notes:
Sunday
killer coke at the LACE gallery---screening of film about workers killed at cocacola bottling plant
columbia peace project--patrick
new lawsuit on killer coke website
ray rogers---
hormel boycott leader
international coke boycott
sparl LA campaign
lawyer theresa
NIGERIA
unsalinated water
oil activities
shell chevron---way of life destroyed part and parcel sea incursion water became salinated plants died
fish gone animals died no drinking water
new impovrishment
military dictatorships
chevron niger delta ilaga—subgroup
kill and go locally because of practices repressive violent crew
chevron developed for ghost jobs pittances graft non-existent
society dominated by men in speaking positions
some of the young men got edu analyze gas flares the dredging the oil spills to determine there were real connections w devastation in the communiities
organize aX tribes
to negotiate with chevron
block dredging of the canal
recreate areas
restore
desalinate
and to create real jobs
chevron policies of ghost jobs and scholarships----but divide and conquer---real issues not dealt with
concerned citizens ignored
chevron refused to meet
elders of 40-50 communities
bridged concerns
strict instructions to youth in nigeria to lead an excursion to an offshore oil platform protest to get chevron attention---some negotiations
chevron sent in a militia
navy army troups
paid a daily rate---flown in in-house security
two shot and killed
beaten
arrested and tortured
a number of people ilage tribe
came forward as a result
enviro rts org
NYC org lawsuit
brought in san fran federal cts
chevron's corp headquarters outside of san fran
and v. two subsidiaries
alien torts statute
allows to
sue companies for human rts abuses
viplations of accepted norms
genocide
extrajudicial killings
unacceptable.
For approximately
issue
abathco regime in full force
late 90s regime change to a democratically elected regime
bias twds govt.
some of thos changed
not a fair heading
cant bring a case against
actions by nigerian subsidiary
judge 2004 trial vs american corporations
making case connection creating limited liability
for subcorporation subsidiary
prove that the nigerian subcorp had control over the troups
investigations
underlying
octopus ax globe
chevron---downplay the environmental impacts towards community
to be front and center
re the real act, as you would expect
fall 2008 TRIAL
is the legal syst niger equador fair to indigenous concerns
on the other scale
will american juries understand the scale as what is going on
seen as protesters
or will they be seen as ecoterrorists
evidnce and language issues
chevron taught workers to testify using language of “pirates”
center from cross exam
how did you come to that
prep for deposition
atty promoted pirate
deposed on videotape
hamstrung at trial
judge
allowed either to testify with these words or not at all
ultimately a lot of extraneous evidence allowed
to paint her clients as terrorists
anti-nationalist
anti-tribal
racist overtones in the defense
threaten kidnapping and take hostages
jury not in her favor
court needed a unanimous
on appeal
strong issues
judge
very smart moderate judge 9th circuit neither l nor rt
significant errors in jury instructions
hopeful
difficult to reverse
struggles of people in nigeria
continue to attempt to negotiate with chevron
debate over govt.
uproar
hospital
second in command
chief enviro activist
hope for inroads in govt for better balance btw multinationals and the federal power.
Spring 2009 settlement success story
people whose lives were shattered
any boycotts
org in san fran
nigeria org started in in early 2008
there is organizing chevron has flooded airwaves about how great chevron is---ads---multicultural PR everpresent during the trial banner ad front page san fran chronicle
activism to dispel truth.
Graphic arts re:nigeria??? carol wells asks
she went to nigeria atty therese.
Distribution is so easy
students put out a call contra chevron
laura labotti in san fran best person to talk to re poster acquisition
re interested re edu posters
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