Corporate Prisoner
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Ralph speaks to human rights lawyer, Steven Donziger, who represented the indigenous people of Ecuador and won a multi-billion dollar judgement against Chevron for polluting the Ecuadorian rain forest in what is known as the “Amazon Chernobyl.” So why has he been held under house arrest in New York for nearly years? Tune in to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader radio hour. |
| 0:05.3 | Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:13.9 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader radio hour. |
| 0:15.6 | My name is Steve Scrovin. |
| 0:17.1 | Along with my co-host, David Feldman. |
| 0:18.9 | Hello there, David. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:21.3 | And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:22.8 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:23.8 | Hello. |
| 0:24.3 | Today, we're going to find out what Steve Donziger |
| 0:27.2 | didn't learn at Harvard Law School. |
| 0:29.9 | And to explain exactly what Ralph is talking about on today's |
| 0:32.8 | program, we're going to talk about Chevron, a powerful |
| 0:37.0 | corporation that doesn't handle defeat gracefully. |
| 0:40.7 | Multi-billion dollar international petrochemical |
| 0:43.6 | conglomerate Chevron bought up their competitor |
| 0:46.2 | Texaco in 2001 and inherited a class action lawsuit |
| 0:51.6 | over a little mess known as the Amazon Chernobyl. |
| 0:55.6 | That suit was filed on behalf of more than 30,000 farmers |
| 0:58.9 | and indigenous people whose lands and bodies |
| 1:02.1 | were poisoned by oil drilling operations |
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