Causing a mens just drop in the amazon but they have sworn they will never pay what they owe also coming up well go to naomi caravan me with some other redacted stories and enders link for mind blowing old news about our National Anthem but 1st heres my interview with paul pozzi mean you know the associate director of amazon wants all thanks for joining me thank you so i have a lot of things i want to talk about lets start with the court case the indigenous in ecuador one of big court case some years back against chevron who had destroyed their land filled it with toxic chemicals refused to ever pay for the cleanup many have died from chevrons intentional negligence theyve now spent years running away from ever paying the billions of dollars that theyve been ordered to pay and now theyve even succeeded in getting a lawyer who. On the case for the indigenous steven dons are they theyve gotten him locked up on house arrest by using a corrupt judge in new york city so im wondering is this all i have in fame as it sounds and brit where it is very a case fan now yeah its more insane than it sounds because thats thats the surface and all of the unbelievable dirty tricks corruption lies bribery to mitigation and you could write volumes about the tactics that chevron has used all to try to escape from pain for what he did it to deliberately doing in the 1st place in the amazon and lets be clear this is a perfect example of environmental racism theres no way they would get away with doing this to white people in california but indigenous around people in ecuador they can deliberately poison them and never pay and turn it around and blame them and that is the textbook definition these people are suffering because chevron profit and what happened was in 2009 before the judgment was handed down in ecuador but after years of legal battle already the company said our strategy is going to be to demonize don singer and they knew that the evidence was so hard against them it was irrefutable it was still so voluminous that they could never run on the merits and their only strategy was lets target the new york lawyer and make this about some guy trying to get rich because they figured they could sell that story so they began over a decade ago trying to build a case to destroy Stephen Johns here and and wipe away any credibility of the case in the United States by saying you know this isnt ecuador the entire judicial system is corrupt all these people are just trying to get rich they were nippy later by this lawyer and they found a judge lewis kaplan in the Southern District of new york who was willing to play ball with them and helped chevron build a case that. Thats a classic slapp suit and the only reason chevron is doing what theyre doing now is because they fear that there was still be forced to pay for it otherwise theres no reason for them to spend money on lawyers to try to distort to destroy dancing or because steven along with allies like amazon watch and others are seeking to enforce that judgment outside the United States and because they continue to do their work sharon wants to silence him and people who work with him and thats why hes on house arrest so what it says to all of those who believe one you should try to work within the system is that even when you do large corporations like chevron are going to escape justice or denied justice by by simply ignoring it and to if you push to do that to go beyond that belt theyll shut down your life permanent well theyve frozen his Bank Accounts theyve put him on house arrest for now hes going on 11 months and theyve scared or intimidated people from working with him for from doing anything yeah it really does make a mockery of our legal system and shows how its rigged for the incredibly wealthy corporations if becoming a common tactic for a corporation to go after the lawyers who win the cases against them. Yeah yes it is and thats actually why hundreds of lawyers around the world are signing statements of support of steven dancing or because they see the writing on the wall this is a this is a very scary tactic for anyone working within the legal system to confront Corporate Power theres a group called the protect the protest coalition its a its a group of environmental and human rights organizations that came together after greenpeace was sued because of the Dakota Access pipeline protests and the same firm that worked for the trump ministrations sued them and you know made up this entire conspiracy about Climate Change saying that that these groups were conspiring to affect their business and they slapped them and they ultimately they won that case most of theyre still one charge and theyre fighting. But all those groups looked at each other and said we need to have each others backs because corporations are using this tactic more and more often to stop dissent to silence protest and to stop working is a system work yeah corruption all the way down. Explained briefly what chevron did in ecuador i guess it was texaco then and now its owned by chevron bought texaco explain exactly what they did in ecuador and i know that the c. E. O. Or the former c. E. O. Said it would be the hell would have to freeze over before they would ever pay the billions that they owe but they really did turn the amazon into held in that. Yeah so texaco was the very 1st welcome to true to drill in the amazon for oil it went there and then in the early 1960 s. They found that there was oil and there were during numbers on base they had and there was a very friendly u. S. Friendly oil friendly government in power at the time and they signed an agreement to exploit and drill for oil there they then spent over almost 2 decades drilling and deliberately dumping toxic drilling waters into the amazon the current the practice of the time in the United States by law and anywhere else is when you extract drilling waters before you get to the crude you have to put it in storage tanks and then reinjected into the earth because its got carcinogens other heavy metals and its destructive to the Environment Human Health because there was no law at the time this is the 1st oil company to drill they simply dug pits in the ground in the rain forest didnt even bother to mind them and dumped toxic waste there and they created almost a 1000 of those hits over the course of a couple decades they dumped 16000000000 gallons of toxic waste by far the largest oil related disaster in history about the size of manhattan. And they left it there and then in 1902 when their consortium ended texaco washed its hands and said were out now they signed a 40000000. 00 agreement with the very favorable government at the time saying oh well clean up a portion of these that we left behind and then what they do they spend 40000000. 00 to push dirt over top of them tell people that it was to live there and then they left and since that time theyve been saying this isnt our problem its the government of that problem we didnt we didnt do anything wrong and we took care of everything we did and thats whats been poisoning people and well over a 1000 people died from cancer and other illnesses since that time this has been in the dirt over the past reminds me of whenever you know exxon or or shell has an oil spill and they put the paper towels out because that dust will never tell that all that will solve the oil spill. Does slightly to slightly shift gears here weve heard a lot about the fires burning in the amazon it actually became a Mainstream Media story for one last year and its in brazil and other countries as well but it was on watch and said that the vast majority of the fires are intentional can you explain. Yes thats right so the process for what they call the fire season in brazil is a very this is a deliberate fire season this isnt because the Climate Changes and its hot and things catch fire fires happen because of arson and thats a process of forestation in order to graze cattle to gross or to de forest land for agricultural business so but so narrow the current president he encouraged and make a huge increase in deforestation in the amazon prior to last fire season and thats why the fires there were almost an 80 percent rise in fires last year and he has continued to do so and were expecting that unfortunately are going to be worse this season and its because large corporations are profiting from the commodities their beer that are being extracted and many of the fires since votes tomorrow took place are being set deliberately on it didnt hysteric tories as well which is that huge difference from prior years this is demarcated supposedly protected territory but he has been encouraging people to go onto those Indigenous Lands and set fires and balsam are basically gutted the brazilian version of the e. P. A. So theres nobody there to oversee and monitor illegal activity when it comes to setting fires and forcing lance because i think its an either or 90 percent reduction in capacity from for not and so that means no ones there to stop them from doing it and theyre encouraged to do more so were were terrified actually that the fires this year are going to be even worse than last year and last year 11000000 hectares were burned between brazil and bolivia because of fires also spread west into bolivia as well there was quite a lot of territory that was burned in those fires as well yeah it really is repulsive its. You know destroying our future to exploit something for the next couple years of it really is just sad and as you said it is environmental racism because as you say me here in the us they often turn. Put the pipelines or the corporate sacrifice zones in the areas of people that are not white that are poor and they tend to have less political power so they can fight back. What are the tactics that you guys and others are using to try and fight back and help the indigenous fight back in the amazon. Well in the case of brazil impulse on our own in the fire season what weve done is partner directly with a p. D. Which is the National Indigenous organization of brazil and then weve been issuing reports identifying whos really complicit in this destruction who are the corporations and the governments behind wilson are rose extractive and the profit that hes making many of them are in europe some of them are like jane b s. Beef and there are other corporations and banks so what weve done is issue reports both in english from fortys and then weve in the past when we could travel weve brought indigenous allies to confront directly main main in europe corporations and governments and ask them to prevent trade with brazil until they stop illegal before station or ask corporations to divest or not support extractive so there are Financial Institutions behind it large banks j. P. Morgan chase and then large Financial Institutions like black rock that are investing in the companies that are extracting commodities theyre the ones who are pushing the forestation and the burning boats america has as in a way hes made it easy for some because like tromping so outward with his racist attacks and the kind of vitriol that he spews that Indigenous People makes it easy for people who are i guess on the fence to say right we clearly dont have to do with this guy hes essentially involved in a genocide of Indigenous Peoples who are our hope is that one hes isolated himself so much and that to the world attention to the fires last season will actually really spur more action this year from those financial backers to back off and not support the forestation thats leading to the fires and in the western hours on were talking about mining and Oil Extraction ecuador just suffered the Worst Oil Spill in the coca river that its had in in over a decade and its still polluting that row. Or theyve got communities that are isolated because of the virus they cant fish because their waters have been polluted by an oil spill and yet they cant leave in order to get food and many communities are facing starvation so weve been supporting emergency relief effort to get communities the kind of support they need to be able to ride out the clean up of this bill and push the government to actually take action to do it and then again same thing identify who are the financial backers behind this Oil Extraction a lot of it is china there are Chinese Companies that have been striking western amazon while china tries to present it has a good image on climate reducing coal adventure its been expanding oil drilling in the western amazon for years and then there are other Oil Companies thats welsh laine Oil Companies that are drilling in peru we identify those companies and then whos investing them black markets in the in that comes up once again theyre the largest financer of Climate Change really on the planet and theyve made some lip they pay some lip service to changing the policy to adapt to climate and to Pay Attention to the climate effect but its just the beginning so we need to continue pushing them to actually make some real changes and i think it is starting to hurt chevrons brand this case in ecuador imam and i really do see it everywhere so hopefully thatll eventually get to the point that they back off because you know no one sees the chevron brand and think oh yeah wonderful how much theyve done for us lets hope we can see that day. For people that want to help out to or be a part of fighting back for the amazon is amazon watch dot org the best place to go. And as i watched oregon on the chevron case theres a site called make chevron clean up dot com where you can take an action right now directed at the us congress and Justice Department specifically related to what theyre doing to stephen dunn is here because this persecution of human rights lawyer is it is a dangerous precedent for anyone whos fighting Corporate Power whether it be chevron or black or any other group so we really need to rally together to protect his rights in order to protect all of our rights to fight back. Absolutely thank you so much paul thank you for if you go to a quick break but really fast i want to let you know that the full redacted tonight episodes are available on the free streaming app portable t. V. 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