Shell And Nigeria: Action Needed

This November 10th is the 3rd anniversary of the murders of the Ogoni 9, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the communities of the Niger Delta are appealing for action. Despite the recent release of 20 Ogoni hostages and other political prisoners, the poverty and the oil pollution in the Niger Delta, including Ogoni, remains. The corporations use unjust decrees and military force to continue their theft of resources and Shell has been co-responsible for over 2000 deaths in Ogoni alone since they were forced out of the region in 1993.

Resistance has been increasing across the rest of the Niger Delta. More and more indigenous occupations of oil facilities are putting significant pressure on the corporations, despite increasing state violence. And in Ogoni itself, people have started to organise and rally more, despite the continuing presence of the occupying force.

The Ogonis are one of the few indigenous communities in the world to have forced a transnational corporation from their land by concerted and sustained non-violent direct action, and we must not let Shell defeat them! Solidarity action with indigenous resistance is needed now to force Shell to end its environmental racism and plunder of resources in the Niger Delta. Please occupy your local Shell station on November the 10th.

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