Mayor Gayle McLaughlin recently traveled to Ecuador to see for herself the destruction that remains in the wake of Texaco’s oil operations in the Amazon rainforest. Many members of the Richmond community have criticized McLaughlin’s traveling abroad, saying she should be focused on the issues facing Richmond. But the mayor says there are many parallels between how Chevron acts in Richmond and how the company–which purchased Texaco in 2001– deals with Ecuadorian villagers.
Read my story on McLaughlin’s recent Chevron protest here.
See my photo from the protest featured on KQED’s blog here.
Sally Schilling 