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OIL WARS,ANGLO EXPLOITATION AT ITS WORST.
GREETINGS,
I REMEMBER AN INTERVIEW I HAD WITH PROFESSOR DOROTY FARDAN(A WHITE SCHOLAR OF ANTHROPOLY).SHE SAID THAT AMERICA MUST FALL BECAUSE IT WAS SO WICKED..SO UNJUST AND BUILT UPON THE BLOOD OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.SHE SAID THAT THE WHOLE OF THE ANGLO WORLD MUST FALL AND INFACT IS FALLING BECAUSE EVERYWHERE THE CAUCASIAN HAS GONE,HE HAS LEFT NOTHING BUT DEATH,DESTRUCTION,CONFUSION,EXPLOITATION..ECT.ALL IN THE NAME OF EMPERIALISM,EXPANSIONISM,AND SO-CALLED “PROGRESS”(YOU CAN CHECKOUT THAT INTERVIEW AT www.blogtalkradio.com/hiram1555(the show is called “the days of god and the redemption of man” @ hiram’s1555 blog presents;The Star & Crescent Report).he most definitely fits the bible’s description of him….”the devil”,”satan”,the “beast”,the “bloodshedder” ect….he hates black.IT IS AMAZING THAT IN THAT INTERVIEW PROFESSOR FARDAN SAID THAT EVERY SINCE THE CAUCASIAN HAS BEEN ON THE PLANET(AND SHE DATES IT A LITTLE OVER 6,000 YAERS) THEY HAVE SOWED SEEDS OF CORRUPTION,DECEIT,WICKEDNESS,AND CONTEMPT TOWARDS LIFE OR THE PRESERVATION THEREOF…SCHOLARS ARE AMAZED AT THE HISTORY OF THE CAUCASIAN,BECAUSE THEY WONDER WHY IS HIS HISTORY WRITTEN IN SO MUCH BLOOD…NOW IF WE LOOK IN ANY DIRECTION,WHERE EVER FIGHTING IS TAKING PLACE,HE IS THE INSTIGATOR AND HOPES TO PROFIT OFF OTHERS MISERIES;
Michelle Chen
Oil crisis: uprisings from Nigeria to Peru
In the past few days, the wars over the world’s natural resources have been rekindled from the Amazon to the Niger Delta.
This week, a landmark legal settlement brought a decisive, though partial, end to a bloody chapter in the history of Nigeria’s Ogoni people.
Shell agreed to a $15.5 million settlement in a lawsuit, brought in US federal court, accusing the company of massive human rights abuses. The case stemmed from the government executions of activists, including groundbreaking environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who resisted the company’s decades-long plunder of Nigeria’s natural resources. Although Shell did not officially acknowledge its complicity, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which helped litigate the suit, called the settlement a victory in the broader movement to hold corporations accountable on human rights.
Oil and gas development in the Niger Delta has devastated the region’s fragile ecosystem and left indigenous peoples in deep poverty.
About one third of the settlement award will go toward a development fund for the Ogoni people. But some, reports the Daily Independent of Lagos, were dismayed that the legal maneuver seems to have spared the company—with its deep history of imperialism and exploitation—from being fully brought to justice. One Ogoni activist expressed worry that the payout will not be primarily used to restore and provide closure to the Ogoni as a whole: “We are still waiting to see how events unfold. It is not only the Ogoni Nine that died in the struggle, and it will be a disaster if anybody thinks otherwise.”
There are already opportunities to test whether Wiwa v. Shell marks a real turning point in environmental and human rights struggles.
In Peru’s Bagua Province, a popular uprising has led to bloodshed and political chaos. Indigenous groups have protested against investment laws that threaten to carve up more of the Amazon rainforest for drilling and logging operations. After thousands tried to blockade an oil pipeline and highway last week, a deadly clash with riot police led to the deaths of 30 protesters and 24 police officers, according to the BBC.
Some activists say police have stolen and dumped bodies in the Marañón river in a cover-up attempt, reports IPS News. The government, meanwhile, continues its military clampdown, and publicly blames the violence on the Peruvian Rainforest Inter-Ethnic Development Association (AIDESEP), a broad federation of indigenous groups. AIDISEP leader Alberto Pizango has sought refuge with the Nicaraguan embassy in Lima.
The protesters were reportedly armed with spears, against the guns of the police. Edwin Montenegro, an activist representing the Amazon district of Condorcanqui, told IPS:
“After we draw up a list of our brothers and sisters who were killed, we will continue our protests… The government thinks that we have chickened out, but that will never happen. The blood of their brothers and sisters is an incentive to the Awajun people. The state has provoked us.”
With domestic politics taking center stage in Washington, the strife in Bagua may seem distant. But the investment policies, some of which have been suspended in the wake of the protests, are part of Peru’s effort to facilitate a lucrative business deal with the United States, the Peru Free Trade Agreement.
Will the future of indigenous struggles be channeled into legal battlegrounds, as with the Shell lawsuit—or will the failure of government to provide real redress inspire more direct action in defense of basic rights? A federal courtroom rendered one kind of victory for some of the most disenfranchised people in the Niger Delta. Would Congress go a step further in opening a space for human rights in the Amazon?
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