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Donziger’s punishment at the hands of an oil monopoly through the medium of the US legal system is a product of a social system that values profits over human lives, especially when those human lives are indigenous lives

Polluters want to use me as a symbol to silence the advocacy that is needed to save the planet, says Steven Donziger.

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US LAWYER Steven Donziger helped thousands of Ecuadorians win billions in damages in a historic lawsuit against oil multinational Chevron, for dumping toxic waste in the rainforest, poisoning the land and water of the indigenous people.  Nine years later, he sits imprisoned, trapped under house arrest in his New York apartment, waiting for a trial that has been condemned by hundreds of lawyers, legal advocates and Nobel laureates across the world.  Beginnings Before he began his fight against...