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Arabica Robusta

Going Back to My Pueblo | The Democracy Center - 0 views

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shared by Arabica Robusta on 11 Jul 10 - Cached
  • So now the U.S. has become a nation of people driving around in gas-guzzling vehicles listening to the radio and cursing the evildoers at BP.  The addicts are cursing their dealer on their way to their next fill-up.
  • I sat for a coffee (another of my addictions) with one of my heroes, Antonia Juhasz, a longtime activist on oil issues.  Antonia quickly jumped into the fray on the Gulf disaster, to help people understand the bigger picture.  When she showed up in Houston a week ago for the Chevron shareholders’ meeting (legally entitled as a shareholder) Chevron had the Houston police throw her in jail for 24 hours.  Have a look at the coverage of the arrests on Democracy Now.
  • While in San Francisco I was invited to speak at a progressive conference that made me uneasy.  It was an expression I heard there actually that got to me.  Over and over people would describe the gathering as, “a safe space to talk about…” whatever the thing was they wanted to talk about.  I finally realized what people meant by the term “safe space” – a venue in which one could express a point of view and not have its basic assumptions challenged. 
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  • People on the left sometimes like gatherings like these, where people’s definitions of justice and freedom are pretty much the same.  The Cochabamba Climate Summit was like this.  On the right activists like such gatherings as well, as one can witness with the rise of the Tea Party.  We divide ourselves into similar camps in the news sources we seek – aficionados of the Huffington Post safely separated from the viewers of Fox News.  Actually, I think we need right now is less “safe spaces’ and more risky ones. 
  • Ronald Reagan liked to say that the most terrifying words in the English language were, “I am from the government and I am here to help.”  Now those have been replaced with, “I am from a large global corporation and I know what I am doing.”  For the left, attacking the company is as easy as munching on a yogurt-covered pretzel.  For the right it is becoming an acquired taste, as evident by today’s hearings in Congress.
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    So now the U.S. has become a nation of people driving around in gas-guzzling vehicles listening to the radio and cursing the evildoers at BP.  The addicts are cursing their dealer on their way to their next fill-up.
Arabica Robusta

The Chevron Pit: After 18 Years Of Waiting, Justice Is Served! - 0 views

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shared by Arabica Robusta on 20 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • the victory could be short-lived. Last week a panel of international arbitrators in The Hague granted Chevron a preliminary injunction that could block the plaintiffs' efforts to enforce the judgment.
  • Meanwhile, Chevron is using the U.S. courts, in hopes of never paying anything at all. The company sued the plaintiffs and their lawyers in the U.S., where a federal judge recently issued a temporary stay blocking the plaintiffs' American lawyers from seeking to enforce any judgment.
  • Chevron has also sued the country of Ecuador under the terms of a trade agreement between it and the U.S.
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  • Even if Chevron never has to pay, the ruling could worsen what has already been a public relations nightmare for the oil giant when all oil companies are under added scrutiny in the wake of last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Few legal experts expected the case to get this far. The plaintiffs first sued Texaco in New York in 1993. Texaco, and later Chevron, successfully argued that the case should instead be heard in Ecuador, which was then run by a government seen as friendly to American business interests.
  • In 2007, however, Ecuador elected as president Rafael Correa, who has publicly supported the plaintiffs' cause. Chevron accuses the left-leaning government of interfering in the case, a charge the government denies.
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Chevron Guilty | The Price of Oil - 0 views

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shared by Arabica Robusta on 19 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Pablo Fajardo, the lead Ecuadorian lawyer for the plaintiffs said the judgement was “a great step that we have made towards the crystallisation of justice”, but added the fine was too small – far below the $27.3bn sought by the plaintiffs – and they may appeal. He added that his team would now “take whatever actions appropriate” and “consistent with the law” to press for payment.
  • They added: “Chevron has spent the last 18 years waging unprecedented public relations and lobbying campaigns to avoid cleaning up the environmental and public health catastrophe it left in the Amazon rainforest. Today’s guilty verdict sends a loud and clear message: It is time Chevron clean up its disastrous mess in Ecuador.”
  • Ironically Chevron’s share price actually rose 1.3 per cent on the news, meaning that investors believe that Chevron will never pay.
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