The killing would later be known as the "Santa Cruz Massacre". In 1991, Goodman and Allan Nairn visited East Timor (now Timor-Leste) and saw a large, peaceful protest met with gunfire from the occupying, U.S.-armed Indonesian military, which left over 270 Timorese killed. Goodman also interviewed two plaintiffs –activists who had occupied the oil platform– after they opened a legal case against Chevron and again after they lost and the oil company was cleared of all wrongdoing. The interviewees tell how after over one hundred Nigerian activists began protesting against environmental degradation and for community improvements, Chevron transported Nigerian paramilitary forces to the oil platform, where they shot two activists, injured several, and imprisoned and reportedly tortured eleven. In the documentary, the two journalists interview local witness and Chevron officials who describe the protests and subsequent events. Goodman and Scahill adapted the investigation into a radio documentary called "Drilling and Killing: Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship".
and you have never been able to combat the facts I have given you." After the interview, Democracy Now! co-host Juan González remarked, "I don’t think he’s ever had that many tough questions in a row in all of the press conferences that he’s held in the White House and elsewhere over eight years." Goodman responded by saying, "It’s what it sounds like when reporters refuse to go on bended knee before power." Nigerian Protestors Killed on Chevron Oil Platformġn 1998, Goodman and Jeremy Scahill investigated the role of Chevron in the death of two protesters who had occupied an oil platform owned by the company. Towards the end of the interview, Clinton got frustrated, saying "You have asked questions in a hostile, combative and even disrespectful tone. lifting the embargo on China, the Israel-Palestine conflict, his perceived responsibility for pushing the Democratic party to the right, NAFTA, mass incarceration, and racial profiling. Goodman pressed Clinton on corporate control of both major political parties, granting clemency to Native American activist Leonard Peltier, his hand in executing a murderer who became mentally ill after he committed the crime, the bombing of Puerto Rico, granting amnesty to illegal immigrants, sanctions against Iraq and Saddam Hussein, keeping the embargo on Cuba vs. Amy Goodman and La Nueva Alternativa host Gonzalo Aburto asked him several questions about his record. In November 2000, then-president Bill Clinton called into Pacifica's La Nueva Alternativa in a get-out-the-vote effort for presidential hopeful Al Gore.
2.2 Arrest at the 2008 Republican National Convention.2.1 Arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests.1.2 Nigerian Protestors Killed on Chevron Oil Platform.
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