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DESCRIPTION:In May 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.\n\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.\n\nProducer and Director Joel Berlinger created "Crude", which 
 runs 104 minutes, with a cinema verite 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. \n\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.\n\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 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/09/18647487.php
SUMMARY:Screening of Documentary Film 'Crude--The Real Price of Oil'
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo\n300 E. Santa Inez\nSan Mateo, CA 
 94401\n\nhttp://www.uusanmateo.org/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/09/18647487.php
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