Today we have a diverse show about a range of topics. Nomiki Konst begins by discussing the need for Democrats to invest in state parties. Then, attorney Steven Donziger joins us to explain how Chevron is using their legal power to crush him, after he advocated for indigenous people and the environment in a case that he won. Now he’s sitting in house arrest, with his assets frozen, a victim of a system that allows corporations to rule the law. Later, Piper Winkler and Simon Narode take a closer look at Joe Rogan terrible advice for taking the vaccine, Bill Gates saying the US shouldn’t share the vaccine formula, and Rose McGowan telling Fox News that Democrats are in a cult. Our panel breaks it all down.

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Steven Donziger is an attorney who is known for his legal battles with Chevron, particularly the Lago Agrio oil field case. He represented over 30,000 farmers and Indigenous people from Ecuador in a case against Chevron related to environmental damage and the health effects from oil drilling. The courts in Ecuador awarded the plaintiffs $9.5 billion in legal damages, which led Chevron to withdraw its assets from Ecuador and to take legal action against Donziger in the U.S. In 2011, Chevron filed a RICO suit against Donziger in NYC. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan determined that the Ecuadorian court’s ruling couldn’t be enforced in the U.S. because it had been achieved through various offenses against legal ethics, including racketeering. Donziger was disbarred from practicing law in New York in 2018 and has been under house arrest since August 2019 as he awaits trial on charges of criminal contempt of court, which came out of his appeal against Kaplan’s decision in the RICO case. Last year, 29 Nobel laureates described Chevron’s actions against Donziger as “judicial harassment” and human rights campaigns described the actions as an example of “a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP).” Link: https://www.freedonziger.org

Piper Winkler was a core organizer for Harvard for Bernie, now Harvard YDSA, where she is currently co-chair. She is a team member on The Nomiki Show. Her writing appears in Jacobin and the Harvard Political Review. Twitter: @piper_winks

Simon Narode is a socialist writer, and a former organizer for the Bernie Sanders campaign. Twitter: @SimonNarode Instagram: @simonnarode

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