SOS in Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest
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From: thomascavanagh
Posted: Jul 17 08
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Ecuador
Corporations and human rights, Environment, Indigenous peoples
Amazon, Chevron, ecuador, live earth, SOS
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A PSA broadcast in 2007 on Live Earth representing the struggle to save a national forest, Yasuni, in Ecuador. How to learn a lesson from the toxic legacy Chevron left in Ecuador.
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