Amazon Watch and our allies at Rainforest Action Network (RAN) are supporting a delegation of courageous indigenous and campesino leaders as they journey from the remote Ecuadorian Amazon – area tragically affected by Chevron/Texaco’s harmful oil operations – all the way to the United States.
The three delegates come on behalf of more than 30,000 affected people to New York, Washington DC, and finally to Chevron’s backyard in the San Francisco Bay Area to demand that Chevron satisfy the judgment handed down by an Ecuadorian court ordering the company to pay to clean up its contamination, and to provide clean water and health care facilities for affected communities.
The day before Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting, activists from Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network rappelled from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area this morning to hang a 50-foot banner proclaiming “Chevron Guilty: Clean Up the Amazon” in order to bring attention to the issue.
