This from Brianna at RAN:
"This Alternet blog which connects the 1 mo anniversary of the oil spill with the True Cost report findings, and Chevron in Ecuador. Bam!!" http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/05/20/is-a-chevron-oil-spill-next/
As I was doing some research this evening, to the harmony of my sister's dogs barking, I found out that Chevron is all over the news today.1. Intimidating journalists. For trying to get the footage from the filmmaker of "Crude." The journalist sphere, of course, is all up in arms because this is akin to reporters' ability to protect their sources, a key tenet of journalistic freedom. Bill Moyers is all over this one.
2. Layoffs. For cutting 295 truck drivers and mechanics nationwide, about 71 in the Bay Areahttp://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_15119834?source=rss&nclick_check=1 and for laying off 570 workers in the Houston area. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/othercities/houston/stories/2010/05/17/daily2.html?s=industry&i=energy A week ago they announced layoffs of over 900 workers also in the Bay Area:http://www.ktvu.com/news/23548634/detail.htmlIn the "True Cost of Chevron," (truecostofchevron.com/report.html) released yesterday, a worker charged with neutralizing toxic waste tells of her years-long battle with Chevron to get compensated for severe work-related injuries that were clearly not her fault. You'd think that a corporation reporting record profits in the first quarter of 2010 could spare a few thousand dollars in hospital bills for a worker who'd been with the company for a long time. 3. Can't clean up. Finally, this is all over the Canadian news:Chevron basically told the Canadian government that they would not be able to clean up an oil spill off the Newfoundland coast, if it should happen, in the areas where they have offshore rigs. So, labor, environment and free speech. Again, the True Cost of Chevron Alternative Annual Report reveals the depth of Chevron's abuses of human rights, human health, the environment, indigenous cultures and endangered species, as well as their corporate practices and influence in continuing the war in Iraq and shady policy brokering there. I know these violations and abuses are systemic to large corporations. but, really? Chevron's own Annual Report makes claims about community partnerships, human rights (the Jesuits seem to support their human rights, what's up with Jesuits being in bed with Big Oil?!) and environmental quality. http://www.jesuit.org/index.php/2010/04/14/jesuits-respond-to-new-chevron-human-rights-policy/Brazen and sick. You know, one blogger for the SF Chron is like, oh the report doesn't do a system analysis. I think it certainly does, as well as doing a global analysis. It points to systemic abuses of human rights and environmental degradation in all their subsidiaries, around the world. What else is consistent? Their most egregious abuses are concentrated in communities that are often marginalized within national discourses. - This is just wrong.
"This Alternet blog which connects the 1 mo anniversary of the oil spill with the True Cost report findings, and Chevron in Ecuador. Bam!!" http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/05/20/is-a-chevron-oil-spill-next/
http://www.truthout.org/chevrons-crude-attempt-suppress-free-speech59512
2. Layoffs. For cutting 295 truck drivers and mechanics nationwide, about 71 in the Bay Areahttp://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_15119834?source=rss&nclick_check=1 and for laying off 570 workers in the Houston area. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/othercities/houston/stories/2010/05/17/daily2.html?s=industry&i=energy A week ago they announced layoffs of over 900 workers also in the Bay Area:http://www.ktvu.com/news/23548634/detail.htmlIn the "True Cost of Chevron," (truecostofchevron.com/report.html) released yesterday, a worker charged with neutralizing toxic waste tells of her years-long battle with Chevron to get compensated for severe work-related injuries that were clearly not her fault. You'd think that a corporation reporting record profits in the first quarter of 2010 could spare a few thousand dollars in hospital bills for a worker who'd been with the company for a long time. 3. Can't clean up. Finally, this is all over the Canadian news:Chevron basically told the Canadian government that they would not be able to clean up an oil spill off the Newfoundland coast, if it should happen, in the areas where they have offshore rigs. So, labor, environment and free speech. Again, the True Cost of Chevron Alternative Annual Report reveals the depth of Chevron's abuses of human rights, human health, the environment, indigenous cultures and endangered species, as well as their corporate practices and influence in continuing the war in Iraq and shady policy brokering there. I know these violations and abuses are systemic to large corporations. but, really? Chevron's own Annual Report makes claims about community partnerships, human rights (the Jesuits seem to support their human rights, what's up with Jesuits being in bed with Big Oil?!) and environmental quality. http://www.jesuit.org/index.php/2010/04/14/jesuits-respond-to-new-chevron-human-rights-policy/Brazen and sick. You know, one blogger for the SF Chron is like, oh the report doesn't do a system analysis. I think it certainly does, as well as doing a global analysis. It points to systemic abuses of human rights and environmental degradation in all their subsidiaries, around the world. What else is consistent? Their most egregious abuses are concentrated in communities that are often marginalized within national discourses. - This is just wrong.
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