Watch the entire Donny Rico series here: http://amwt.ch/3627 Episode #2 in the Adventures of Donny Rico (and Chevron): How to Pollute the Amazon and Get Away wit' it! "Who's Bribin' Who?" To draw

Watch the entire Donny Rico series here: http://amwt.ch/3627 Episode #2 in the Adventures of Donny Rico (and Chevron): How to Pollute the Amazon and Get Away wit' it! "Who's Bribin' Who?" To draw attention to Chevron's threat to open society and freedom of speech Amazon Watch presents The Adventures of "Donny Rico". (see Episode #1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be9XncS8tiA) Episode 2 focuses on the absurd testimony of Chevron's "key witness" in the bogus RICO action against the Ecuadorians and their lawyers. Read More on the Eye On the Amazon: http://amazonwatch.org/news/2014/0528-whos-bribin-who The only direct testimony supporting Chevron's key claim—i.e. that the Ecuadorian plaintiffs' legal team "bribed" the trial judge to allow them to write the opinion—comes from Guerra, the disgraced former Ecuadorian judge who is probably one of the most openly corrupt witnesses ever to blight an American courthouse. His entire testimony violated U.S. law, which prevents witnesses from being paid for their testimony. Key facts about Guerra: 1. He admits he accepted and paid bribes throughout his legal career, both as a practicing lawyer and as a sitting judge. 2. He was removed as a judge for misconduct. 3. In early 2012, he was nearly destitute and desperate to join his son and daughter living in the United States (his son illegally), but had no basis for immigration. 4. At that time, a high-profile news story broke about an Ecuadorian judge accepting a decision written by a party and given to him on a flash drive. Guerra approached Chevron seeking payment with exactly the same story: he claimed he had evidence that the plaintiffs wrote the judgment and gave it to the judge on a flash drive. 5. Chevron lawyer Andres Rivero and Chevron investigator Yohi Ackerman immediately paid him $18,000 in cash for his story, in violation of ethical rules against paying fact witnesses. Chevron later paid Guerra another $30,000 in cash. It then entered into an agreement to pay him $12,000 a month for at least two years and perhaps indefinitely. 6. Chevron operatives then bought Guerra a car, auto insurance, and health insurance. Company lawyers then moved Guerra, his wife, and his younger son and his son's entire family to the United States and hired lawyers to get them green cards. The incentives for Guerra to say anything to keep the money flowing are obvious. 7. Guerra could never produce the flash drive. His computers did not turn up even a single email from Pablo Fajardo, the lead lawyer for the affected communities in Ecuador, despite the fact Guerra had told Chevron Fajardo had sent him a flash drive with the judgment on it. And Guerra claims to have "lost" his calendar during the year that he said he was in a meeting with Mr. Donziger where discussion of the "bribe" took place. In any event, during the time of the claimed meeting, Mr. Donziger was not even in Ecuador because of an illness in his family, according to immigration records and undisputed testimony. 8. Guerra's testimony changed constantly depending on new evidence. Other documents he produced to substantiate his account appear blatantly forged. All the while, Chevron's high-priced attorneys from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, led by Randy Mastro (who bills at $1,140 per hour), negotiated directly with Guerra in Chicago over his "price" while simultaneously preparing Guerra's sworn affidavit. The entire process is a violation of the ethical rules, as this affidavit by noted legal ethicist Erwin Chemerinsky attests. 9. In his decision, Judge Kaplan admitted Guerra was corrupt. Yet Judge Kaplan decided to credit Guerra's testimony anyway. Otherwise, there would be no high-profile "bribery" A grassroots campaign has already been launched by the Sierra Club and Amazon Watch asking members of the US Senate to investigate and put a stop to Chevron's abuse of the justice system, and vilification of the environmental and human rights community. Chevron's actions in this case and elsewhere set a dangerous precedent and represent a growing and serious threat to the ability of civil society to hold corporations accountable for their misdeeds around the world. Now a wide cross-section of U.S.-based environmental and corporate governance groups have condemned Chevron's most recent retaliatory attacks to intimidate the Ecuadorian indigenous peoples and farmers who have been harmed by the oil giant's massive contamination of their ancestral lands. Learn more and take action at http://chevrontoxico.com

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Watch the entire Donny Rico series here: http://amwt.ch/3627 Episode #3 in the Adventures of Donny Rico (and Chevron): How to Pollute the Amazon and Get Away wit' it! "Legal Tender" To draw

Watch the entire Donny Rico series here: http://amwt.ch/3627 Episode #3 in the Adventures of Donny Rico (and Chevron): How to Pollute the Amazon and Get Away wit' it! "Legal Tender" To draw attention to Chevron's threat to open society and freedom of speech Amazon Watch presents The Adventures of "Donny Rico". (see Episode #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be9XncS8tiA and Episode #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_kAifa3q4c) Read more on the Eye On The Amazon: http://amazonwatch.org/news/2014/0624-legal-tender Episode 3 focuses on the unethical and underhanded tactics of Chevron's key law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in their RICO suit against the own victims in Ecuador. Chevron hired a law firm willing to throw ethics to the wind and take extraordinary steps to concoct a story of Chevron as the actual VICTIM of a conspiracy. Just imagine what it would take to try to turn the tables after Chevron had ADMITTED to dumping toxic waste into the Amazon rainforest. This is the same firm the Montana Supreme Court blasted for using "legal thuggery" and "blatant and malicious intimidation" tactics while another U.S. federal judge said the firm maintained "a culture [of] obstruction and gamesmanship." Gibson Dunn is quite open about using a template to defend its high-profile corporate clients who are losing legal cases or are trapped in scandal. It does this by targeting the lawyers or witnesses who held their clients accountable with character assassination and defamation campaigns. Gibson Dunn masterminded a strategy where a single U.S. judge with more arrogance than Dick Cheney re-litigated the eight-year Ecuador trial in his courtroom in what can only be described as a Kafkaesque proceeding. The judge refused to consider the Ecuador trial record, the 64,000 chemical samplings results that proved Chevron committed a massive environmental crime, or the Supreme Court decision that already considered Chevron's complaints and rejected them. How did Chevron and Gibson Dunn get it done? First they spent years trying to create dirt and get it to stick. They mounted racist attacks on Ecuador, hired PR firms and bloggers to attack the Ecuadorian communities, Ecuador's legal system, and of course the lawyers, activists, human rights defenders or allies supporting them. They launched "sting" operations, attempted to entrap judges, hid information about contamination from the court and turned a straightforward case into what is probably the most abusively litigated nightmare in the history of world jurisprudence. Chevron and Gibson Dunn filed dozens of discovery lawsuits across the US and racked up over $36 million in legal fees. They tried to find any court that would hear their trumped up allegations. Many rejected them and one federal appellate court in Philadelphia reversed a discovery order stating "[t]he circumstances supporting [Chevron's] claim of fraud largely are allegations and allegations are not factual findings." The appeals court further chastised Chevron's attacks on the Ecuador courts as "disparaging". Some judges dismissed the firm's legal attacks under laws designed to fight "SLAPPs" -- Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, i.e. intimidation suits -- while others ordered Gibson Dunn to pay fees to its adversary and other sanctions. One could write hundred of pages detailing Gibson Dunn's dirty tactics. As Donny mentions, Gibson Dunn's lead lawyer Randy Mastro personally met in Chicago with Chevron's key witness -- disgraced ex-judge Guerra -- to negotiate the exchange of huge sums of money and other benefits in exchange for his "factual" testimony. They also doctored video evidence and possibly engaged in fraud on the Ecuador court by failing to disclose that its technicians were ordered to hide dirty soil samples. Donny RICO clearly has more to share about the unprecedented attack on justice waged by Chevron and Gibson Dunn. Stay tuned for Episode 4 coming soon!

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From award-winning documentary filmmaker, Stacy Peralta comes Patagonia’s The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez, a film that lifts the veil on one of surfing’s most enigmatic heroes. While “Mr.

From award-winning documentary filmmaker, Stacy Peralta comes Patagonia’s The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez, a film that lifts the veil on one of surfing’s most enigmatic heroes. While “Mr. Pipeline” is famously known for his calm demeanor in the tube, Gerry built his early career on cutthroat, aggressive surfing. Gerry is as radical as he is Zen; he transcends categorization. He’s one of the most influential surfers and surfboard shapers of all time, an entrepreneur, a family man, a movie star, and a lifelong yogi who brought surfing to new frontiers. His influence on modern surfing is immeasurable, and his story is being told in full for the first time. Produced and Directed by Stacy Peralta Written by Stacy Peralta & Sam George Produced by Monika McClure Executive Producers Evan Hayes, Alex Lowther, Josh Nielsen Editor Paul Crowder Music by Matter Subscribe: https://pat.ag/Subscribe Get more from Patagonia: Official site: https://pat.ag/Patagonia Patagonia Stories: https://pat.ag/PatagoniaStories Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patagonia/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PATAGONIA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/patagonia TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@patagonia?lang=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/patagonia_2/ About Patagonia: At Patagonia, we appreciate that all life on earth is under threat of extinction. We’re using the resources we have—our business, our investments, our voice and our imaginations—to do something about it.

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The pandemic has not stopped border wall construction. While we’ve been sheltering in place, construction crews on the borderlands have been blasting away mountains, mowing down ancient cactuses,

The pandemic has not stopped border wall construction. While we’ve been sheltering in place, construction crews on the borderlands have been blasting away mountains, mowing down ancient cactuses, tearing through sacred sites, draining springs and erecting walls that end wildlife migrations and hurt communities. More than 650 miles of barriers already exist along the border. These walls, fences and barriers cut through sensitive ecosystems, disrupt animal migration patterns, cause catastrophic flooding, and divide communities and tribal nations. This is an unfolding tragedy for the region’s diverse wildlife and people, as well as its rugged and spectacular landscapes. We're fighting in the courts, in Congress and in our communities to stop the Trump administration’s cynical attack on our beautiful borderlands. This presentation features the Center's Laiken Jordahl, borderlands campaigner, and Randy Serraglio, Southwest advocate.

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Shawn Hayes leads a life of devotion. For him, falconry is more than a deep partnership with raptors: it’s his life’s work. As an American falconry ambassador, he’s carved a space for himself

Shawn Hayes leads a life of devotion. For him, falconry is more than a deep partnership with raptors: it’s his life’s work. As an American falconry ambassador, he’s carved a space for himself where people of color haven’t always been welcome. It's taken him across the globe, into strongholds of tradition and conservation. This film is about more than what humans can train birds to do—it’s about what those birds can teach us about living in partnership with wild creatures and wild places. Directors: Brett Marty & Josh Izenberg Producers: Josh Izenberg, Brett Marty, and Shawn Hayes Cinematography: Owen Bissell Editor: Traci Loth Composer: Todd Hannigan Executive Producers: Monika McClure and Alex Lowther European Cinematography: Niki Waltl Additional Cinematography: Jason Joseffer, Josh Izenberg, Brett Marty, Ben Ditto, Kesten Migdal Color: Dan Edwards Visual Effects: Colin Gill, Zeke Faust Sound Design and Re-Recording Mixer: Jeremiah Moore Dialogue and Sound Editor: Eric Reimers Archival footage Courtesy of: Patagonia, British Pathé, The Archives of Falconry, The Peregrine Fund, Wayne Hall, O'Brien Clarisse, Animal World, Colegio de Postgraduados Host a screening: https://pat.ag/GameHawkerScreening Subscribe: https://pat.ag/Subscribe Get more from Patagonia: Official site: https://pat.ag/Patagonia Patagonia Stories: https://pat.ag/PatagoniaStories Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patagonia/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PATAGONIA/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/patagonia TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@patagonia?lang=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/patagonia_2/ About Patagonia: At Patagonia, we appreciate that all life on earth is under threat of extinction. We’re using the resources we have—our business, our investments, our voice and our imaginations—to do something about it.

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Short clip of two social entrepreneurs, Randy Paynter from care2.com and Mark Bachman from Better the World talking about their organizations at the SOCAP09 conference

Short clip of two social entrepreneurs, Randy Paynter from care2.com and Mark Bachman from Better the World talking about their organizations at the SOCAP09 conference September 2009 in San Francisco, California.

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News media can no longer be complacent when it comes to climate change. Over 150 media outlets have joined Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to commit for one week from 9/16 - 9/23 to report

News media can no longer be complacent when it comes to climate change. Over 150 media outlets have joined Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to commit for one week from 9/16 - 9/23 to report on how our actions have been devastating to our planet. Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, shares his perspective. See CJR's full series here: https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/

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