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DESCRIPTION:\nFilm evenings begin with potluck refreshments and social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nCRUDE:  THE REAL PRICE OF OIL\nby Joe Berlinger\n\n This is a film 
 about the famous class-action lawsuit involving Big Oil and the indigenous 
 people of Ecuador –  some 30,000 indigenous people of Ecuador vs. 
 Chevron.  The Texaco/Chevron oil corporation was drilling for oil in the 
 pristine jungles of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador from the 1960s to the 
 1990s.  Big Oil always wants to make a fast buck — so it actually prefers 
 drilling for oil in rainforests in the most economic way:  the water 
 contained in the crude oil is simply spilled into the rivers and streams, 
 without any preliminary treatment.  The gas is burned, since this is 
 considered to be “cheaper” than conducting it to an end user.  The 
 result is that the water, the soil, and the air are contaminated, poisoning 
 the people living in the area, and producing cancers on a massive scale. By 
 the time Texaco/Chevron was kicked out of Ecuador in the 1990s, the 
 corporation had left behind in the Ecudorean forests hundreds of toxic 
 waste pits, many of which were designed to drain polluted water into nearby 
 rivers and streams.  Many of those poisonous waste pits have remained open 
 for years, despite the fact that poor people in the Amazon forest region 
 live near these rivers and streams and depend on them to live.  In this 
 eye-opening film you can see scientists and lawyers for Big Oil look the 
 camera straight in the eye and lie about the toxic effects of petroleum 
 drilling and dumping in the environment.  At the same time you can see 
 indigenous Amazonian tribes struggling to hold on to what little they have 
 left in the “dead zones” of the Amazon rainforest where Chevron/Texaco 
 once ruled supreme and see the strength of these people as they seek to 
 stay alive in their traditional homes without getting poisoned on a daily 
 basis by oil and petroleum waste.\n\nThis film is a David and Goliath story 
 told through interviews with both the corporate lawyers and the indigenous 
 people.  It shows the indigenous hero, Pablo Fajardo, and his lawyers on 
 one side, and the coporate lawyers and scientists for Chevron on the other. 
  The indigenous people tell their own story in their own words from their 
 own homes in the Amazon tropical rainforest.  These people are indeed poor 
 but before Texaco/Chevron contaminated their world, they had everything 
 they needed to live a simple life abundant with gifts from nature.   Pablo 
 Fajardo is a humble man from a fiscally poor but morally wealthy family 
 taking on one of the most complicated cases in history and coming out 
 ahead.\n\nThis film could easily have been made in Colombia (Uwa), or in 
 Nigeria (Ogoni), and in many other places where Big Oil has done its 
 devastation.  Ecuador was fortunate to elect a President who cannot be 
 bought off so that this lawsuit involving Texaco/Chevron was not a slam 
 dunk in its favor.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th 
  Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/03/18676233.php
SUMMARY:Crude: The Real Price of Oil
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/03/18676233.php
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