Just Forests would like to acknowledge the great cooperation received from the Director of Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda during our recent vigil.
On Friday 1st October 2021, we held a vigil outside Highlanes Gallery to protest against Texaco’s continued use of Irish Children’s Art sponsorship to greenwash the fossil fuel giants appalling human rights abuses against children in Ecuador.
In a letter handed to the Director of the Highlanes Gallery, Just Forests explained why the vigil was taking place-please see letter below.
The vigil also coincided with the court sentencing of human rights activist Steven Donziger. Donziger, who was instrumental in winning a major pollution case against Texaco in Ecuador was sentenced to a prison term of six months by a Chevron-Texaco sponsored ‘judge’. (See https://twitter.com/justforests for more on this)
The Director responded very favourably. Ms. Aoife Ruane stated that Highlanes Gallery “…would not host any further exhibitions sponsored by Texaco.” Ms. Ruane further confirmed that she would step down as one of the ‘judges’ for the Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
Just Forests are very grateful to Highlanes Gallery for this very positive and supportive response and we wish them well with all their future activities.
In 2004, Peadar King (in the photo above) made a documentary film as part of the RTE television series What in the World? on the struggle of both the Achuar and Cofan people against the Texaco oil company. A link to the video will follow.
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