Thread by @Greg_Palast

Human rights lawyer, @SDonziger, was given a 6 month sentence—punishment for winning a $9 billion judgment against Chevron. As he approaches the end of his sentence, we've collected all the video clips we've published over the past 21 weeks. #FreeDonziger
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“This is a corporate criminal prosecution, orchestrated by Chevron, financed by Chevron, carried out by a Chevron law firm, before a Chevron-linked judge. It’s that simple.” ~ @SDonziger #FreeDonziger

“Chevron is trying to criminalize its opponents as a way to get away with the environmental crimes they committed in Ecuador.” ~ @SDonziger #FreeDonziger

“I'm confident that I did the right thing, the legal thing, the ethical thing — and I think almost any lawyer faced with the situation I was in would have done the same thing.” ~ @SDonziger #FreeDonziger

Human rights lawyer @SDonziger was a classmate of #BarackObama's at Harvard. He gave up everything to represent the indigenous people of the Ecuadorian rainforest and take on Chevron. I asked him why he didn't just cash in on his connections. #FreeDonziger

“This is an apocalyptic catastrophe. It's a humanitarian nightmare.” ~ @SDonziger #FreeDonziger

“I think about #RosaMoreno all the time...Rosa was holding the front lines on the medical side against all the little children and adults who were getting cancer in her community... and ultimately succumbed in late 2016.” ~ @SDonziger #FreeDonziger

“There's a level of punitive retaliation taking place against me that is all out of proportion to the normal misdemeanor case that one sees in the United States of America.” ~ @SDonziger #FreeDonziger

“Chevron's attack against me is mostly an attack against the people of Ecuador, and more broadly an attack on the very idea of #HumanRights accountability.” ~ @SDonziger #FreeDonziger

“The types of things that are happening to me, are the types of things you don't normally associate with a rule of law country, or the United States of America.” ~ @SDonziger #FreeDonziger

“Almost all federal judges in the US, even those appointed by Obama, are pro-corporate... It’s really hard to get a human rights lawyer as a judge on the federal bench... So it’s really hard to get a fair hearing on human rights claims.” ~ @SDonziger

“They keep thinking they can outlast us, or crush us. Or we'll get impatient, and we'll quit or we'll walk away... And that just never happens, because there's too many people who are too committed to justice in this case.” ~ @SDonziger #FreeDonziger

“I am the victim of corporate abuse. Chevron committed fraud trying to nail me in the racketeering case.” ~ @SDonziger #FreeDonziger

“They were dumping 4 million gallons a day... because Texaco decided to play God and dump as a way to save money, knowing people would drink this stuff and be exposed to cancer causing substances — and ultimately many of them would die.” ~ @SDonziger

“This is an unusual outlier case, because the amount of money at stake is so big — and because we actually got a judgment. You'd be hard pressed to find one other case in world history where there's an environmental judgment of this size.” ~ @SDonziger