Sting performs at Sundance exposing secret war

Sting publicizes film about destruction of Ecuadorian rain forest

by Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada January 23, 2009 with stories from San Diego Union Tribune and CBS News

Famed rock star Sting gave an impromptu concert at the Sundance Film Festival last Sunday in support of saving the rain forests of Ecuador. He is supporting an indie film. “Joe Berlinger’s film ‘Crude’ traces 15 years of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Ecuador residents who claim that oil producer Chevron Corp. is liable for contaminating water supplies around the headwaters of the Amazon River”. This is a war that is not reported on CNN or CBC. It is a hidden war that Sting and director John Berlinger are bringing to the public, the need to restore this rain forest for the good of the world’s ecology and the indiginous people.

The story of how the United States started this atrocity is contained in John Perkins’ personal account of arranging World Bank development in “Economic Hit Man.”

“The film chronicles Sting’s wife Trudy Styler’s fact-finding trip to Ecuador and includes footage of Sting performing with the Police at last summer’s Live Earth music marathon on behalf of global-warming issues.”

American and European oil companies have been invading Ecuador since the 1970’s, killing off indigenous populations, building dams, drilling for oil and clear cutting the primal rain forests. It is genocide of an ancient and primitive people for oil profits. Texaco was one of the early developers and now Chevron has taken it’s place.

John Perkins worked for Main Corporation and the World Bank in the 1970’s to convince developing countries like Ecuador to accept huge loans and development at all costs. He later saw he was destroying whole cultures in his work, quit and became an advocate for the indiginous peoples. In “Economic Hit Man“, he said of his new work,

“I was hoping to end a war I had helped create. As is the case with so many things we EHMs (Economic Hit Men) must take responsibility for, it is a war that is virtually unknown anywhere outside the country where it is fought. I was on my way to meet with the Shuars, the Kichwas, and their neighbors the Achuars, the Zaparos, and the Shiwiars—tribes determined to prevent our oil companies from destroying their homes, families, and lands, even if it means they must die in the process. For them, this is a war about the survival of their children and cultures, while for us it is about power, money, and natural resources. It is one part of the struggle for world domination and the dream of a few greedy men, global empire.” (Economic Hit Man)