The Associated Press | Santa Monica, Calif - With protesters rallying outside, shareholders of Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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U'wa Tribal Chief Sends Message to Shareholders to Divest from Occidental Petroleum and Vows to Continue Resistance against Drilling in Colombia
Los Angeles, CA - Roberto Perez, President of the U'wa Traditional Authorities of Colombia once again took center stage at a demonstration today at Occidental Petroleum's Annual Meeting in Santa Monica and delivered his people's message to supporters outside and shareholders inside the meeting.
Event Examines Native Peoples and Colonialism Participants Will Explore Issues Ranging from the Environment to Racial Identity
Los Angeles Times | Claremont - Prominent activists from around the world will gather at Scripps College this weekend to explore the history and impact of colonialism on indigenous people. Among the participants will be the leader of a Colombian tribe that once threatened mass suicide over a planned oil project near its ancestral home.
U'wa Tribal Leader Kicks-off U.S. Tour to Expose the "Crude Logic" behind the U.S. Drug War in Colombia
Los Angeles, CA - Roberto Perez, President of the U'wa people of Colombia will arrive today in Los Angeles for his National Tour (April 17-28) to speak out against Plan Colombia and the corporate interest behind the so-called "drug war." The U'wa people, a peaceful tribe of 5,000 who live in the cloud forests of northeastern
Open Letter to Occidental Petroleum's President, Members of the Board of Directors and Shareholder
We, the U'wa, write to you once more to express our worry over the operations your company continues to move forward on our sacred territory "KERA CHIKARA" through the GIBRALTAR AREA Petroleum Exploration Project, in the town of Cedeño, hamlet of Gibraltar, municipality of Toledo, department of Norte de Santander.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Communiqué to the International and National Public Opinion
On March 21 and April 01, 2001, we had a meeting in Saravena (Arauca) with the social organizations of Arauca and of Cubará represented in: the Asociación Departamental de Usuarios Campesinos-ADUC (Departmental Association of User Farmers), the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores CUT (Workers' Unitary Headquarters) - Arauca Su
Comunicado a la Opinion Publica Nacional e Internacional
Los días 31 de marzo y 01 de abril de 2001 nos reunimos en Saravena (Arauca) las organizaciones sociales de Arauca y de Cubará, Boyacá, representadas en: la Asociación Departamental de Usuarios Campesinos ADUC, la Central Unitaria de Trabajadores CUT - Subdirectiva Arauca, la Asociación de Cabildos Mayores Uwa, ASOUWA, l
Financial Times Series on the 'Price of Oil' NGOs Take to Tools of Globalisation to Mobilise Resistance
Financial Times | With her backpack and duffle bag, she struggled aboard the aircraft, heading towards the cheaper seats in the rear. She inched past business travellers, who were settling in with drinks. Among them, she noted, were several World Bank staffers working on the deal she hoped to delay - the $3.7bn Chad-Cameroon pipeline.
Financial Times Series on the 'Price of Oil' Oil Find Turns Refuge into Battlefield
Financial Times | The battle between the principle of conservation and the need for more oil has thrust the Gwich'in people in the far north of the Americas into a political battle that reaches from the Arctic to Washington and Texas.
Financial Times Series on the 'Price of Oil' Colombia Strives to Strike Oil
Financial Times | Far beneath the snow-capped peaks of the Cocuy mountains, half-concealed groups of soldiers watch a helicopter as it flies into a narrow valley.
Financial Times Series on the 'Price of Oil' Energy Groups Under Pressure from All Sides
Financial Times | Last week Premier Oil of the UK held a seminar outside Rangoon for Burmese security and legal officials on, of all things, human rights.
Colombia Strives to Strike Oil
Financial Times | Financial Times Series on the 'Price of Oil' Far beneath the snow-capped peaks of the Cocuy mountains, half-concealed groups of soldiers watch a helicopter as it flies into a narrow valley.
Oil Rigged There’s Something Slippery about the U.S. Drug War in Colombia
Resource Center of the Americas | The public face of U.S. policy toward Colombia has long been the war on drugs. Colombia, according to widely reported CIA estimates, produces 90 percent of the U.S. cocaine supply and 65 percent of U.S. heroin imports. U.S.
Dying for Oil U'wa Leader Roberto Pérez Speaks about Indigenous Resistance to the Colombian Oil Rush
The Bay Guardian | Deep beneath the cloud forests of Colombia's northeastern highlands lie 1.4 billion barrels of crude oil, and Occidental Oil is poised to make a killing off of it. But the path to profits goes through the home of the indigenous U'wa, who, led by Roberto Pérez, are mounting fierce resistance.
Environment-Finance: Activists Target Investors of US Company Drilling in Colombia
Inter-Press Service | Washington - Having had no luck convincing a US oil company to halt drilling on land in Colombia claimed by an indigenous tribe, opponents to the project are now declaring some success in targeting investors of the corporation.
Activism - Fidelity Gets Out
Boston Phoenix | Fidelity Investments is no longer the prime target of a campaign to halt oil drilling in the Colombian rain forest, but two other New England-based companies may soon take the investment giant's place.
Private Sector: He May Win the Pennant, but Easy on the Champagne Letter from a Surprise Visitor
The New York Times | Investment bankers know they are not immune to protests by shareholder activists who sometimes see Wall Street as an accomplice to social wrongs. But last week, when Roberto Perez, chief of the Uwa Indian nation of Colombia, paid an unannounced visit to the the San Francisco headquarters of the Sanford C.
Colombian Tribe Steps Up Battle against Occidental
Reuters | New York - Colombia's U'Wa Indians, a 5,000-strong tribe fighting to keep Big Oil out of their corner of the rainforest, have stepped up their campaign to bury California energy company Occidental Corp. (NYSE:OXY - news).
Campaign Launched Against SANFORD BERNSTEIN for 'Unethical' Investments in Oil Project on U'wa People's Sacred Land Groups Call on Company to Divest from Occidental Petroleum
San Francisco, CA-U'wa Indian chief Roberto Perez joined activists from environmental and human rights organizations today to launch a grassroots campaign against the largest investor in Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Sanford Bernstein & Co. for its involvement in an oil project on the U'wa's land in Colombia.
Decree No. 1088 of 1993 - Resolution of Register No. 003 of January 1997 Indigenous Affairs - Minister of the Interior PRONOUNCEMENT TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Once again, the U'wa people reject the enslaving attitude of Occidental Petroleum, which continues to disregard the sovereignty and legitimacy of the U'wa, a millennial people, by allowing agents of the multinational Occidental Colombia Inc.
Decreto No. 1088 de 1993 Resolución de registro No. 003 de febrero de 1997. Dirección genera de asuntos Indígenas Ministerio del Interior PRONUNCIAMENTO A LA OPINION PUBLICA NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL
Una vez más el Pueblo U'wa rechazamos la actitud avasalladora de la Oxy, porque esta pretende seguir desconociendo la Soberania de nuestro Pueblo Milernario y por tanto de la legitimidad de nosotros los U'wa con respecto a los Territorios Ancestrales que hoy pisotean los agentes de la Multinacional Occidental de Colombia Inc
Colombia Oil Pipeline Pumping Again After Bombing
Reuters | Bogota - Colombia's second-largest crude oil export pipeline was up and running again Thursday after the latest attack in a record-breaking campaign of bombings by Marxist rebels, the state oil company Ecopetrol said.
Whose Globe? The Plight of Local People Gets a Voice in Corporate Boardrooms
Business Week | Sitting atop a black-rock outcrop near a grassy mountaintop in Colombia, Roberto Perez, the political chief of the U'wa people, gazes over the world that he and his ancestors have inhabited for thousands of years.
Kera Chikara - Ancestral and Sacred Territory of the U'wa People
Association of U'wa Traditional AuthoritiesDecree No. 1088 of 1993 - Resolution of Register No.
U.S. Oil Co. Drills Near Indian Land
AP Online | Bogota, Colombia - In a step a Colombia Indian tribe says spells death for its culture, an American oil company began test drilling on Friday just outside the tribe's reservation, the state-run oil company announced.Leaders of the U'wa Indian tribe have protested the Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Occidental Drills on Tribal-Claimed Colombian Land
Reuters | Bogota - Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) began drilling a long-delayed test well Friday in a potentially oil-rich corner of Colombia, where U'wa Indians have threatened mass suicide to defend what they claim as ancestral lands.
Democratic Party Trick Becomes Treat for U’wa Tribe Environmentalists Continue to Hound Gore for His Silence
Washington, DC – Halloween trickery by the Democratic National Committee backfired today when a lawyer who had claimed to represent the U’wa people, and who used that platform to endorse Al Gore, was forced to admit that indeed, he did not represent the Colombian tribe.
Test Well in Colombia's Samore Block Due this Year
Reuters | Bogota - U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) will begin drilling a long-delayed test well this year in northeast Colombia's Samore block, a disputed area claimed as tribal lands by U'wa Indians, a company official said Thursday.The $40 million, 15,000-foot (4,570-meter) Gibraltar-1 test well had been
Claiming to be Green Party Supporters, They Said They Were Protesting Presidential Candidate Al Gore's `Tacit Approval of Exploratory Oil Drilling in Colombia.' Activists Crash Demo Offices Cops Arrest, Cite and Release Group Found Chained Together
Mercury News | More than a dozen self-described Green Party activists were arrested Thursday after storming the Democratic Party's San Francisco headquarters and chaining themselves together with bicycle locks, police said.Authorities responded to an emergency call from the Democrats' offices on 10th Street, South of Market, from som
