#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. 

[robsclan]

Robert on IG live// April 13th

[cauli-flawa]

Donziger is an environmental activist who won a lawsuit against Chevron for dumping cancerous oil waste into rivers in the Amazon Rainforest. On behalf of indigenous Amazonian communities, he sued them for $10 billion. Chevron, in return, sued him for 6x that amount, confiscated his passport, and prosecuted him for contempt of court. Donziger was put under house arrest, was deemed guilty, and sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment. He is now trying to petition Biden to pardon him

[froggydelicious]

donate if you can, we need to get Steven Donziger pardoned before biden leaves office! if you hate big oil, donate to Donziger!

[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

[gwydionmisha]

More information:

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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.

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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It's the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The commutations announced Thursday are for people who have served out home confinement sentences for at least one year after they were released. Prisons were uniquely bad for spreading the virus and some inmates were released in part to stop the spread. At one point, 1 in 5 prisoners had COVID-19, according to a tally kept by The Associated Press. [...] The clemency follows a broad pardon for his son Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes. Biden is under pressure from advocacy groups to pardon broad swaths of people, including those on federal death row, before the Trump administration takes over in January. He’s also weighing whether to issue preemptive pardons to those who investigated Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and are facing possible retribution when he takes office. Those pardoned Thursday had been convicted of nonviolent crimes such as drug offenses and turned their lives around, White House lawyers said. They include a woman who led emergency response teams during natural disasters; a church deacon who has worked as an addiction counselor and youth counselor; a doctoral student in molecular biosciences; and a decorated military veteran. [...] Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and 34 other lawmakers are urging the president to pardon environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, who was imprisoned or under house arrest for three years because of a contempt of court charge related to his work representing Indigenous farmers in a lawsuit against Chevron. Others are advocating for Biden to commute the sentences of federal death row prisoners. His attorney general, Merrick Garland, paused federal executions. Biden had said on the campaign trail in 2020 that he wanted to end the death penalty but he never did, and now, with Trump coming back into office, it’s likely executions will resume. During his first term, Trump presided over an unprecedented number of federal executions, carried out during the height of the pandemic.

[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

[takemeinyrarmy]

Biden pardoning his son meanwhile Steven Donziger is fucked for life for daring aid the indegenous Ecuadorian communities sue Chevron for insane levels of environmental damage on their communities I wish this was funny it is genuinely making me want to cry I hate Amerikkka so fucking much

[froggydelicious]

we need to put pressure on the white house to pardon Donziger while Biden is still in office. his Chevron lawsuit could put a massive dent in the oil industry. if you have a few minutes and hate big oil, call 202-456-1111 and tell them to pardon Steven Donziger. you can click the link for more information about his campaign, and donate if you can.