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WIWA VS SHELL

Press conference and performance
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Venue: Amnesty International UK
Main Auditorium, The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA


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April 6th, 6.30pm

Exclusive speakers, film and performances organised by the remember saro-wiwa coalition and AFROGROOV, to highlight the Wiwa vs Shell trial.

Wiwa vs Shell is a landmark human rights case that goes to trial on 27th April in New York, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights and EarthRights International. Shell will be taken to court for complicity in a catalogue of human rights abuses in Nigeria, including the execution of activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his Ogoni colleagues on 10th November 1995.

Earth Rights International will speak at the press conference about the trial, the charges and their significance. This is reinforced by a special, one-off collaboration for the event, with acclaimed performance poet Zena Edwards, leading Nigerian rap artist BREIS and Senegalese percussionist BABACAR DIENG, who present a fusion of poetry, hip hop, jazz, soul and Mbalax.

Ken Saro-Wiwa led the Ogoni campaign for environmental and social justice in the Niger Delta. Today, Shell is still flaring gas in unimaginable quantities, poisoning the land and accelerating global climate change.

The time for justice is now.

Speakers: Amnesty International, EarthRights International, Greenpeace UK Director - John Sauven, Financial Times journalist & writer Michael Peel, PLATFORM, & more speakers and performers TBC.

http://www.earthrights.org/legal/shell/

http://ccrjustice.org/

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(c)Greenpeace/Lambon Ken Saro-Wiwa, speaking at Ogoni Day demonstration, Nigeria. The demonstration was officially called to mark the start of UNICEF's international Year of Indigenous People, but unofficially it was against the Shell oil company. Shell operates many oilfields in the Bori region and there have been many blowouts and leaks.

 

(c) Sophia Evans 2002. Loveday Fomsi, an Ogoni man, looks into a polluted stream, formerly a drinking water source for locals. Fish abandoned all the nearby creeks many years ago. The oil company Shell never did much to clean up spills. Oil pipes leading from Bonny Island where the oil is exported burst every so often. Streams and creeks are polluted all over Ogoniland. Kpean, Ogoniland, Niger Delta, Nigeria 11/11/2002

 

(c)Tim Nunn 2004. Path to leaking oil 'Well Head 18' in Kpor, Ogoni, Nigeria. Local Witnesses reported that the oil well, which is part of Shell's reserves, had been leaking at this rate for five months. Local streams and wells for drinking water were heavily polluted with crude oil.

 

(c) Sophia Evans 2002. Delta people are by nature fisherman and hunters. But there is not as much fish as there used to be and the wild animals have gone. This is Bonny Island where all the oil collects from around the Niger Delta ready for export. Bonny Island, Niger Delta, Nigeria. 29/11/2002

 

(c)Stakeholder Democracy Network. December 2003: Oil-spill and fire caused by a rupture in one of Shell's high-pressure pipelines, Elikpokwuodu community in Rukpokwu in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

 

(c) Sophia Evans 2002. Oil companies in the Niger Delta employ the Nigerian military to guard their facilities and escort workers on boats through the rivers and swamps. Travelling on the waterways of the Delta is extremely dangerous as unemployed armed youths kidnap oil workers and hold them hostage until cash is delivered. Abiteye to Escravos, Niger Delta, Nigeria, 22/11/2002.
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