St. John's School of Law Chapter of
Amnesty International is proud to present a film
screening of the documentary
"CRUDE"
"CRUDE" is a
recently released and critically acclaimed documentary about a
landmark case concerning the alleged destruction of Amazonian
rain forest in Ecuador by U.S. oil company Chevron. The plaintiffs
are 30,000 indigenous and colonial rain forest dwellers
who attribute medical ailments and deaths in their
community to oil contamination of their land caused by Texaco
(now Chevron) over a period of three decades. Experts have
estimated that Chevron's activities account for $27.3 billion worth
of damages to the land in which they operated. The film provides an
excellent examination of the workings of the legal
process in a cross-border litigation with so
much at stake for the international community at
large.
Q&A session to follow
with producer Mike Bonfiglio,
Steven Donziger, Lead Attorney for the plaintiffs.
Reception to follow in the Mattone Family
Atrium – 4th Floor
For more information email Amnesty.SJU@gmail.com.