Tribe Conquers Oil Company
September/October 2002
Craig Cox AlterNet (http://www.alternet.org/)
After a decade-long struggle, the U'wa tribe, which lives in the
rainforest of Colombia, has forced Occidental Petroleum to abandon
its drilling operation on the U'wa's ancestral lands, reports
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AlterNet. The 5,000-member tribe filed lawsuits, staged
peaceful protests, forged alliances with progressive organizations
in the United States-and finally prayed for the oil
to move.