WARNING: NAUGHTY LANGUAGE
Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian, spoofs the misleading television propaganda ads by Big Oil, which attempt to make America feel comfy and cozy about being financially raped. Shill, baby, shill!
MUSIC: (c) Joni Mitchell from the CD “Shine”
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“Hear rare footage of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s last televised interview, juxtaposed with contemporary footage from Channel 4’s Unreported World from the Niger Delta and the creation of a memorial to Saro-Wiwa in London.
Also featuring a photomontage of the remember saro-wiwa project and music by Nigerian-European artist and spectacular singer, Nneka.
Learn more & get active at http://www.remembersarowiwa.com.“
The Anglo-Dutch petrochemicals giant will be accused of asking Nigeria’s military dictatorship to silence Mr Saro-Wiwa and other activists campaigning against ecological damage allegedly brought about by oil extraction.
Mr Saro-Wiwa and eight other campaigners were executed by hanging in November 1995 after being found guilty of what were widely seen as trumped up murder charges.
If found liable, Shell would be forced to pay damages that amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Wiwa vs Shell case is scheduled for trial on May 26th, 2009 in federal court in New York City.
Shell Hell - Test for a large scale digital print
The pump jack breathes life into the oil industry and powers the ambulance that rushes grandma to hospital while simultaneously sucking breath out of communities that supply oil. In what has been termed, “the resource curse,” the paradox of oil is that it fuels economies, wealth, exploitation, environmental degradation, poverty and conflict.
Planet in Peril 6:16
Lisa Ling travels to the Niger Delta, where the thirst for oil has created a deadly situation.
Forgotten in this new scramble for African resources are the people of the Niger Delta, who have received little benefit from 50 years of oil production in their midst. They continue to suffer from dire environmental pollution and human rights abuses. Exploiting the oil are multinational oil companies – which have been complicit over the years in creating the situation in the Delta today. Governments in Europe and North America have also played a role through supporting the activities of their oil companies and by creating and maintaining the tax haven system, which has facilitated the theft of billions of dollars in oil revenues by Nigeria’s elites.
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