Today, Chevron changed and bent its own policies and corporate governance laws to once again avoid accountability for its actions across the world. Its reprehensible silencing of 30 voices of dissent from The True Cost of Chevron Network at the company’s annual shareholders meeting, leaves no doubt as to the falsehood of Chevron’s “commitment” to hold an open and inclusive dialogue about their environmental and human rights policies and their consequences on the impacted peoples and communities.

All 30 individuals who were denied their right to participate in the meeting held validly executed proxy statements granting them permission to do so. Almost half of these individuals were indigenous peoples who traveled here from countries as far away as Burma, Australia, Ecuador and Nigeria to express their concerns about Chevron’s policies and consequences directly to shareholders, but only two had the opportunity to do so. To add insult to injury, one of these compañeras was removed from the meeting and arrested after being allowed in just for daring to speak the truth about what Chevron is really doing to her country’s people and land.

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100 or more marchers walked over 3 miles through Syracuse, New York on April 25 to protest the use of Hancock Air Field as a base of control for the unmanned aerial drones being used to attack targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A drone is a small propeller driven remote controlled aircraft. It has no pilot or gunner. It is controlled by video and computers from the other side of the world. The “pilot” can sit down at what looks like a video game console, destroy an entire village, and then go home. Meanwhile those in the village that was hit, if they survived, have no home to go to. The event was organized by the Syracuse Peace Council and brought in supporters from Albany, Utica, Watertown, Binghamton, Ithaca, Rochester, Buffalo and New York City.

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In this episode, our 35th, Indy TV interviews Ryan Gromkoski and Noah Wagoner about their experiences as trans men. They start by clarifying the multiple terms that occupy this discourse (ie trans- gendered, gender dysphoria, etc).

On Wednesday March 24th 2010, Cheri Honkala, the National Organizer of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC), spoke at SUNY Brockport. After her “Homelessness in the Age of Foreclosures” lecture she made her way to the Flying Squirrel Community Space to speak with members of the Social Welfare Action Alliance (SWAA), Rochester Students for a Democratic Society and other organizers in the Rochester community.

Cheri Honkala is the National Coordinator for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. She speaks worldwide about the struggle against poverty in the U.S., and the denial of basic economic human rights.

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