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DESCRIPTION:Peace Action of San Mateo County will follow up on its March presentation 
 of Antonia Juhasz from the Global Exchange Chevron Program. On Sunday, May 
 16, we will screen the documentary film “Crude – The Real Price of 
 Oil”, which deals with a lawsuit of Chevron Corp. by 30,000 residents of 
 the Ecuadorean rainforest. \nIn 2001 Chevron merged with Texaco, which had 
 for three decades contaminated and polluted water, air and land in the 
 region. The result of Texaco’s handiwork, according to the indigenous 
 plaintiffs, was a preponderance of disease, and destruction of their way of 
 life. They thus chose to hold the parent company Chevron ultimately 
 responsible.\nProducer and Director Joel Berlinger created “Crude”, 
 which runs 104 minutes, with a cinema veritè style, using a backdrop of 
 both the affected rainforest and the courtroom, among other settings. The 
 amazing scenery of the rainforest – including contaminated sections – 
 contrasts the film’s depiction of a courtroom drama in real life. 
 Berlinger trained his camera on players on all sides of the conflict to 
 tell the story as thoroughly as possible. \nThe film’s web site says it 
 “focuses on the human cost of our addiction to oil and the increasingly 
 difficult task of holding a major corporation accountable for its past 
 deeds.” The film’s release last year – it premiered at the Sundance 
 Festival in January 2009, and screened later at the San Francisco, Boston 
 (where it received a Grand Jury Prize) and Human Rights Watch Film 
 Festivals, among others – brought a heretofore little-known lawsuit to a 
 much wider scope of attention. On Sunday, May 16 PASMC will bring it to 
 your attention.\nThe film showing takes place at 7 PM in Beck Hall at the 
 Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo, 300 E. Santa Inez (at Ellsworth) in 
 San Mateo. Admission is free, and refreshments will be on hand. Beck Hall 
 is wheelchair accessible.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/02/18646673.php
SUMMARY:Screening of documentary film "Crude--The True Cost of Oil"
LOCATION:Beck Hall, Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo\n300 E. Santa Inez Avenue 
 (at Ellsworth), San Mateo, CA  94401
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/02/18646673.php
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