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In December 2019, 83-year-old Betty Thomas was murdered in her home when the cable guy returned to her home under the guise of finishing his work. Fast forward to July 2022 and this story makes another shocking headline. The cable company Spectrum was found to be negligent in Thomas’ murder and was subsequently instructed to pay $375 million in damages and an additionally $7 billion in punitive damages. And if the numbers aren’t enough to make you wonder, Spectrum was found to be 90% responsible for Thomas’ death while perpetrator Roy James Holden was found to be only 10% responsible for his act. Host Jack Russo discusses this Texas case that resulted in a rather unexpected ruling.

Have you heard of the Amazon Chernobyl? To save money, ChevronTexaco deliberately caused the largest oil disaster in history. They dumped over 16 billion gallons of toxic oil waste into open pits in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. They poisoned rivers, streams, peasant farmers, and Indigenous communities living in the rainforest. Their cost cutting measures were fatal to hundreds if not thousands of people. 

Despite the fact that this is the most massive oil spill in history, completely dwarfing the BP spill of 2010, very few people are even aware of this catastrophe. Big oil has funneled so much money into our corporate media that this story is barely being shared.

Chevron’s victims refuse to remain silent. Their coalition of 30,000 Indigenous community members and peasant farmers have been battling the oil giant for decades. Lawyer Steven Donziger joins the fight. They win a landmark victory in the “environmental trail of the century,” but Chevron refuses to accept defeat. As you’ll learn in this episode, Chevron uses every tool at their disposal to skirt accountability and retaliate for their loss.


Next week we’ll share the second part of this story: Chevron’s corporate prosecution of lawyer Steven Donziger.


May 21st is ANTI-CHEVRON DAY – an international day of action!
More here: The True  Cost of Chevron

For more information and ways to help, check out Amazon Watch

Donate to the Donziger defense fund here!

More on the history here: ChevronToxico

The Class Action Cocktail

45     ml     Aguardiente or light rum 

105    ml    Horchata Lojana tea, brewed and filtered

15    ml    Panela or other raw sugar 

15    ml    Lemon juice

Build this drink in a clear heat proof mug if drinking hot, or your favorite clear glass if drinking cold. Ice isn’t necessary if your batch everything ahead of time and refrigerate. Add all ingredients to your glass and stir to incorporate. Garnish with an edible flower and enjoy!

Adjust the proportions if you’d like your drink less or more sweet or boozy. 

Glassware:      Clear heat proof mug 

Garnish:         Edible flower

ABV:             12%

Thank you to Jesse Torres for another amazing drink!

CC photo credit: Chevron’s Toxic Legacy in Ecuador’s Amazon by Rainforest Action Network

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Rencontre avec Texaco véritable activiste du Hip-Hop. Sur ces 35 dernières années il a fait beaucoup pour la culture en France, sans se mettre personnellement en avant. 

A titre d'exemple il a été manager de Fabe, co-fondateur du premier fanzine rap en France, "Get Busy", ainsi que des agences "Wicked" et "360" spécialisées dans la promotion d'artistes et le street marketing (pionnier en France dans ce domaine).

Il nous raconte dans cette épisode son parcours, ses expériences aux Etats-Unis et en Suisse, sa vision du Rap, mais aussi comment la culture Hip-Hop s'est développée en France.

Prenez des notes !!! On apprend beaucoup de choses.

The topic for this FBTV Podcast --- The Vaccine Mandate

Also in this episode...

New York Attempts To Ban Diesel Truck Sale
Big Truck Sales Up

The elephant in the room? The vaccine mandate.

This and more in this FBTV Podcast from TALTOA.

https://taltoa.com
https://freightbrokertv.com

Today we have the opportunity to glimpse what it means to stand for community and healing in the midst of the fallout of Western extractive corporate interests. Lexie Gropper is a biologist dedicated to deepening her understanding of the life cycles, with a passion for the processes of decomposition leading to fertile grounds and new opportunities. She dedicates her energy to the cultivation of plants, fungi, bacteria, relationships, community, and healing.

Lexie has been living in the Ecuadorian Amazon since 2014. She lives on her family's reforested edible jungle, a literal island in the middle of a sea of deforestation and ongoing contamination from petroleum extraction, cattle ranching, and cash crop monocultures. The name of their project is Amisacho Restauración, where they've dedicated themselves to three direct lines of action with communities in their region: restoring ecosystems, restoring health, restoring community. 

In this episode…

• About Amisacho Restauración, reforestation, and education
• Rescuing ancient soil building practices such as terra preta
• The history of resource extraction in Sucumbios, Ecuador
• The ongoing 27-year legal battle between the indigenous population of Ecuador and Texaco (formerly Chevron) for the crime of ecocide and challenges of watching a corporation exploit loopholes in the legal system to avoid responsibility for damages
• Involvement with Environmental Reparations Committee, organizing social approaches to environmental restoration and reparations
• The health therapy program which sends health specialists trained in permaculture, biomagnetism, and holistic psychotherapies to support cancer patients in areas affected by the contamination of the waterways by petroleum industry byproducts
• Growing mycomedicinals (medicinal mushrooms) and donating tinctures to help support the remote indigenous population
• Offering courses in soil regeneration and returning indigenous forest microbes to the land
• The magickal mystickal Wood Wide Web, bokashi and biochar
• Biomagnetism

Resources

• Support Amisacho Restauración in donating seeds and mushroom medicinal tinctures to Sucumbios Reparation Committees. Paypal: abgropper@yahoo.com

• www.amisacho.com; email: info@amisacho.com;

• facebook: amisacho https://www.facebook.com/AmisachoRestauracion/

• Instagram: amisacho_restauracion https://www.instagram.com/amisacho_restauracion/

• Amazon Frontlines

• Reusing the Resource: Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling by Carol Steinfeld 

• Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide by Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew

• Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes by Leila Darwish

• Radical Mycology: A Treatise On Seeing And Working With Fungi by Peter McCoy

• Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz

• The Soil Keepers: Interviews With Practitioners on the Ground Beneath Our Feet and The Ground Rules: A Manual To Reconnect Soil and Soul by Nance Klehm

• Soul Soil Podcast Patreon Page

• Soul Soil Grow and Glow package

Texaco was the first oil company to drill in the Amazon. To maximize profits, and because they thought they could get away with it, they did not take any steps to protect local communities or the environment from their toxic waste. For a long time, they did get away with it. Then a group of lawyers and organizations worked with locals to sue Chevron, which bought Texaco, and won a $9.5 billion judgment. Chevron refuses to pay and instead has gone after the lawyer, Steven Donziger, in unprecedented ways with a vengeance. We speak with Donziger and Paul Paz y Miño of Amazon Watch. For more information, visit PopularResistance.org.

Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones chats with Simon and Brian about the writing of songs like 'Chuck E's in Love', 'The Last Chance Texaco', 'Coolsville', 'Weasel and the White Boys Cool', 'Skeletons' and 'The Evening of My Best Day'. Rickie talks in detail about her approach to constructing lyrical flow, her recent covers album The Devil You Know, and her plans for a new album of original material.

THIS EPISODE:

February 12, 1941. CBS network, WABC, New York aircheck. Sponsored by: Texaco. News Of The Week: Heavy rains have damaged the East Coast. The program's guest is Penobscot indian chief Nee Da Bay, who gives bird and animal imitations. The Texaco Workshop Players do "Truth Of Subsequences," a satire on guess-what-show hosted by "Ralph Deadwoods." This is another example of Fred's ongoing attack on the quiz show genre. Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Al Goodman and His Orchestra, Kenny Baker, Larry Elliott (commercial spokesman), Alan Reed, Nee Da Bay. 59:35.