{"id":41766,"date":"2014-10-28T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41766"},"modified":"2014-10-28T10:30:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:30:45","slug":"indigenous-activists-fight-to-keep-amazon-oil-where-it-belongs-in-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/10\/28\/indigenous-activists-fight-to-keep-amazon-oil-where-it-belongs-in-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Activists Fight to Keep Amazon Oil Where it Belongs: In the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141028Uprising\/2014_10_28_yasuni.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Leo Cerda <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141028Uprising\/2014_10_28_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/yasunidos.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>A number of indigenous groups and farmers filed a complaint this week against oil-giant Chevron at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Their complaint cites Chevron&#8217;s refusal to cleanup part of Ecuador&#8217;s Amazon rainforest, which impacts the health of communities directly, and amounts to &#8211; in their words &#8211; a &#8220;crime against humanity.&#8221; About 80 groups and organizations, representing tens of thousands of affected people, accused Chevron CEO John Watson of deliberately contributing to pollution of their environment. Ecuador&#8217;s government has demanded that Chevron pay nearly $10 billion in cleanup fines, which the company has so far ignored. <\/p>\n<p>The Amazon rainforest is the largest such forest in the world and covers roughly the same area as the 48 contiguous United States. Parts of the Amazon lie in 8 different South American countries including Ecuador. <\/p>\n<p>Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa in 2007 asked the global community to contribute to a fund to preserve the Yasuni National Park, a significant portion of Ecuador&#8217;s Amazon forest. The initiative, called Yasuni ITT, was eventually shelved and now plans are underway to drill for oil in one of the most bio-diverse places on the planet. <\/p>\n<p>Tired of waiting for compensation or cleanup, groups like the ones taking Chevron to the ICC are taking matters into their own hands. Also refusing to wait any longer is a youth-led organization called Yasunidos, whose mission is to protect and preserve the Yasuni National Park and keep the oil where it belongs &#8211; in the ground. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Leo Cerda is an indigenous activist (Kichwa), and a native of the city of Tena in the Ecuadorian Amazon and a member of Yasunidos Collective<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit Yasunidos online at <a href=\"http:\/\/yasunidosinternational.wordpress.com\">yasunidosinternational.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of indigenous groups and farmers filed a complaint this week against oil-giant Chevron at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. 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