All tickets sold out hours before the event, and Sean Penn, Isla Fisher, Stuart Townsend, Q'orianka Kilcher, Armand Assante, Billy Wirth, and Rosanna Arquette were among the dozens of celebrities who attended.
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Protests and Repression in Peru
For the past month, indigenous peoples have blockaded roads and rivers throughout the Amazon to protest new decrees which make it easier to transfer Amazon land and resource rights to oil, mining, logging and agricultural companies to the detriment of indigenous and campesino inhabitants.
Amazon Crude on 60 Minutes
This important documentary is entitled Amazon Crude and focuses on on the class action lawsuit against Chevron for deliberately contaminating the Ecuadorian Amazon and causing a wave of cancer and miscarriages in the region.
Occidental Petroleum in Achuar Territory: A Legacy of Harm
A short vignette of Occidental Petroleum's legacy of polluting the Peruvian Achuar territory. In support of the Achuar's campaign for justice, Amazon Watch is mobilizing an international campaign to force Occidental Petroleum to fund an environmental cleanup and to compensate affected communities.
S.O.S. Amazon!
Amazon Watch coordinated with indigenous organizations and other environmental organizations on this human banner at the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil. The event was organized by Amazonian residents to draw attention to the crisis faced by massive deforestation of the rainforest - a crisis that affects us all.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 28 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Escuela Senen Soi
As a response to increasing threats from logging, oil and gas drilling, industrial agriculture, and mining, the Escuela Senen Soi was launched in 2007 as a training program by and for indigenous leaders of the Peruvian Amazon.
Chevron: The Real Human Story in Ecuador
Humberto, an Indigenous leader from Ecuador, describes the impacts of Chevron's oil exploration in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest.
Cleaning Up Oxy
Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon and environmentalists today donned hazmat suits and staged a major "clean-up operation" outside the global headquarters of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) to urge the company to remediate a toxic disaster it created in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.
Chevron's inHumane Energy
The largest oil-related environmental disaster in the world - Chevron dumped over 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Now they are trying to hide their disaster and launching public relations campaigns about "human energy".
