Green Perspectives
Description: Renowned environmental justice lawyer, writer, and activist Steven Donziger is known for his work addressing human rights abuses and corporate malfeasance. Steven is part of the team working with indigenous and farmer communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, who won a historic $9.5B judgement against Chevron.
Friends and colleagues,
In April I was released from 993 days of detention but I am still not free. In fact, as I work to hold Chevron accountable for the dumping of billions of gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon, I live in a constant state of peril. Chevron confiscated my passport and took my law license to retaliate after our team helped Indigenous peoples win a historic $9.5 billion pollution judgment in Ecuador. Chevron can still seek my renewed detention through a pending civil case. In Ecuador, thousands of Indigenous pe
The outcome of the Ecuador case is critically important to me and my family, environmental justice, restoring the health of the planet, and rebuilding our democracy which is being undermined by the fossil fuel industry's insidious strategy to silence those frontline defenders who challenge its planet-destroying practices.
Green Perspectives