Reuters | Los Angeles - Environmental activists chained themselves to an oil drum in front of Occidental Petroleum Co.'s headquarters here on Wednesday to protest the company's plans to drill on land claimed by a Colombian tribe.
Dirty Energy
Full-page New York Times Ad Warns Investors: Occidental’s Amazon Oil Project is a "Death Sentence" for the U’wa Tribe
In a full-page ad appearing in the New York Times today, an international coalition of twenty-seven environmental, human rights, and religious organization warned that Occidental Petroleum’s "Samoré" oil project is a death sentence for the U’wa people.
Blood of Our Mother Report
The military patch depicted here is worn on the right shoulder of every soldier that protects oil installations in Colombia. The drilling rig and the soldier represent the story of oil development in Colombia with chilling accuracy.
Tribe Threatens Mass Suicide U’wa Chief to Deliver a Personal Message to Occidental Petroleum and Shell (Entrevistas en Espanol)
WHO: Roberto Cobaria, President of the Traditional U’wa Authority, an indigenous tribe from the Cloud Forest joins scores of demonstrators and other concerned members of the Los Angeles environmental, human rights, religious, legal and academic communities calling on Occidental and Shell International to abandon plan
Demonstrators Protest at Occidental
United Press International | Los Angeles - The leader of a band of Colombian Indians who have threatened mass suicide if Occidental Petroleum drills for oil on what the tribe contends is their territory joined about 50 demonstrators in Los Angeles calling for the company to stop the project.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Indians Threaten Mass Suicide to Safeguard Oil-Rich Land
National Catholic Reporter - The Independent Lay-Edited Catholic Newsweekly | Los Angeles - It was a collision of wildly contrasting worlds that occurred on May 6: in a Beverly Hills corporate office Roberto Cobaria, the council president of 23 communities of the indigenous U'wa people of Colombia, sang a song in the language of his people to three top executives of the Occidental Oil and Gas Corporati
Occidental Offers to Meet with Indians
Reuters | Santa Monica, Calif.
Colombian Tribe Has OXY over a Barrel Business: Indigenous People Vow Mass Suicide if Company Goes after Oil under Disputed Territory
Los Angeles Times | Oil companies have encountered some tough opponents and have suffered their share of black eyes. But never have they come up against a dilemma like the one Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles faces in the wilds of Colombia.
Message from the U'wa People to the World
Each time that a species is extinguished, mankind comes closer to his own extinction, each time an indigenous people becomes extinct, one more member of the great human family leaves forever on a journey with no return.
