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Activists Confront Chevron at Shareholders Meeting

HeadlineMay 26, 2011

Activists from communities adversely impacted by Chevron spoke out Wednesday at the oil giant’s annual shareholders meeting. The activists traveled from areas worldwide, including Ecuador, where a court has ordered Chevron to pay up to $18 billion for for dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into the rain forest. A number of speakers took the microphone to question Chevron CEO John Watson. Kenneth Davis, a resident near a Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California, said, “People are dying… You steal from all over the Earth, then you process what you have taken in Richmond.”

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