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DESCRIPTION:Thursday, May 29th, 2008  7pm:  \n\nCrude Reflections Book Launch at the 
 Exposure Gallery\n801 Howard St. (in the Wolf Street Senior Housing Center, 
 near the corner of Fourth Street.) \nJoin the authors/photographers Lou 
 Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak and a special delegation from Ecuador. View 
 the Crude Reflections photo exhibit and hear the authors talk about their 
 work. Book signing.\n\n\n\nMore about Crude Reflections, forthcoming 
 from City Lights Publishers:\n\nCrude Reflections/Cruda Realidad: Oil, Ruin 
 and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest documents Goldman Environmental 
 Prize winners Luis Yanza and Pablo Fajardo’s campaign for justice in 
 Ecuador. \n\nCrude Reflections chronicles the human and environmental 
 impact of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the pollution is so 
 extensive that medical experts currently predict thousands of deaths from 
 cancer and the disappearance of five indigenous rainforest communities. 
 Community leaders and doctors already report elevated rates of cancer in 
 the region, as well as birth defects. \n\nIn April, a court appointed 
 consultant in Ecuador claimed that Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2001, 
 failed to clean up billions of gallons of toxic wastewater produced by 
 Texaco. "Chevron inherited Texaco's legacy in Ecuador," said Mitch 
 Anderson, of Amazon Watch, the environmental advocacy group. "This report 
 validates most of the assertions the plaintiffs have been making for many 
 years.  Chevron, is responsible for an environmental disaster in Ecuador 
 that had implications for public health, in order to make a 
 profit."\n\nPhotographers Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak have documented 
 the physical and emotional reality of those affected by this toxic 
 contamination, roughly 30 times greater than the more widely reported Exxon 
 Valdez spill.  Book includes a foreword by Trudie Styler and Sting, 
 co-founders of the Rainforest Foundation.\n\nThe case will be decided by 
 the end of this year.\n* * *\n\nHIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOS FROM THE BOOK ARE 
 AVAILABLE\nSEE PHOTOS AT: 
 http://www.chevrontoxico.com/article.php?id=110\n* * *\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/06/18497482.php
SUMMARY:Crude Reflections Book Launch at the Exposure Gallery
LOCATION:801 Howard St. (in the Wolf Street Senior Housing Center, near the corner 
 of Fourth Street.) 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/06/18497482.php
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