I wrote about a month ago about a movie called Crude. It was a real eye opener. In case you don’t know the whole story, the basics are this:
Texaco polluted rainforest areas, decimated villages, harmed people, ruined water supplies, and more. Chevron bought Texaco and is now trying to claim this isn’t their problem to clean up. Dragged though the courts for decades, this problem has never been fixed. So I share with you this note I got in my email:
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Happy Earth Day to You, and Happy 40th Anniversary to Earth Day!
Dear Robert,
Each Earth Day presents an important opportunity for the environmental movement to increase global participation in efforts for environmental justice and protection. While we celebrate progress and the growing environmental movement, we also look forward to the greatest challenges facing our planet and our environment. One such challenge is the ongoing campaign for justice in the case of what many experts believe to be the worst oil-related disaster in history. It is Chevron’s legacy in Ecuador.
This Earth Day we ask you to stand with Amazon Watch in support of the communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon who are waging inspiring campaigns to demand restoration of their lands that have been devastated by industrial development and resource extraction.
With these communities in mind today, will you join us in sending oil giant Chevron an Earth Day message?
Chevron has just joined Facebook, and their “page” on the social networking website is a great place to communicate directly with the company. Help us welcome them to Facebook with a reminder to clean up the company’s toxic legacy in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest.
Here’s how:
1. Join (“Like”) their page: www.facebook.com/Chevron
2. Post a comment on their wall posts (those stay on the main ‘Chevron’ wall)
3. Write your own comment on their wall (by default the wall shows only Chevron but people can click to see ‘Chevron + Others’, or ‘Only Others’)
Write what you like, but we suggest you keep it in the hopeful spirit of Earth Day.
A few sample messages:
• This Earth Day, put your ‘human energy’ behind a clean-up of your pollution in Ecuador.
• Hey Chevron, how about celebrating Earth Day by cleaning up your toxic mess in the Amazon?
• Chevron, clean up your mess in the Amazon. The people of Ecuador deserve a clean environment too!
And of course, we hope you will come back now and then to Chevron’s facebook page and leave the company a fresh reminder of your message. Chevron may take to hiding our posts or scrubbing their page. We’re making sure they hear from us regularly, and Facebook is the newest way. And it’s public.
Not on Facebook? Talk directly to the company (@Chevron) on Twitter. For example: Hey @chevron, this #EarthDay, put your ‘human energy’ behind a clean-up of your pollution in #Ecuador.
Or just give them a ring: Call Chevron’s corporate headquarters at +1 925.842.1000 and leave them a simple Earth Day message. Just like the sample messages above, keep it short, sweet, and to the point.
Thank you for your speaking up for our planet and its defenders, on Earth Day, and every day!
With Gratitude,
The Clean Up Ecuador Campaign, and the entire Amazon Watch team
P.S. Have another action you like to take on Earth Day? Tell us about it on our Facebook page or via our Twitter.
Tags: Chevron, rainforest
