Join us next Wednesday, February 24, at 7pm in Uris Auditorium for Crude, the next film in CUSLAR and LASP’s Latin American Film Series. After the film, professor Ken Roberts will speak and lead a discussion.
Crude by Joe Berlinger is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet, focused around Chevron’s destruction of the Ecuadorian rain forest.
The inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama, set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celerity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy film making, exploring a complicated situation from all angels while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.
Before and after the film we will be collecting petition signatures for a campaign to encourage Chevron’s new CEO to:
-Clean up Chevron’s toxic legacy in Ecuador, compensate affected communities for health and environmental impacts, and provide affected people real access to health care and potable water.
-Develop a global environment and human rights policy that will prevent similar tragedies in the future.
-Adopt aggressive strategies to provide clean energy to a carbon-constrained world.
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