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    Amazon Watch's 2012 Priorities

    Learn more about the biggest issues facing the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples in 2012 and how Amazon Watch is focusing on them.

    Spring 2012
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    Driving the Company Off an $18 Billion Cliff

    Ecuadoreans In Europe Highlight Chevron Management’s Misguided Litigation Strategy

    SF Gate | Chevron was found guilty for environmental crimes in Ecuador in February of 2011 and fined upwards of $18 billion. Since that historic decision, Chevron’s litigation prospects have dimmed considerably.

    April 19, 2012
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    Heck of a Job, Brownie!

    Chevron revealed that CEO John Watson was paid about $25 million in 2011, up 52 percent from 2010. Last year was, of course, the year in which the company was ordered to pay $18 billion for oil spills in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

    April 15, 2012
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    A Journey for Clean Water

    Jungle Dispatch | The years have passed slowly. When Emergildo was a child he saw the Texaco helicopters hovering above the forest canopy and thought they were "metal birds." Then he saw the rivers run black.

    April 11, 2012
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    A Day in Rumipamba

    Jungle Dispatch | There was a Texaco oil spill in Rumipamba back in 1976. 35 years later, the Quichua convinced the state oil company to give them jobs, a pump, and some overalls and boots to clean up the decades-old spill. For booms, the Quichua use sticks from the forest.

    March 13, 2012
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    Amazon Watch is building on more than 28 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.

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    It's Oil for Chocolate

    Jungle Dispatch | Donald Moncayo has acted as the "fixer" for hundreds of journalists over the last decade on what has become known as "the toxic tour." He has been described in hundreds of articles, and he could possibly be the most photographed man in the northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon.

    March 7, 2012
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    Dignity Incarnate

    Inside Journey, Ecuador’s Cofán Still Standing Strong Against Chevron

    Jungle Dispatch | I accompanied Emergildo Criollo from his home in Lago Agrio to a press conference in Quito. His voice trembles for a second, and then he says with strength: "I am Emergildo Criollo of the Cofán people, and I am proud to be here today."

    March 2, 2012
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    Chevron's Leadership is an Oxymoron

    The jury is no longer out: Chevron is a criminal – an unrepentant recidivist – not a leader. So why was it invited to speak at this year's BSR conference?

    November 11, 2011
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    18 Years of Fighting Chevron

    Cofán elder Marina Aguinda Lucitante shares a song to mark the 18th anniversary of the monumental legal struggle against Chevron for massive environmental crimes in the Amazon rainforest.

    November 3, 2011
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    Bad Oil: The Amazon's Toxic Mess

    Sunday Night Show | When I first visited the area contaminated by Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon in my role as Amazon Watch Ambassador, I was not prepared to witness such destruction and contamination of the entire forest ecosystem.

    October 9, 2011
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