#Steven Donziger

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My name is Steven Donziger. I’m a human rights lawyer who was locked up in the United States for close to three years after I worked with Amazonian communities to hold Chevron to account for creating one of the world’s worst environmental disasters.

For three decades, Chevron dumped billions of gallons of cancer-causing oil waste into the rivers and streams of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. 

This produced a devastating environmental catastrophe that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Indigenous peoples and farmers. Even today, Indigenous communities continue to face imminent risk of death due to exposure to Chevron’s toxic waste.

After years of litigation, we won a landmark legal battle that resulted in Chevron being ordered to pay $10bn in damages – the largest judgement ever awarded in an environmental lawsuit.

But they haven’t yet paid out one cent.

Instead, Chevron hired 60 law firms and hundreds of lawyers to try to destroy me. They sued  me personally in New York for $60 billion - more liability than any bank or fossil fuel company had ever faced. 

[nando161mando]

Boy Boy: The Environmental Disaster No One Knows About | Chevron's destruction of the Amazon, and Steven Donziger's private prosecution and incarceration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtIAZMqrZE

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Can people please reblog if you can't donate? We need Biden to get this man pardoned.

[gwydionmisha]

More information:

[arthropooda]

As 2,000-pound bombs crash down on crowded refugee camps in Gaza, the seismic reverberations are increasingly being felt on campuses throughout the United States. “When a 2,000-pound bomb hits the ground, the earth turns to liquid,” Marc Garlasco, a military expert, told The Washington Post. “It’s like an earthquake.”

On October 11, a boxy white truck pulled up in front of the main entrance to Harvard University, a black wrought iron gate adorned with a stylish Georgian Revival wreath. Attached to the truck’s sides and back were three garish billboard-style LED screens displaying the images of dozens of students. Beneath their faces were the words “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites” and the putative URL “HarvardHatesJews.com.”

The doxxing truck was sponsored by the right-wing group Accuracy in Media and its targets were students who had signed a letter sponsored by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee. “Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum,” it said. “For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to ‘open the gates of hell,’ and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced.” Leaving Harvard, the truck began a McCarthyite search and destroy mission, driving to the homes of each of the students to out their locations and ruin their future job prospects. Some of those targeted would later receive death threats while others worried about what might come next, with at least one losing a job offer. “I have my career on the line,” said one concerned student. Many other forms of harassment targeting pro-Palestinian students have been taking place across the country. The question is whether Israeli intelligence is behind some of it.

[papasmoke]

Steven Donziger's persecution at the hands of Chevron is as insane and evil to me as Boeing assassinating that whistleblower, if a powerful company hates you enough it can run your ass through a parallel private court system with a guaranteed guilty verdict

[caatrin]

[basic info was copy-pasted from the campaign - be sure to read the full story on the campaign itself!]

Steven Donzinger is a human rights lawyer who was locked up in the United States for close to three years after working with Amazonian communities to hold Chevron to account for creating one of the world’s worst environmental disasters.

Donziger was prosecuted directly by Chevron on a bogus contempt of court charge and spent over two years in detention without a trial.

This crowdfunding campaign will help fund a high profile pardon campaign that will force President Biden pardon Donziger for his baseless Chevron-orchestrated contempt conviction.

We need to raise enough funds to mobilize millions around the world to pressure the White House.

[hasanpits]

the boys are interviewing steven donziger?????????

[cometconmain]

Please reblog even if you can't donate.

[stilettochat]

"War crimes by one side can never justify war crimes in response." -- Steven Donziger, human rights lawyer.

gaza has just been completely cut off from the world.

after increased intensity of israeli aistrikes tonight, the last cable providing communications was destroyed. telecommunications have been completely cut off. they cannot reach one another. they cannot reach paramedics. the red crescent society has completely lost contact with their branch in gaza. nobody inside can reach anyone inside, and especially not outside of gaza to tell us what is going on. this is a complete atrocity.