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Tottenham’s Bernie Grant Arts Centre to Welcome Ken Saro-Wiwa Memorial...
LAUNCH EVENT: Saturday 25 June, 12-2pm, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Rd, London N15 4RX. MAP: View Larger Map A spectacular life-size steel bus, created as a memorial to Nigerian...
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Breaking: Shell admits liability for 2 oil spills in Nigeria
In a potentially ground-breaking development, The Guardian reported today that Shell has accepted liability for two massive oil spills which devastated farmland in Bodo, Ogoniland in 2008. Shell faces...
View ArticleShell to blame: Nigeria oil spills case creates media storm
Shell’s environmental devastation in the Niger Delta came under heavy scrutiny today, as global media attention focused on the company’s admission of liability for two devastating oil spills in Nigeria...
View ArticleBreaking: Delta Activists Respond to UNEP Report
Below is a press release from ERA/FoE Nigeria, in response to UNEP’s publication – in the last half hour – of its report on the ecological impact of oil spills in Ogoni. Local activists argue that...
View ArticleThe struggle for justice in Ogoni
Here is a heartfelt comment piece in The Guardian on the local reaction in Ogoni to Shell’s oil spill payout. Shell has admitted liability but has a long way to go to make amends Oil spills destroyed...
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The Biggest Oil Spill in the World
PLATFORM featured on Channel 4 News this evening, providing analysis on two current news stories – the revelations of the full extent of environmental devastation in Ogoni land contained in the UN’s...
View ArticleThe long struggle for justice in Ogoni
US-based EarthRights International (ERI) use the law to defend human rights and the environment. They recently posted up their perspective on Shell’s admission of liability for oil spills in Bodo,...
View ArticleUNEP report on oil spills in Ogoni: a summary from SDN
If you don’t have the time to read UNEP’s 262 page report on the impact of oil spill’s in Ogoni, don’t panic. Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), a group that works on the ground in the Niger Delta...
View ArticleAljazeera: UN slams Shell over Nigeria pollution
Aljazeera produced this excellent video about Shell’s oil spills in Ogoni. In it, Ledum Mittee of MOSOP (the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) calls on the Nigerian government to revoke...
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Event: Fighting the Oil Giant, at The Phoenix Artists Club
Below is a message from Lifelines who are organising a great event in memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa. “Dear Friends, We have a remarkable line up for Lifelines’ next gig, Fighting The Oil Giant, to be held at...
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