Decision Forces Filmmaker to Turn Over 600 Hours of Footage to Chevron � Moving Train Media

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Federal District Court in New York granted Chevron’s request for a subpoena, which demands access to over 600 hours of footage from “Crude,” a documentary that chronicles a legal battle being supported by 30,000 Amazonian settlers hoping to hold Texaco (now owned by Chevron) responsible for environmental devastation in Ecuador.

Joseph Berlinger, the filmmaker behind “Crude,” claimed he was protected by “journalistic privilege,” but, according to the New York Times, he qualified for the privilege but “the conditions for overcoming that privilege had been met” by Chevron.

Berlinger plans to ask the judge to “stay the subpoena” so the decision can be appealed.

Many in the documentary filmmaking community have indicated that they will support Berlinger’s effort to appeal and resist this decision. Filmmakers understand what this decision could mean for the future of documentary filmmaking.

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CHEVRON - one more Oil Corporation in control of - and devastating whole swaths of humanity and planet with every mile. You can see more about it at http:www.linktv.org or http://democracynow.org; or in many other articles. Just the pictures of Chevron's actions show their attitude in sharp relief.

CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE.

Decision Forces Filmmaker to Turn Over 600 Hours of Footage to Chevron � Moving Train Media

Rustbelt Rage

Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline.

On that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government may not ban corporations from political spending on elections—a decision that profoundly affects government policy, both domestic and international.

The decision heralds even further corporate takeover of the U.S. political system.

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A well-done article, as always, from Professor Chomsky.

Paz.

Rustbelt Rage

Decision Forces Filmmaker to Turn Over 600 Hours of Footage to Chevron � Moving Train Media

Chevron doesn't want you to see the Truth of what they're doing there! What you can't see, you can't know, right? Wrong!!!

Do Corporations control EVERYTHING??? Especially the TRUTH!!??

If you let them.

Decision Forces Filmmaker to Turn Over 600 Hours of Footage to Chevron � Moving Train Media

Cost of Doing Business: BP’s $730 million in fines/settlements 2 criminal convictions � Citizen Energy

A/ It's easier and cheaper to pay the fines than do it right (read: it works for All Living Things, and there's still plenty of profit left over, don't worry.)

B/ Insist that the fines and ongoing cleanup and monitoring for at least one decade after the crime of polluting the planet are high enough and concrete enough that it no longer serves any entity, person, or group (corporations fall under: entity, not 'people') to not do it right for All Living Things in the first place.

This, indeed, is a no-brainer.

Cost of Doing Business: BP’s $730 million in fines/settlements 2 criminal convictions � Citizen Energy

To those who defend the Tea People and the Haters

 

Obviously these folks can't be Christians or some other peaceful religion (which is what all mainstream religions purport to be...)

This is from a friend of mine on Facebook. 

'They had ugly photos of Obama as Hitler, a socialist, etc. and a HUGE sign condemning all Mexicans as criminals and telling them to get the hell out of this country. Luckily, the police cordoned them off and were standing between them and us as we filled the street in front of Fed. Bldg.There were around 2,000-3,000 of us. Of course, the paper and tv stations downplayed the numbers to "hundreds."'