[Sfbay-video] "Oil Curse" Film Screening This Thursday at ATA...

[Ariel Lopez]

> 
> 
> Amazon Watch and Amnesty International invite you to
> a film screening  
> of...
> 
> "Oil Curse"
> 
> "Oil Curse" is a documentary which shows the impacts
> of ChevronTexaco's  
> oil operations on native communities in Ecuador and
> Angola.
> It is part of a PBS/BBC series on Global Oil
> Operations...from Ecuador  
> to Alaska called EXTREME OIL.
> 
> "ChevronTexaco on Trial", a short film about the
> trial against  
> ChevronTexaco, now Chevron Corp., in Ecuador will
> also be shown.
> 
> Tony Cruz, Amnesty International's Corporate Action
> Network Organizer,  
> will give an overview of the problems facing
> communities in the  
> Ecuadorian Amazon as a result of Texaco's operations
> in Ecuador from  
> 1972-1992.
> 
> Leila Salazar-Lopez, Clean Up Ecuador Organizer at
> Amazon Watch, will  
> give a brief update on the judicial inspections
> taking place in Ecuador  
> (which began on August 18, 2004) and how you can get
> involved in  
> upcoming events/actions.
> 
> Thursday, August 18  at 8:00 p.m.
> 
> Artists' Television Access
> 992 Valencia Street
> San Francisco, CA
> 
> Suggested donation $5.00
> 
> For more information check out these websites:
> http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=1517
>
http://www.amnestyusa.org/events/western/08182005ata.html
> http://www.amazonwatch.org
> http://www.chevrontoxico.com
> http://www.pbs.org/previews/extreme_oil/ or
>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/oil-diary4.shtml
> 
> Contact: Tommy York, AIUSA Intern:
> tommy.york at gmail.com
> or Leila Salazar, Clean Up Ecuador Organizer at
> Amazon Watch,  
> leila at amazonwatch.org
> 
> Hope to see you at the screening!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Leila Salazar-Lopez
> Clean Up Ecuador Organizer
> Amazon Watch
> 415-487-9600 ext 313
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> 
> OIL...It's in our clothes, our laundry detergent,
> our toothpaste,  
> cosmetics, furniture, contact lenses and office
> supplies. It's in our  
> telephones, CDs, tennis rackets, painkillers and
> plastic. Oil doesn't  
> just fuel our cars - it fuels modern life.
> Continuing instability in  
> the Middle East means a shaky future for the steady
> flow of oil on  
> which Americans depend so heavily. Factor in Western
> nations'  
> insatiable power needs and the energy demands of
> huge, growing  
> economies like China's, when the world's reserves of
> easily accessible  
> "black gold" are already strained, and the oil
> industry finds itself  
> forced to enter uncharted terrain. Where will
> tomorrow's oil come from?  
> And how far are wewilling to go to get it?
> 
>   "The Oil Curse," a PBS production team travels
> down jungle rivers to  
> the coastline of Ecuador, a nation where the
> presence of oil has proven  
> to be more a bane than a blessing and is now the
> focus of a landmark  
> lawsuit over international corporate accountability.
> Then, it's on to  
> western Africa, where an oil boom in Angola is
> poised to combat the  
> "oil curse." Can the oil industry ensure that a
> potential $200 billion  
> jackpot will reach and benefit the people of Angola
> themselves? Some  
> oil companies have embraced a new ethical and
> political approach to  
> business, insisting that health and education
> development projects are  
> created hand-in-hand with the efforts to extract the
> oil from  
> developing countries. In Angola, the production team
> observes the  
> efforts firsthand.
> 
> EXTREME OIL, premiering on PBS Mondays, September
> 13-27, 2004, looks at  
> extremes to which the oil industry has to go to find
> new sources of the  
> asset that drives the world's economy and fuels so
> many aspects of  
> modern life. The series examines the difficulties of
> balancing the  
> quest for new energy resources with security risks,
> environmental  
> safety and the ethics of disrupting lives while
> tapping into tomorrow's  
> reserves. From the construction of a massive
> pipeline that flows  
> through some of the most unstable corners of the
> world to the debate  
> over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and
> the new oil boom in  
> Africa, the three-part EXTREME OIL is a voyage of
> discovery through the  
> world's newest oil-producing regions.
> 
> "Right now, the global oil industry is caught
> between a rock and a hard  
> place. We all want oil, but we don't always like how
> we get oil," said  
> Stephen Segaller, executive producer of the series.
> "EXTREME OIL is not  
> a critique of the oil industry - it's an objective
> look at this dilemma  
> in context around the world, and a realistic
> portrait of the pressures  
> that comprise the coming oil crisis. The film
> underscores just how  
> vital it is to understand the different potential
> solutions and the  
> risks and trade-offs of each one."
> 
> As Segaller says, "When the easy oil has been found,
> we face hard  
> choices over the future of our oil supply and its
> impact. EXTREME OIL  
> gives viewers the chance to explore the future and
> the impact of the  
> oil industry on the rest of the world. Our crew went
> to some of the  
> most remote - even some of the most dangerous -
> places around the globe  
> for a unique vantage point, and the end result is a
> first-person,  
> in-the-trenches perspective on a critical topic that
> affects us all on  
> a daily basis."
> 
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