FlashPoints feat. Steven Donziger
b'Calling in to the FlashPoints News studio from his new New York home, where he is currently under house arrest, rights attorney Steven Donziger talks about his Kafkaesque case with host Dennis J. Bernstein and investigative reporter Greg Palast.\\n\\nPalast has been reporting on this outrageous tale of oil, power, corruption, corporate murder and ecocide since 2007, when he first met one of Donziger\\u2019s clients, Emergildo Criollo, Chief of the Cofan people, deep in the Amazon rainforest. With the help of Donziger, Criollo had launched a David v. Goliath lawsuit against Chevron for poisoning the rainforest and the people who lived in it \\u2014 the Chief\\u2019s two sons being among the many victims of the oil giant\\u2019s murderous sludge.\\n\\nThe Ecuadorian courts ruled in Criollo\\u2019s favor, finding that Chevron\\u2019s Texaco operation had illegally dumped 16 billion gallons of deadly oil waste, but that was just the beginning of Donziger\\u2019s battle.\\n\\nChevron were ordered to pay Criollo and the other indigenous co-plaintiffs $9.5 billion. Rather than pay up, and to distract attention from their own mass industrial poisoning, Chevron set out to destroy Donziger, to make an example of a human rights lawyer that dares take on the petroleum pirates.\\n\\nLearn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/facing-prison-for-fighting-chevron/\\n\\nSupport Donziger and join the fight: https://www.donzigerdefense.com\\n\\nTranscript of interview: https://www.gregpalast.com/why-am-i-the-one-locked-up-and-not-chevron'