Amazonian leaders and their supporters protested Occidental Petroleum’s annual shareholders meeting at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel on Friday, May 2, over charges that the oil company dumped nine billion barrels of toxic wastewater into virgin tropical rainforest.
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