Last week, Julia Butterfly Hill, was arrested and deported from Ecuador.
( see http://www.amazonwatch.org )
Hill was protesting an Occidental oil pipeline being built through a nature reserve. The pipeline faces massive opposition from indigenous communities that would be affected. She was roughed up. She was taken in the morning to the airport escorted by 10 police officers and then forced to board a plane to Panama.
Hill gained worldwide recognition in the late 1990s after spending two years camped atop a redwood tree in northern California to save it from being cut down.
In Ecuador, she met with the Mindo community, which staged a three-month tree sit to block construction of the pipeline.
And as we write, Diane Wilson, a fourth generation shrimper and mother of five, is outside of a Union Carbide chemical facility in her hometown, Sea Drift, Texas. ( see http://www.bhopal.net )
( see http://www.amazonwatch.org )
Hill was protesting an Occidental oil pipeline being built through a nature reserve. The pipeline faces massive opposition from indigenous communities that would be affected. She was roughed up. She was taken in the morning to the airport escorted by 10 police officers and then forced to board a plane to Panama.
Hill gained worldwide recognition in the late 1990s after spending two years camped atop a redwood tree in northern California to save it from being cut down.
In Ecuador, she met with the Mindo community, which staged a three-month tree sit to block construction of the pipeline.
And as we write, Diane Wilson, a fourth generation shrimper and mother of five, is outside of a Union Carbide chemical facility in her hometown, Sea Drift, Texas. ( see http://www.bhopal.net )