Pratap Chatterjee | Early last October, every member of a ninth grade girls track team and the freshman the football team at suburban Houston's Deer Park High School's north campus returned from practice reporting severe breathing problems.
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TheStandard.com | Democrats win on some key issues, there may be little difference between Democrats and Republicans. But when it comes to the Internet, Democrats beat the GOP hands down. In Philadelphia, a handful of political Internet sites were shoehorned into Internet Alley, a desultory corner of an air-conditioned media tent.
US Oil Firm to Drill in Indian-Claimed Colombia Land
Reuters | Bogota - A U.S.
Celebbrities Call on Gore to Take Action to Save Colombia's U’WA People "A Question of Integrity"
Los Angeles, CA – In another sign of escalating pressure on Vice-President Gore to sever his ties to Big Oil, several prominent actors and musicians have urged the presumptive Democratic nominee to immediately take action as to defend the U’wa people of Colombia.
Outside the Hall
U.S. News | Street protests at the Democratic convention remained peaceful for a second straight day Monday, as an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 demonstrators marched a mile from Pershing Square to near the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Gore Faces Embarrassing Protests About Family's Occidental Shares
The Wall Street Journal | Los Angeles - For the past six months, Vice President Al Gore and his representatives have engaged in quiet talks with environmental activists over the activists' demands that Mr.
DNC Opening Day—Rally & March from Pershing Square to Staples Center Thousands Protest Against Corporate Control of Democracy Activists Tell Gore: Reject Oil Money, Oxy Out of U’wa Land!
Los Angeles, CA —The week of planned demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention opened today with a mass rally and march where three thousand people protested Al Gore’s sell out to Big Oil.
Protest Against Corporate Control of Democracy: Activists Highlight Al Gore's Ties to Big Oil Gore: OXY Out of U'WA Land! DNC OPENING DAY - RALLY, MARCH IN THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES
What: Rally and mass march in the streets to protest the corporate influence over the Democratic Party and Al Gore's ties to Occidental Petroleum.
US, Colombian Ecologists Kidnapped by Suspected Rebels
Reuters | Bogota - A group of 25 Colombian environmental researchers and an American professor were kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels as they studied wildlife in a war-torn corner of northwest Colombia, colleagues and the army said on Thursday. U.S.
Video Exposes Tropical Forest Destruction in Bolivia: Environmental Groups Call on US Agency to Cancel Loan to ENRON/SHELL for Gas Pipeline Dramatic Aerial Footage Available Upon Request See Video, Photos and Letter to OPIC (July 12 2000)
Washington, DC - In a meeting yesterday, environmental organizations Friends of the Earth-US and Amazon Watch called on George Muñoz, the President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to withdraw its $200 million loan for the Enron/Shell Cuiaba gas pipeline from Bolivia to Brazil.
Gore Should Speak Out Against Oil Drilling Despite the Fact that Voters Rank Honesty the Most Important Trait for Presidential Candidates
Olympian | (July 4 article) Al Gore continues to deceive us about his relations with big oil."It takes somebody who is independent from big oil to take on big oil, and I'm independent from them," he stated.
Protest Exposes Truth Behind Gore's Slick Big Oil Connections Prelude to DNC: Protests Inaugurate Gore's Move to Arco Plaza
Los Angeles, CA - In a precursor to the upcoming Democratic National Convention protests, environmental and social justice activists from Action Resource Center, Colombia Action Project, and Amazon Watch demonstrated yesterday outside Al Gore's new Los Angeles campaign headquarters at ARCO Plaza, exposing the Vice President's
Communique to the Public Opinion
Saravena, Colombia - General strike in solidarity with the U'wa people against the excessive andarbitrary use of public force, genocide, ethnocide, and ecocide promoted by theColombian national government and Oxy against the U'wa indigenous culture.We have completed with dignity the second day of our genera
Comunicado a la Opinion Publica
Saravena, Colombia -Paro civico en solidaridad con el pueblo U´wa, contra el salvajismo y arbitrariedad de la fuerza publica, el genocidio, etnocidio y ecocidio promovido por el gobierno nacional y la OXY contra la cultura indigena U´wa.Cumplimos con dignidad nuestro segundo dia de paro civico; donde la verdad
Al Gore, Environmentalist and Zinc Miner
Wall Street Journal | "The lakes and rivers sustain us; they flow through the veins of the earth and into our own.
Occidental's Oil Project Ignites More Violence Against Peaceful Tribe in Colombia Gore Family Continues to Profit from Occidental Stock Despite Abuses
Moving quickly in the wake of US Senate approval of a military aid package, Colombian armed forces attacked two hundred non-violent U'wa Indians over the weekend. The U'wa have been blockading the road to a site where Occidental Petroleum plans to begin drilling for oil for months.
Urgent Call to the National and International Community the Army and Riot Police Violently Attacked the U'wa
At dawn this morning a Colombian army convoy crossed into the muncipality of Cubara, inside the traditional U'Wa territory. The convoy then requested clearance from the indigenous people (U'wa) to enter the neighboring muncipality of Saravena.
LLAMADO URGENTE A LA COMUNIDAD NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL EL EJERCITO Y LA POLICIA ANTIMOTINES DESALOJAN VIOLENTAMENTE A LOS U´WAS
En la madrugada de hoy un comboy del ejercito colombiano que transitaba por el municipio de Cubara, territorio tradicional U´wa, solicito a los indigenas permitirles el paso hacia el municipio de Saravena.
URGENT CALL TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THE ARMY AND RIOT POLICE VIOLENTLY ATTACKED THE U'WA
At dawn this morning a Colombian army convoy crossed into themuncipality of Cubara, inside the traditional U'WA territory. The convoythen requested clearance from the indigenous people (U'wa?) to enter theneighboring muncipality of Saravena.
Llamado Urgente a la Comunidad Nacional e Internacional el Ejercito y la Policia Antimotines Desalojan Violentamente a los U'was
En la madrugada de hoy un comboy del ejercito colombiano que transitaba por el municipio de Cubara, territorio tradicional U´wa, solicito a los indigenas permitirles el paso hacia el municipio de Saravena.
Riot Police Disperse Indians Protesting Oil Exploration
The Associated Press | Bogota, Colombia - Riot police on Saturday broke upa road blockade by Colombian Indians protesting oilexploration by a U.S. company. A representative of the U'wa Indian tribe claims two of theprotesters were shot by police.
Ladies and Gentlemen, International Community, U'wa support group
Association of U'wa Traditional AuthoritiesDecreto 1088 de 1993Resolucion de Registro No.
Earth's Blood A Nature-Worshiping Indian Tribe Vows to Stop an Oil Giant in Colombia
Newsweek International | On most subjects, Ebaristo Tegria can be calm, articulate, asbuttoned-down as the shirts he wears and as rational as thecomputer on his desk. But words just about fail the 30-year-oldColombian lawyer when he speaks of the people who runOccidental Petroleum.
COMMUNIQUE TO THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC
U'wa traditional authorities of the indigenous communities of Bocota, Tegria, Rotarbaria, Bachira, Rinconada, Barrosa, Mulera, Cascajal.
COMUNICADO A LA OPINION PUBLICA
Las autoridades tradicionales U´wa de las comunidades indígenas de Bócota, Tegria, Rotarbaria, Bachira, Rinconada, Barrosa, Mulera, Cascajal, Aguablanca, Uncacias, Tamara, Tamarana y el Cabildo Mayor U´wa denunciamos mediante este comunicado el atropello físico, psicológico y moral que han venido haciendo algunas person
Gore's Oil Money
The Nation | One of the world's hottest battles between indigenous groups and multinational oil companies is heating up in Colombia, where Occidental Petroleum is seeking to drill on land claimed by the 5,000-member U'wa tribe.
COMMUNIQUE TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC
As president of the Cabildo Mayor of the ASSOCIATION OF TRADITIONALU'WA AUTHORITIES and in the name of this sovereign community, Iofficially present to the national and international communities therejection of the second ruling made by the Superior Tribunal of theJudicial District of Santafe de Bogota
COMUNICADO A LA OPINION PUBLICA NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL
En mi condicion de Presidente del Cabildo Mayor de la ASOCIACION DEAUTORIDADES TRADICIONALES U'WA y en nombre de este soberano pueblo pormedio del presente escrito presento oficialmente a la comunidad nacional einternacional el rechazo al fallo de tutela de segunda instancia proferidapor el Tribunal Su
Activists Urge Occidental Petroleum Shareholders to Sell Their Stock Energy: Protesters Gather at Firm's Annual Meeting in an Attempt to Derail Oil-Drilling Project on Sacred Lands Claimed by the U'wa Tribe of Colombia
Los Angeles Times | Supporters of a semi-nomadic people from the cloud forests of northeast Colombia urged Occidental Petroleum Corp. shareholders Friday to sell their stock to protest an oil-drilling project the tribe contends is on its sacred ancestral lands.
