Ogoni
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Shell Exits Nigeria, Leaving Behind Trail of Environmental Degradation
I’ll never forget seeing the vast, charcoal wasteland left from a devastating oil spill in the village of Ebubu, in the heart of Ogoniland in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. The oil from a pipeline belonging to the Anglo Dutch oil group Shell had burst three decades before my visit, destroying the community’s streams and aquatic life.… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 545 19 August 2011: CORPORATIONS, CRIME, REVOLTS AND PROTESTS
19 August 2011 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts, 6. Highlights French edition, 7. Cartoons Continue reading
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Shelling out or just a Shell game? By William Bowles
As far I know I’m not on any Shell mailing list but Shell must have been doing their homework and Googled me because low and behold, on the 17 May I got a press release from the biggest energy company on the planet. Amongst other things, the press release informs me: “The Comprehensive Shell Remediation… Continue reading
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Video: Shell on Trial: Landmark Trial Set to Begin Over Shell's Role in 1995 Execution of Nigerian Human Rights Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa
Fourteen years after the widely condemned execution of the acclaimed Nigerian writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, the court will hear allegations that Shell was complicit in his torture and execution. Continue reading
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The Case Against Shell: Landmark Human Rights Trial (Wiwa v. Shell)
In the early 1990s, following decades of Shell’s environmental devastation in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, the Ogoni people of the region organized a non-violent movement against the oil company. Shell’s response? They armed, financed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military regime to repress the non-violent movement — leading to the torture and shootings… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 