OK you may have seen this news about #FTX, which is good, but I believe this is the same judge that ruled on the side of Chevron against human rights lawyer #Donziger, effectively letting Chevron off the hook for poisoning a massive portion of the Ecuadorian Amazon, for which it would have had to pay close to $10bn
https://apnews.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-court-hearing-5d85e43225c4da2b1abdf65b153bb760
In 2009, an internal memo at #Chevron spoke of a “long-term” plan to “demonize” #Donziger. The same year, Chevron created #TheAmazonPost. Skimmed in a #Twitter Feed, the name is obviously designed to look like some sort of news outlet. But clicking through, you’ll see the subtitle: “Chevron’s Views on the #Ecuador #Lawsuit.”
5/10
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6661647-Demonize-Donziger.html
The legal moves #Chevron has made against #Donziger are no laughing matter. On the other hand, their attempts to beat him down in the court of #PublicOpinion are… different.
“They had to create a #FakeNarrative ,” said Donziger. “At that point, they really crossed the line in terms of the things they started do… to lie, to #deceive the #public, to deceive #journalists and their own #employees.”
4/10
#Chevron responded by suing #Donziger in the U.S. for $60 billion — for scale, that’s roughly one Koch brother. #TheIntercept and others have noted that Chevron’s case against Steven hinged on a witness that Chevron had paid “hundreds of thousands” of dollars, and a judge with “a soft spot” for the #OilCompany. Though damages were dropped, Donziger was found guilty, disbarred, imprisoned, placed on house arrest, and remains unable to leave the country.
3/10
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/
Per coverage at the time, #Donziger and his team argued that a company #Chevron purchased dumped “18 billion gallons of #ToxicWaste … leading to 1,000-plus #deaths from #cancer and to #EcologicalDamage beyond repair.” In a landmark 2013 victory, courts in #Ecuador ordered Chevron pay $9.5 billion in damages.
2/10
Hot Gossip From A Global Warmer!
This is some seriously underrated tea on #Chevron, the oil company acting like Regina George (actually though).
By Eamon Levesque | Jul 31, 2023
From the article:
#Donziger ’s three-decade legal battle with #Chevron is a pain to summarize. Key to understand is that he represented 30,000 #Ecuadorian #indigenous residents of the #Amazon in a lawsuit against oil giant Chevron.
1/10
https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/hot-gossip-from-a-global-warmer
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/unitednations_donziger?s=09
#Donziger won a huge case against big oil.
Add your name to our new petition to the United Nations seeking a legal ruling that the Biden Administration restore Steven’s full freedom including his right to international travel
2/ Amy Howe:
#SCOTUS declines to hear case of human rights lawyer Steven #Donziger, who was challenging fed court’s appointment of 3 private attorneys as special prosecutors after US Atty’s Office declined to pursue criminal contempt charges against him.
Charges against Donziger arose from multibillion-$ lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador; Donziger was eventually convicted, sentenced to 6 mos in prison. Justice Neil Gorsuch dissented from denial of review, joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1627806720754954245?t=3rAIC1kA2T3BafE1oH7OCg&s=09
Steven #Donziger won a court case against #Chevron. He was convicted because he would not share his clients data.
#FreeAssangeNOW #DontExtraditeAssange
Freitag, 20. Januar 23 Übertragung Belmarsh-Tribunal
U.a. mit #StellaAssange & Kristinn #Hrafnsson von #WikiLeaks
Amy #Goodman, Srećko #Horvat, Daniel #Ellsberg, Noam #Chomsky, Jeremy #Corbyn, Stefania #Maurizi, Ben #Wizner, Renata #Ávila, Jeffrey #Sterling Lawyer, Steven #Donziger u.v.m.
The Belmarsh Tribunal D.C. — The Case of Julian Assange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3zFEikhEMM
Democrats follow Trump and continue #chevron persecution of #Donziger. https://mastodon.social/@kylebronsdon/108077167962705646
I don't know what's more horrifying, that the #Donziger story has been all but silenced or that his persecutors are completing their hostile takeover of the final branch of government with the unanimous support of a Trump nominee by all dems in the committee.
@anubis2814
1/2… market manipulation (#spoofing), hegemonic and organised destruction of people and places via conflict, drugTrade (see CIA #CocaineImportingAgency), #conflictMining, coups, other pushFactors which create displacement and a pool of desperate refugees from which to draw from. Finally #lawfare/#suppression such as that seen against #Donziger, #Assange, and many others which keep costs and damages for abuses low, or non-existant.
Chris Hedges speaks with the persecuted human rights attorney Steven Donziger, who may be jailed within a week, about the corporate seizure of our federal courts and American show trials.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=M2K3ypt3VFc