From Rossport to the Niger Delta

cork | anti-capitalism | event notice Tuesday May 23, 2006 21:26 by Joe Moore - Socialist Workers Party mapuche at eircom dot net 087-2994796

Shell and the robbery of Natural Resources.

Socialist Worker Forum.

A Socialist Worker Forum entitled "From Rossport to the Niger Delta- Shell and the Robbery of Natural Resources" will be held on Thursday 22nd June, at 8.00pm in An Spailpín Fánach, South Main Street, Cork.

Speaker- Philip Ikurusi (Niger Delta Activist)

The Niger Delta is a site of an undeclared war between oil companies like Shell and the local inhabitants who live in deep poverty.
Every day the Nigerian government and the oil companies will gross over €100 million from pumping oil in the Niger Delta. Two million gallons of oil is being exported every day from the region..
Yet this vast wealth has brought misery and suffering for the people of the area.
The Shell oil company should be stopped from robbing the people of the Niger Delta.
We need a strong political movement to take public ownership of these resources and see that they are used for our benefit.