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May 26, 2011

Activists Confront Chevron at Shareholders Meeting 
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Activists from communities adversely impacted by Chevron spoke out
Wednesday at the oil giant's annual shareholders meeting. The activists
traveled from areas worldwide, including Ecuador, where a court has
ordered Chevron to pay up to $18 billion for for dumping billions of
gallons of toxic oil waste into the rain forest. A number of speakers
took the microphone to question Chevron CEO John Watson. Kenneth Davis,
a resident near a Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California, said,
"People are dying… You steal from all over the Earth, then you process
what you have taken in Richmond."



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