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Thirst - An Allegorical Tale
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:32:15 -0400
Using non actors and aspiring actors, "Thirst" is a student film written in a couple days and filmed in four hours in the parking lot of the Academy of Entertainment & Technology, Santa Monica, California. The film is an ironic allegory which speaks to issues of consumerism, globalization, and addiction to carefully packaged corporate goods. It addresses tensions between desire and reality. Although oil seems to be the one area where collective therapies are needed on a grand scale, we are also addicted in varying degrees to coffee, wine, soda, alcoholic spirits and bottled water. Why Shell? Well, Shell Oil will always be symbolic of the long, sordid history of oil companies in the Niger Delta, as well as other oil producing communities across the globe. SONGS: Water no get enemy" FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI "Red, Red Wine" UB40 "Mr. Follow, Follow" FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI "Dead Man’s Chest" ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON "ZOMBIE" FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI Please purchase Fela music on iTunes or Amazon!

DN! UN Report Exonerates Shell for Oil Pollution in Niger Delta
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:37:53 -0400
UN Report Exonerates Shell for Oil Pollution in Niger Delta The Guardian newspaper reports a three-year investigation by the United Nations is expected to exonerate almost entirely the oil company Shell for forty years of oil pollution in the Niger Delta. According to the newspaper, the report claims that only ten percent of oil pollution in Ogoniland has been caused by equipment failures and company negligence and that the rest has come from local people illegally stealing oil and sabotaging company pipelines. Last year, Amnesty calculated that the equivalent of at least nine million barrels of oil has been spilled in the Delta over the past half-century, nearly twice as much as the five million barrels unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Oil Spills in the Niger Delta
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:52:15 -0400
Slow-burning environmental damage in Africa

Lost heritage Project
Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:30:20 -0400
Available on amazon using the link: www.amazon.com Endless Seasons is a collection of poems about oil, the Niger Delta, and emotions. Oppression, pain, corruption, exploitation and injustice are themes that run through the poems. There is the recurrent theme of female subjugation as well as the deep personal struggles of the African woman. In diverse ways, the poems poignantly portray the sufferings of women, men, and children of Africa. Her website is: www.faithbrownonline.com Endless Seasons is available on amazon. REFERENCES african_kids2.jpg muigwithania.com draft-constitution/ Seabirds www.sanctuarysimon.org Seabirds2 bennyhollywood.com Plantation1 astrored.org Plantation2 www.olw.com.au Bewildered www.thepeoplesvoice.org Dead fish www.libertyhealthbiz.com Oil spill library.thinkquest.org Black gold www.globalresearch.ca Nature fr.encarta.msn.com Dragon/masquerade oysterinmypants.wordpress.com African woman www.gettyimages.com

NIGERIA ILLEGAL OIL TZ
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:36:20 -0400
## Shot 07/2010. ## Nigeria/Refineries ## Christian Purefoy reports on illegal oil refineries in the Niger delta as a microcosm of the problem of oil theft ## FONTS- Fonts: 00.16 - 00.32 : 'anonymous' - illegal oil refiner 00.32 - 00.59 : Christian Purefoy - correspondent 01.30 - 01. 50 : Mutiu Sunmonu - Managing Director 'Shell Nigeria' 02.15 - 02.20 : 'anonymous' - illegal oil refiner NIGERIA’S ILLEGAL OIL REFINERIES Scattered across the Delta swamps are illegal petrol refineries; rusted oil barrels, log fires, hard-bitten young men refining stolen oil into black-market petrol to survive. And it's dangerous work with many of these home-made refineries often exploding. On the edge of the Niger Delta swamp this is the extreme end of capitalism and the oil economy. But these are the young oil thieves that oil companies and government complain are stealing oil and causing many of the oil spills. *Christian Purefoy PKG Nigeria/Illegal Refineries releases 3:30am ET TUE ## plz cut a tz vo.

US Oil Leaves Eco-Devastation in Nigeria
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:04:24 -0400
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Oil pollution takes its toll on Niger Delta
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:12:50 -0400
While the world’s media focuses its attention on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the people of the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria have been enduring devastating pollution for years as a result of oil exploration. Duration: 02:22.

The horrors of (s)Hell in the Niger Delta (1 Spill a day)
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:28:58 -0400
sativawarrior.blogspot.com Black Gold in Nigeria the truth about (S)hells horrible practices. 40% of its oil spills worldwide have occurred in the Niger Delta. In the Niger Delta, there were 2976 oil spills between 1976 and 1991. This Rivers State Internal Security Task Force is suspected in the murders of 2000 people. Ken’s final words before his execution were: "The struggle continues!" In 1990,Shell specifically requested that the military protect its facilities from nonviolent protesters in the village of Umeuchem. 80 villagers were killed in two days of violence. In 1991 alone, $12 billion in oil funds disappeared (and have yet to be located). Local governments admit that oil companies bribe influential local officials to suppress action against the companies. There are currently many groups in the Niger Delta working on researching and educating about the environmental and social impacts of the oil industry on the Niger Delta. A few of these are Environmental Rights Action (ERA) and Niger Delta Human and environmental Rescue Organization (ND-HERO). Additionally,many ethnic groups other than the Ogoni are vocalizing and demonstrating against the environmental racism and human rights abuses of Shell,Chevron, Mobil, and many others. International condemnation of Nigeria is widespread, but there has been much more talk than action. the United Nations Special Rapporteurs report on Nigeria (released 4/15/98) accused Nigeria and Shell of abusing human rights and failing to ...

Local residents looking for environmental consequences
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:15:23 -0400
Michael Cowing, Project Coordinator, United Nations Environment Program, "We are looking at the public health and environmental consequences and how to clean up but we are very clear in our message that unless the root cause is addressed, be it bunkering, be it equipment failure, then there can be no sustainable clean up in Ogoniland or in the Delta." For the time being, the fishermen of Ogoniland will have to row ever further from their polluted coasts.

Local people having hard time due to oil spill
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:15:22 -0400
Gaagaa Giadom, fisherman, "It’s been bad like this for 20 years and it's still bad. It's still very bad. Just here, even in this little area, when we were fishing, we used to catch something. But now we struggle all the way to Bonny and still we get nothing." Local people are concerned.Mike Vipene, farmer and fisherman. "We are inhaling all these things every day and that gives us diseases, sickness, not only my family, the entire community."