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There is no good reason that the rich should enjoy their lives at the
expense of everyone else.
Form a group. Adopt a pig in your neighborhood. And commence to make
his/her life miserable until they repent, commit suicide, or go insane.
Joshua2
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USA: April 7, 2000
LOS ANGELES - The chairman of Occidental Petroleum is staging his own
protest against the human rights groups who picket his home and office
- he is suing them for harassment and wants a court to grant him
damages.
Groups including Rainforest Action Network, Action Resource Centre and
Amazon Watch have picketed outside chairman Ray Irani's home -
sometimes in the early morning hours - to protest Occidental's plans
to drill for oil on the ancestral home of the U'Wa Indians in
Colombia.
The U'Wa religion says oil drilling cuts the veins of a living,
breathing Mother Earth and the tribe's 5,000 members have threatened
to collectively commit suicide if Occidental drills on its land.
In a lawsuit filed at the end of January in Los Angeles County
Superior Court, Irani said demonstrators picketed and marched outside
his home many times from September 1999 to January, disrupting his
family life.
A court in February granted him a restraining order that keeps
protestors off of his property. Irani's lawyers said Tuesday that no
protests had taken place since the court order but they were still
pursuing legal action.
"We were gratified that the injunction was granted in part, but
obviously would have preferred the whole request to have been
granted," Irani attorney Larry Barth said. Irani's suit had asked the
court to further restrict the protests to certain times of day and at
a set distance from his property.
Irani also asked for unspecified damages for "substantial emotional
distress and interference with quiet enjoyment of real property
rights," according to court papers.
In the court papers, Irani also said he received threatening letters
coinciding with the protests and warning that he would "suffer the
blood of you and your fellow earth rapists" if Occidental drills on
U'Wa land.
Amazon Watch, one of the groups that organised the rallies at Irani's
home, said they held quiet prayer vigils and did not loudly bang on
drums as alleged in Irani's suit. "It is a frivolous action and it's
ironic that Ray Irani is trying to stop the protests around his home
when he's invading the U'Wa homeland," said Atossa Soltani, Amazon
Watch executive director.
At the U'Wa tribe's request, a Colombian court last week issued a
temporary order that stops Occidental from beginning to drill on the
block of land in dispute.
Occidental has said it will appeal, in its latest efforts to begin
drilling after it was awarded exploratory rights in 1992. Protests
against Occidental have included demonstrations at Occidental's annual
meetings in 1997, 1998 and 1999. In addition, protest rallies have
been staged at the offices of major Occidental shareholder Fidelity
Investments.
Story by Timna Tanners
REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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To find a PIG to adopt in your area, go to the library and get a copy of
" Who's Who."
Who's Who is put out regionally, and is a registry of local pigdom.
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