Los Angeles Times | Five environmentalists protesting Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s plan to build an oil pipeline in Colombia were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of trespassing and vandalism.
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.
Inter-Press Service | Washington - Indigenous groups in the Amazon Basin of Latin America, the most biologically diverse rainforest on earth, are pushing ahead to oppose infrastructure projects they believe will lead to the destruction of their homelands.
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.
InterPress Service | ATT EDS: Please relate the following to 'ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Indigenous Communities Fend Off Gold Miners', moved from Brazil/ Boa Vista, Brazil - Soldiers dressed in olive-green camouflage uniforms sit high up in the cabins of three bright yellow bulldozers, maneouvering their way up the uneven dirt r
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
Reuters | Santa Monica, Calif.
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.
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