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(DIR) Post #AnBpw7PrukkWjgq728 by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T06:59:28Z
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Did you know Chevron caused a huge climate disaster through dumping waste into the Amazon river, which experts call “The Amazon Chernobyl”, and then locked up the lawyer trying to fight against it? https://youtu.be/9OtIAZMqrZE
(DIR) Post #AnBq7VCTpHX5gc0OBM by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T07:01:32Z
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Chevron makes the mafia look like a charity organization.
(DIR) Post #AnBqQmJuOoWUHhfhAW by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T07:05:01Z
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Chevron, who through a coup controlled the Equadorian government for many years, got the government to sign a law called “The Act of Liberation”, which, although very much contradicting the name, made it impossible for anyone (especially indigenous people) to sue the oil company. They made it illegal to be sued.
(DIR) Post #AnBqs5jILLmSIhZNHk by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T07:09:56Z
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The lawyer representing the indigenous people had a 30 year legal battle with Chevron, and despite 54 independent judicial site inspections, resulting in 64,000 chemical sampling results (all of which showed evidence of pollution), Chevron's actions were never stopped.Because Chevron had 60 lawfirms and over 2000 lawyers working day and night to silence the indigenous people.
(DIR) Post #AnBs2sTk39swLM0B6W by thanius@mastodon.chuggybumba.com
2024-10-20T07:23:01Z
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@ErikUden I mean, if it was illegal to be sued, then the companies should do anything in their power not to perform actions in which will lead to lawsuits.(But I understand that it is illegal for the persons or organisations to bring the lawsuits, i.e. the opposition)
(DIR) Post #AnBvuexWpapRugGsS0 by Easydor@metalhead.club
2024-10-20T08:06:25Z
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@ErikUden I'm really thinking about: Wouldn't it been way more cheaper to dump the waste in a ecological correct way instead of paying thousands of lawyers over decades?This is so dumb and mean.
(DIR) Post #AnBwJDk3A5zGjug7O4 by dev_nadine@mathstodon.xyz
2024-10-20T08:10:48Z
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@ErikUden Wtf! omg I'm ecuadorian! how come do I get to know this by these means!?!?!?! could you please reply some sources of info? 😰😰
(DIR) Post #AnBwU3lMbSKQyaSejQ by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T08:12:50Z
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@Easydor the video has a very good explanation here: they do this all around the world. Paying the lawyers in one place in order to not set a precedent globally is much cheaper.
(DIR) Post #AnBxC80OBvecsKVERs by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T08:20:47Z
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@dev_nadine The video I mentioned lists all their sources, but the articles I've read before watching are...https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/17/chevron-amazon-oil-toxic-waste-dump-ecuador-boycotthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_DonzigerChevron claims to have never been involved in the country, but rather a subsidiary company TexPet (yet they still paid all the lawyers, did government lobbyism, etc. as they would've been legally liable)This article also explains how Chevron was able to prosecute Donziger (the lawyer) in a private court and put him in a private prison:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18122022/steven-donziger-chevron-ecuador-oil-pollution/I'd highly recommend watching the video as it puts both the historical colonialism (with slaves, genocide, etc.) into perspective with the neocolonialism (with lobbyism, coups, etc.) and U.S. government interference, as well as this specific case!
(DIR) Post #AnBxIK3WIiKBzEv9do by dev_nadine@mathstodon.xyz
2024-10-20T08:21:53Z
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@ErikUden Please tell me this is not a recent event. Our current president is this shitty corrupt immature rich asshole named #DanielNoboa who is really fucking us up (astronomically... like we are going through power looong cuts, up to 12 hours a day without energy) so I wouldn't be any surprised. I know we've been through this Chevron shit for over a decade or bit more now, but we haven't received any updates. Really pissed off right now.
(DIR) Post #AnBxfoekh9EjYLXRom by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T08:26:07Z
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@dev_nadine Not sure what you call recent! To be fair, the event is so recent, I'd call it “ongoing”. But it's been happening since the 2010s where the lawyer began representing the indigenous people.The video I linked has a bunch of sources in the description! I highly recommend you look into that!https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/17/chevron-amazon-oil-toxic-waste-dump-ecuador-boycotthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donzigerhttps://insideclimatenews.org/news/18122022/steven-donziger-chevron-ecuador-oil-pollution/
(DIR) Post #AnBxqvYXNkeo8aviHw by Easydor@metalhead.club
2024-10-20T08:28:07Z
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@ErikUden I should have watched it. 😬 Sorry
(DIR) Post #AnByko10bbgCy0tMae by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T08:38:15Z
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These are all the sources the video lists for you to learn more about Chevron's neocolinialism and oil pollution in Ecuador:On The Court Casehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/17/chevron-amazon-oil-toxic-waste-dump-ecuador-boycott https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/steven-donziger-chevron https://jacobin.com/2021/10/steven-donziger-loretta-preska-law-corruption-courts-corporate-influence https://www.reuters.com/article/chevron-ecuador-canada/chevrons-u-s-win-in-ecuador-case-looms-over-cases-elsewhere-idUSL1N0M21JC20140307/ https://www.courthousenews.com/wikileaks-shows-nascent-oil-woes-in-ecuador/https://www.muls.org/the-brief-online/the-persecution-of-steven-donziger-a-slapp-in-the-facehttps://chevroninecuador.org/assets/docs/2013-12-17-respondents-track-2-rejoinder.pdfhttps://scheerpost.com/2020/08/25/how-corporate-tyranny-works/https://www.thenation.com/article/society/donziger-chevron-documents/https://www.forbes.com/sites/morgansimon/2022/05/26/courts-are-not-a-weapon-how-corporations-like-chevron-use-the-law-to-get-their-way/https://www.wsj.com/articles/131-federal-judges-broke-the-law-by-hearing-cases-where-they-had-a-financial-interest-11632834421https://www.huffpost.com/entry/false-testimony-forced-ecuador_b_5600985https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-24/chevron-calls-star-witness-a-bribe-taking-former-judgehttps://ccrjustice.org/bowoto-v-chevron-murder-and-torture-nigerians-protesting-oil-companyhttps://thediplomat.com/2017/04/chevron-kem-leys-murder-and-cambodian-politics/https://thediplomat.com/2017/04/chevron-kem-leys-murder-and-cambodian-politics/https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/beverly-hills-high-school-oil-well-pump-fire/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/sludge-match-inside-chevrons-9-billion-legal-battle-with-ecuadorean-villagers-71779/https://www.desmog.com/2015/04/09/chevron-whistleblower-videos-show-deliberate-cover-oil-pollution-ecuador/https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/donziger-asks-judge-heed-un-experts-finding-arbitrary-detention-2021-09-30/https://www.courthousenews.com/lawyer-imprisoned-after-taking-on-chevron-finds-friends-at-high-court/https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/A_HRC_WGAD_2021_24_AdvanceEditedVersion.pdfhttps://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2021/01/20/donzigers-criminal-trial-is-postponed-once-again-as-his-motion-to-dismiss-counts-is-denied/?slreturn=20241002-31815Notes on Ecuadorhttps://truthout.org/articles/ecuador-s-legal-battle-with-chevron-foreshadows-global-corporate-coup-d-etat/https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/3619/1/B39_-_Oil_and_Politics_in_Ecuador_1972-1976.pdfBook: Open Veins of Latin America - Ecuardo Hughes Galeano Orphaned Oil Wellshttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-26-me-ooze26-story.htmlhttps://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/olive-street-reopens-after-oil-leak/article_17fa4773-13b6-5de3-8f94-f884d19c257c.htmlhttps://e360.yale.edu/features/the-oil-well-next-door-californias-silent-health-hazardhttps://lamag.com/lahistory/hidden-oil-wellshttps://environmentamerica.org/california/resources/mapping-the-risks-of-californias-idle-and-orphan-oil-wells/https://theconversation.com/las-long-troubled-history-with-urban-oil-drilling-is-nearing-an-end-after-years-of-health-concerns-198650
(DIR) Post #AnByqO5DvudeHHWcCG by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T08:39:16Z
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@Easydor no, don't apologize! I've also listed all sources here:https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113338842843992629
(DIR) Post #AnByrqxE4pJO6pU0rg by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T08:39:32Z
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@dev_nadine I've actually linked all sources here now:https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113338842843992629
(DIR) Post #AnByt3vjJng8duMNRg by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T08:39:46Z
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@dev_nadine more / all sources for these claims:https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113338842843992629
(DIR) Post #AnBz25v3IBsXPyLk8W by dev_nadine@mathstodon.xyz
2024-10-20T08:41:22Z
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@ErikUden I've read them all, and I'm aware of this all. I was asking about the "liberation act" thing. I haven't found that specific detail in any of the sources provided.. I may have missed something 😳
(DIR) Post #AnBzBUc4qm6obwxK08 by shellheim@social.linux.pizza
2024-10-20T08:43:04Z
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@ErikUden No way, you watch boy boy too!
(DIR) Post #AnC0Wo4LoAg4zKuKeW by kimwulff@krigskunst.social
2024-10-20T08:58:06Z
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@ErikUden The Amazon and the entire rainforest on the South American continent should not be played in at all, so if someone has made accidents or felled trees they should at least be condemned to ☘️ plant trees for the rest of their lives in the Amazon. #climate
(DIR) Post #AnC14droFLEzBzAwNc by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T09:04:12Z
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@dev_nadine This is the specific source the video used to cite the so-called “Act of Liberation”https://truthout.org/articles/ecuador-s-legal-battle-with-chevron-foreshadows-global-corporate-coup-d-etat/In the specific statement about the Act of Liberation it cites a now defunct webpage as a source.The reason the webpage is defunct is not because the article is offline, but because the redirection to the article is offline. Using the Internet Archive I have found that it originally forwarded to this - still online - link:https://therealnews.com/stories/empirefiles0815This is simply a YouTube video embed inside of a webpage, which is a documentary named “The Empire Files: Chevron vs. the Amazon” which you can watch here:https://youtu.be/MssnB31PmZINow, the documentary citing this somewhere in its 1.5 hour length is not good enough for me as a source, so I went looking with the keywords the “truthout.org” article used.It is true that the work was finished by 1998 and the government signed an agreement discharging the company from any other liability, as supported by an article published in The Economist. However, tests undertaken by different parties and organizations, including Chevron’s own, proved that the “remediation” was a fraudBy https://seeingthewoods.org/2017/05/18/environmental-injustice-the-case-of-chevron-texaco-in-ecuador/The Economist article mentioned can be read for free using the Internet Archive:http://web.archive.org/web/20201023034640/https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2009/05/21/justice-or-extortionThe work was done by 1998 and the government signed an agreement releasing Texaco from any further liability. Petroecuador was supposed to clean up the rest of the pits, but didn't do so, partly because it continues to use some of them (including Shushufindi 61).One site specifically mentions the foreign ministry doing so, here it is simply referred to as “the government” and sadly no further citation given.In this New York Times Article from 2009 the claim is repeated:https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/business/global/24chevron.htmlHere it is seen as a statement by Chevron themselves.So, if you want to find any more info, you need to find the specific agreement between Chevron / Texaco and the Ecuadorian government (possibly in 1998) about no longer being liable for any climate or social damages. Because it has existed, but I was not able to find the agreement (possibly due to a language barrier), and the best English language source claiming it does exist is Chevron themselves.I hope this helps at first!
(DIR) Post #AnC2D2Of1qWzXc6nSa by dev_nadine@mathstodon.xyz
2024-10-20T09:16:58Z
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@ErikUden Oh thanks very very much 🖤 I'll take a lool definitely, on all of this. I read some updates on this topic and the way Daniel Noboa is kinda ignoring it. However, it became clear to me why Noboa pushed international invesments laws full acceptance now. Thanks 🥲
(DIR) Post #AnC43dPMlZlJLI5BTs by gamblingblues@mastodon.online
2024-10-20T09:37:40Z
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@ErikUden BoyBoy 4evr
(DIR) Post #AnC4lwFm3rJCX1ioPQ by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-10-20T09:45:42Z
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It's kind of insane to learn that in the US a corporation can simply do the prosecution. A private criminal prosecution has been done a singular time in the history of the United States, and it simply allows for a corporation to decide who the judge is, who the jury is, and enact the law completely up to their own interpretation.In this case, the judge was a Chevron investor and the lawfirm he hand-picked for the private prosecution was paid by Chevron in advance of this “independent” trial.The U.S. government can simply give prosecutorial power to a private company. The U.S. government enacted sanctions on Ecuador when they tried to fine Chevron 9 billion USD for environmental damages, and Chevron prosecutes the lawyer representing indigenous people. One hand washes the other.
(DIR) Post #AnC5ilDOkFOLNleuXI by chessert@mastodon.online
2024-10-20T09:56:16Z
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@ErikUden Corporations are entirely a matter of law in the United States. It's not well known, but when the United States was founded, corporate law required that they be formed for one specific purpose (e.g. build a bridge over a specific river). Once that purpose was achieved, the corporation automatically ceased to legally exist.Automagically, no multinational super-corporate entities. Poof! You're done.
(DIR) Post #AnC7oLfWq1YVnWbomW by Sascha_Raubal@muenchen.social
2024-10-20T10:19:43Z
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@ErikUden Capitalism at its worst. Sick.
(DIR) Post #AnC82F46BfnhN3j67E by snaeqe@chaos.social
2024-10-20T10:22:14Z
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@ErikUdenWell this is basically the case in any cross-national Free Trade Agreements or alike. As neither sides public courts are..trusted by the other side(s), usually private courts are assigned for litigation, giving private companies not only their own jurisdiction, but submitting entire countries to such private jurisdiction, to be fined if some company o̶f̶ e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶r̶y̶ from the US finds the other countries government in violation of the FTA.
(DIR) Post #AnC82HlQ9Zdtk00iv2 by snaeqe@chaos.social
2024-10-20T10:22:14Z
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@ErikUdenThis was initially intended to protect investments made in countries with..less stable governments from eg being seized without compensation, but it's still in all such treaties even between well-established and long-term stable democracies.Can you spell #neocolonialism ?
(DIR) Post #AnCCfO8EoKLIbLaHk8 by MaierAmsden@mastodon.social
2024-10-20T11:14:07Z
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@ErikUden They call it a constitutional republic, but it's more of an ecocidal oligarchy. Sometimes the $hadow government takes the reigns for everyone to see. They don't care how obvious it is. Just try to stop them.
(DIR) Post #AnCIzEik6uc2vhVTUm by gavinisdie@masto.ai
2024-10-20T12:24:56Z
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@ErikUden we need to normalize Corporate Death Penalty
(DIR) Post #AnE2gvIGOK5WVyHpgm by Herman@mastodon.world
2024-10-21T08:31:47Z
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@ErikUden #bigoil are ecocidal criminals.
(DIR) Post #AnKcPD9e0a5vzlrteC by BjoernApfelwurf@mastodon.de
2024-10-24T12:40:15Z
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@ErikUden heißt das nicht Kev-lar ?