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Hello and we are live and welcome to the Katie Helper Show. So incredibly excited and honored

to have joining us. Steven Donzger, Human Rights Lawyer Environmental Lawyer. If you're just

tuning in and you haven't seen him on the show before, as we're going to get into, Steven was

basically punished for daring to sue, help sue Chevron. We're going to get into the details of

that case, but he's joining us from his apartment where he is forced to be because he's under house

arrest and he was just sentenced last Friday to six months in a federal prison, like a real prison.

Steven, welcome to the show and also standby we're going to have joining us Marianne Williamson

and Chris Hedges who are both two advocates for Steven Donzger. So welcome Steven.

Thanks, good to be here. Of course, really appreciative of your time you're coming on. I'm sure

you're incredibly exhausted. We're going to be talking to Chris Hedges and Marianne Williamson

about the significance of your case also about the kind of malfeasance of the judges involved in

your case and the law firms, but I thought maybe you could just share with people a little summary

because one of the unfortunate things about this is that because you've been railroaded for

representing 30,000 Indigenous people and farmers and Ecuador, that story has almost been

eclipsed not by any fault of your own, but we can't and they haven't been paid what they're owed.

So can you just set up like how you even got involved in this whole story?

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