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Friday, May 11, 2007
Peruvian indigenous leaders protest Big Oil's Amazonian mess
Last Friday, representatives from the Achuar tribe in Peru's Amazon region traveled to Santa Monica, California to confront Occidental Petroleum executives for alleged "ecological genocide." The indigenous people claim "Oxy" has been poisoning the Amazon over the past 30 years with oil production waste products. They say the ongoing toxic assault is results in death, disease, and loss of land that critical for their subsistence livelihoods. The Amazonwatch group claims these tribal people also plan to file a lawsuit against the petroleum company. This is video of their protest outside Oxy's shareholders meeting: video link, and here's an archive of earlier, related footage from the advocacy group that organized the protest. (thanks, Mark Pritchard)
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