Tings Dey Happen - Theatre Production on Niger Delta and Oil


	Tings Dey Happen - Theatre Production on Niger Delta and Oil

pickinjava

12-1-2007 7:42 AM

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nigeria, petroleum industry, shell, chevron

pickinjava says:

"It is easier to manage war than work for peace." The anthem of multinational petroleum corporations, African government elite, and their Western military backers?

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If you do not feel genuinely sad for the real life human being after whom Hoyle's Okosi, the sniper with a heart and a dream, is modeled, then you would be even more of a dangerous reptile than the Nigerian soldiers who daily rain terror on poor villagers in a bid to pacify the Delta for continued oil extraction. Or, for that matter, the U.S. ambassador, whose disembodied diplomatese is as deadly as the fumes from gas flares by the oil companies.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=40252">What, he wanted to know, were U.S. citizens doing to prevent blood oil from underwriting their comfort? Did they not know that their love affair with the automobile made it possible for the people of the Niger Delta to be further repressed?</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8B85CB8C-8375-43DD-A467-2C94CCC95C18/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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