriente:
As the judicial proceedings continue in the multi-billion dollar case against Chevron in Ecuador, indigenous peoples continue to suffer as a result of the environmental contamination left by Texaco. Texaco conducted its oil operations in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon from 1964-1992. As a result of Texaco's operations...
· Five indigenous tribes have been negatively impacted by Texaco’s oil operations – the Cofan, Secoya, Siona, Huaorani, and the Kichwa. The Tetetes, a Huaorani clan, are now extinct.
· Since the Ecuadorian government gave Texaco access to the Oriente, these tribes have seen their land invaded by oil company workers and colonists. This land, that they once depended on for subsistence (drinking water, eating fish, hunting), is now so polluted that the tribal members have been forced to abandon their ancestral lands.
· The Cofan, on whose traditional territory Texaco built its first oil well in 1971, once numbered 15,000, but since then their numbers have been reduced by 98 percent and now number less than 800 (Amazon Crude 1991).
Indigenous Peoples Day!
2005-10-12
For more information: Leila Salazar-Lopez
Clean Up Ecuador Organizer
Amazon Watch
415-487-9600 ext. 1
http://www.chevrontoxico.com
Join us in celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day by taking action on Wednesday, October 12th. Join Amazon Watch, Amnesty International and concerned people all across the U.S. in standing in solidarity with Amazonian indigenous communities as they work to protect their traditional lands and hold Texaco (now Chevron) accountable for environmental and cultural destruction.
CALL CHEVRON ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY!
On October 12, Indigenous People's Day, join Amnesty International and Amazon Watch in a NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY to Chevron's Executives, Mr. David O'Reilly (CEO and Chair of the Board) and Mr. Peter Robertson (Vice Chair of the Board).
***CALL 925-842-3232 or 925-842-1000***
***Tell them to respect the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon and clean up the environmental contamination left on the lands of the Cofan, Secoya, Siona, Huaorani, and Kichwa peoples.
***Tell them that you are concerned about the contamination that continues to pollute the waterways that indigenous people depend on for daily survival, such as drinking, bathing, and fishing.
***Tell them that you are concerned about the cultural survival of the indigenous peoples of the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. The Cofan, for example, number less than 800 people in their entire tribe.
***Tell them that as long as Chevron denies its responsibility to fully remediate the Ecuadorian Amazon, you will not buy any Chevron or Texaco products and will encourage others to join you.
As you may know, the judicial inspections in the case against Chevron in Ecuador are underway. Since August 2004, Judge Novillo and technical experts have been visiting former Texaco wells, stations, formation water waste sites, remediated waste sites and environmentally degraded wetlands. As a result, evidence of extreme contamination in soil and water samples has been reported in the lab reports presented to the judge. Chevron’s own investigators have confirmed the existence toxic pollution: 75 of 77 water samples taken by Chevron surpass Ecuadorian contamination norms, for example. Inspections will be taking place on October 12-13 at wells # 18 & 23 in Shushufindi.
We need your help to keep the pressure on Chevron until the company accepts its responsibility to clean up the Amazon and compensate the affected communities.
TO TAKE FURTHER ACTION:
***Write to Mr. David O’Reilly via:
http://www.chevrontoxico.com/action.php?action=1
***Write to Chevron's Board of Directors via:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/business/sharepower/chevron_direct_letter.html
JOIN US FOR THESE UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE BAY AREA:
On Indigenous Peoples Day, October 12, join Amazon Watch, Amnesty International, San Ramon Cares, and others in reaching out to Chevron employees at lunch time. It’s important for Chevron employees to become informed about Chevron’s legacy in the Amazon.
Where: Chevron World Headquarters in San Ramon
6001 Bollinger Avenue (off I-680)
When: Wednesday, October 12, 11am-1pm
For carpooling info call: 415-487-9600 ext. 1
--------------------------------------------------
51st ANNUAL CHEVRON CONSERVATION AWARDS
Friday, October 28, 2005
5pm
Chevron's World Headquarters in San Ramon
You are invited to join us in reminding Chevron that Texaco's toxic legacy is ever-present in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon.
According to Chevron, it is North America's oldest, privately sponsored conservation award. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by organizations to the conservation of natural resources.
More information to follow.
-------------------------------
SAVE THE DATE! NOVEMBER 10th
Honoring Nigerian scholar and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Protest at Chevron's World Headquarters with Amnesty International!
Amnesty International's Western Regional Conference is November 11-13
in San Francisco.
------------------
The San Francisco Arts Commission Presents:
Crude Reflections:
ChevronTexaco's Rainforest Legacy
Photographers: Lou Dematteis & Kayana Szymczak
Arts Commission Gallery
San Francisco City Hall (Lower Level)
Opening Reception: November 16 from 5:30-7:30
Amazonian Leaders will be present.
Exhibit runs Nov. 14-Dec. 30, 2005
The exhibit chronicles the impact of ChevronTexaco' s oil pollution in Ecuador, and efforts by local communities to seek justice. Using testimonies alongside portraits, Bay Area photographers Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak, assisted by journalist Joan Kruckewitt, have uncovered the physical and emotional reality of those affected by toxic contamination 30 times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill.
View exhibit online at http://www.chevrontoxico.com
For more information contact Amazon Watch: (415) 487-9600
---------------------------------------------------------------------
More Background on Texaco's impacts on indigenous peoples in the Oriente:
As the judicial proceedings continue in the multi-billion dollar case against Chevron in Ecuador, indigenous peoples continue to suffer as a result of the environmental contamination left by Texaco. Texaco conducted its oil operations in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon from 1964-1992. As a result of Texaco's operations...
· Five indigenous tribes have been negatively impacted by Texaco’s oil operations – the Cofan, Secoya, Siona, Huaorani, and the Kichwa. The Tetetes, a Huaorani clan, are now extinct.
· Since the Ecuadorian government gave Texaco access to the Oriente, these tribes have seen their land invaded by oil company workers and colonists. This land, that they once depended on for subsistence (drinking water, eating fish, hunting), is now so polluted that the tribal members have been forced to abandon their ancestral lands.
· The Cofan, on whose traditional territory Texaco built its first oil well in 1971, once numbered 15,000, but since then their numbers have been reduced by 98 percent and now number less than 800 (Amazon Crude 1991).
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