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Oh geez. That woman who was in that episode of Friends where Pheobe uses Ross' kid to try to get Sting tickets has "personally" invited 6,000 Bay Area Chevron employees to Crude, some sort of documentary about Ecuadorian rainforests, or oil, or eco-whatever.
"You may know me as Sting’s wife [ugh], and you may know of my work for the environment and human rights [really?]. You may also have heard my name mentioned as one of the celebrities [really??] speaking out in support of the 30,000 Ecuadorean citizens who are pursuing Chevron to clean up the pollution the company left behind in their homeland..."
Anyway, if you want to check out Crude, watch the trailer here, get showtimes here.
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Hey, say what you want about Trudie Styler, but at least she is sending a message about something that matters. You play it down like you have no idea what's at stake. Why not LEARN a thing or two. This is the LARGEST oil-related environmental disaster in HISTORY. And Chevron is being held to account by 30,000 indigenous people and farmers from a developing country. It's EPIC. Your "eco-whatever" comment is incredibly rude considering the thousands of people who have actually DIED and the survivors fighting the most important corporate accountability fight in the world. Get a little perspective, will you?
i will get a little perspective, but only if you ask again using ALL CAPS.
Hmm. Looks like somebody can dish it out but can't take it. I have to agree with the deleted post.
Even if Trudy Styler were celebrity (which she's not), she shouldn't actually call herself a celebrity when addressing 6000 people who've never heard of her.
It's a bit crude of her, right?
Did Sting's Wife make a pregnant cook (14 hours per day, got paid less than any MUNI employee) travel 200 miles to make an order of soup and salad?
Yes! Delicious:
"The saintly image of the rock star Sting and his wife Trudie Styler was left badly tarnished yesterday after an employment tribunal found that they had sexually discriminated against their pregnant cook.
In a damning judgment following a unanimous verdict, the tribunal described Ms Styler's treatment of Jane Martin as "shameful". Ms Martin was sacked after becoming pregnant after eight years of service to the couple, who are high-profile champions of human rights and ecological causes.
The 41-year-old cook was unlawfully dismissed from her £28,000-a-year job by the couple's management company, Lake House Estate, the Southampton tribunal found. In passing judgment, the panel singled out Ms Styler, referred to under her married name of Sumner, for extraordinary personal criticism. It accused the actress of manipulating staff and then failing to take responsibility for her actions.
It said: "Although Mrs Sumner tried to distance herself from various unlawful acts and have them carried out by minions, when the evidence is looked at holistically, her involvement is clear. She is without doubt the driving force manipulating others to perform her dirty work."
It concluded: "The position is aggravated by her lack of courage either to face the claimant direct and inform her she was no longer required or attend the tribunal to give evidence."
The Sumners said they would appeal against the ruling but now face the unwelcome prospect of being forced to pay out record damages next month. Sexual discrimination case awards carry no upper limit.
During the hearing last March, Ms Martin claimed that despite being pregnant she was required to work 14-hour days. On one occasion, when she was in her final trimester, she was ordered to travel from the couple's 800-acre estate near Salisbury to their London home overlooking St James' Park just to make soup and salad for Styler, she said."