STRAIGHT WHITE PEOPLE
She seems to remember everything – and all of her memories are divided: Life before the oil company and life after the oil company.
It has been nearly 50 years since Texaco began oil operations here in the northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon…. And over that time, the impacts of Texaco’s (now Chevron’s) reckless pump and dump oil operations have been well documented. The abandoned oil pits littered throughout the rainforest, the billions of gallons of toxic wastewater dumped into rivers and streams, the felled primary forest, the noxious gases rising into the sky from 24 hour-a-day flaring, the crude oil sprayed on the roads, the towering black plumes of smoke from spilt and burning crude, the resultant public health crisis racking indigenous and mestizo farmer communities, including cancer, spontaneous miscarriages, and birth defects.
But what has not been documented – what cannot possibly be understood by anyone who has not been here to endure the last 50 years of oil operations – is how the oil conquest has affected the spiritual life, the inner world, of those who live here.
Marina is one of the last Cofán women who remember how to sing in the way of her ancestors. This is her song.
Los que aún no hayan firmado en apoyo a la Amazona y sus guardianes, porfavor haganlo ya! Ayudemos a crear un mundo mas respetuoso y amoroso! <3
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Esa desagradable sensación cuando tu chica te besa la mejilla en función de un “Gracias” cuando la gente enardece en aplausos, porque Michael Bublé aparece en el escenario? #Ayer.de.noche
