BREAKING NEWS: Representative James P. McGovern has issued an important video calling on President Biden to pardon Steven Donziger.
Our momentum is growing in Congress. Help us keep up the pressure by contributing $30 or more so we can continue building our war chest and protect Steven while helping Indigenous Ecuadorians force Chevron to clean the ancestral lands it poisoned. →
In 2008, Representative Jim McGovern traveled with Steven Donziger to Ecuador to see Chevron’s pollution firsthand. Years after Chevron refused to comply with the rule of law and clean up its toxic mess, the stench of cancer-causing chemicals was still strong and whole communities were suffering from life-threatening health problems.
Now Jim is leading the call for President Biden to immediately pardon Steven Donziger. As Jim has stated, Chevron has blood on its hands. Steven exposed the company’s deliberate dumping of billions of gallons of cancer-causing toxic waste onto Indigenous ancestral lands, resulting in the way of cancers and thousands of deaths. Rather than address this major human rights violation, Chevron targeted Steven with what is probably the most vicious and well-financed corporate retaliation campaign against a single individual ever seen on U.S. soil.
As Rep. McGovern pointed out, Chevron used its unchecked power to rig the U.S. justice system against Steven - making a mockery of the legal system and locking him up for nearly a thousand days after the nation’s first private corporate prosecution carried out by a Chevron law firm. Chevron has tried to use the bogus “contempt” case against Steven to try to silence his successful advocacy and to send a message of intimidation to other Earth Defenders who stand up to the Fossil Fuel industry. We cannot let this new corporate playbook succeed against Steven or anyone else.
More importantly, we cannot let the U.S. become yet another nation that locks up its human rights lawyers. That this happened to Steven to serve the private interests of the fossil fuel industry makes it all the more inappropriate and illegal. We simply cannot let corporate polluters get away with breaking the law by detaining those Frontline Earth Defenders who hold them accountable.
Help us continue to build strength and capacity so we can fight back against Chevron. Please contribute $2,500, $1000, $500, $250, $100, $50, $30, or whatever you can today.
Thank you,
The #FreeDonziger Team |
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Steven Donziger is a U.S. human rights attorney who helped communities in Ecuador’s Amazon win a historic multibillion-dollar pollution judgment against Chevron for the dumping of billions of gallons of cancer-causing oil waste onto Indigenous ancestral lands. Since the judgment issued in 2013, Chevron has used dozens of law firms and 2000 lawyers to carry out a demonization campaign targeting Steven to send a message of intimidation to all environmental advocates.
Donate NOW to help support Steven as he and the Ecuadorian communities continue their fight for corporate accountability, environmental justice, Indigenous rights, and Free Speech. DONATE NOW |
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