Steven Donziger David Goliath 3 decades fight v. Chevron, Big Oil Music: David Rovics 6, 20, 21

What if lawyers could be privately prosecuted, for simply defending the rights of their clients If Steven Donziger loses his case, well find out. Join us as we have a conversation with Steven Donziger, a renowned lawyer, writer, and public speaker with a focus on addressing human rights abuses and corporate malfeasance. He is part of the team working with indigenous and farmer communities in an area of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforests suffering from high cancer rates and other health ailments related to the massive oil pollution caused by Texaco, now owned by Chevron. In 2011, the affected communities won a historic 9. 5 billion judgment against Chevron for the environmental cleanup of what experts consider to be one of the worst oilrelated catastrophes in the world.