Caroline re-hosts Steven Donziger, and also welcomes Paul Paz y Mino.
Calling all protectors that we may extend the global conversing to the Earth, “The Amazon can’t breathe.”Steven Donziger, indefatigable lawyer, lead organizer of 30,000 indigenous people in their class action suit agains Chevron for their apocalyptic degradation of Indigenous land in Ecuador. Chevron was ordered to pay $18 billion, later reduced to $9.5 billion. None of which has been paid. Judge Lewis Kaplan hired a private law firm to prosecute him.Steven refused to turn over his cell phone and computer, whereupon Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered him to be under house arrest, from whence he joins us today.
Petition: makechevroncleanup.com
Petition: www.donzigerlaw.com
To provide financial support to his legal defense fund, go to donzigerdefense.com.
Paul Paz y Miño, Associate Director, joined Amazon Watch in 2007. He has an MA in International Affairs from George Washington University. Since 1995, he has volunteered as Colombia Country Specialist for Amnesty International USA and was the Guatemala/Chiapas Program Director at the Seva Foundation for seven years. Paul has lived in Chiapas, Mexico and Quito, Ecuador, promoting human rights and community development and working directly with indigenous communities. Paul is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and served on the board of Peace Brigades International USA.
Steven: ‘Ask me about our economic/financing model to sustain the case for 27 years — it’s paradigm shifting for human rights and fits within the theme of your show I believe.”
Diane Wilson: “Some similarities in suing big companies. I think formosa didn’t expect to lose. And when they realized they would lose, they settled with us. We have a federal judge and consent decree backing us up. anytime formosa fails to do what was agreed upon, we go back to court. Formosa couldn’t appeal the $50 million or the zero discharge. i think this consent decree is costing costing costing them. ha!! Great guest!”
Yo Back-stage Citzen Trickster allies,
at this powerful time of kinship and community, and all that “can’t breathe.”
Derek Chauvin extinguished George Floyd’s life:
chauvinism (n.)
1840, “exaggerated, blind nationalism; patriotism degenerated into a vice,” from French chauvinisme (1839), from the character Nicholas Chauvin, soldier of Napoleon’s Grand Armee, who idolized Napoleon and the Empire long after it was history, in the Cogniards’ popular 1831 vaudeville “La Cocarde Tricolore.” The meaning was extended to “excessive belief in the superiority of one’s race” in late 19c. in communist jargon, and to (male) “sexism” in late 1960s via male chauvinist (q.v.).
and Lafayette Park was once a hub for the slave trade.
Everything is speaking to us:
We are approaching the Summer Solstice (in the North)
– Dark O Moon to New Moon,
when Big Mama, Pacha Mama, Yemaya – is available to be called into join with.
Powerful graffiti:
Tis a potent time to protect all protectors…
The Sun quintiles Chiron- the Mentor Centaur,
opening portals to past indigenous guiding wisdom.
Our ally Deborah Felmeth, cross-pollinating agent,
story-telling songstress
(with whom I will be doing
an on-line by phone or web audio honoring,
calling in all that we need Saturday June 20th 5 pm edt)
says:
“In the West we think of the future in front of us, the past behind.
In the Arab world – tis the reverse. We gaze at the past before us.
The future, we don’t see is in back of us.
But the future is formed by our gazing at all the wise mentors of the past.”
We like reversing perspectives.
A phenomenal collective Historic Arising of Kinship, across all borders.
Trickster crosses borders, through us as agents,
then each of us, with customized broom, sweeps away the border.
We are the words with which the big story speaks to itself –
through the agency of synchronicity & symbolism, & Imagination…
History Now – truly before us –
the originating impulse of, say, police. colonialism, brutality…
Thank you Clio, Muse of History,
for guiding our collective gaze
to the horrific history of police, colonialism,
domination… that we may invoke
liberating imagination… to re-animate
That Global community continue to arise in participatory kinship.
We are now in the final metaphoric 8 minutes, 46 seconds,
for much of life on our beautiful home planet…
And yet Trickster genius encourages:”Take heart!”
In these recent days, dynamic peaceful community in eloquent grief
and “Holy Rage” atmospherically prevailed over the horrific cartoon
authoritarian menace.
Let’s see this continuing to prevail!
