The video Shell doesn’t want you to see…
May 5th, 2009 | Published in video | 89 Comments
This 8 1/2-minute mini-documentary is an excellent introduction to what is at stake in the upcoming Wiwa v. Shell trial. It was produced by Rikshaw Films for EarthRights International (ERI) & the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the plaintiffs’ co-counsel in the case.
Business as usual: Shell trying to suppress the truth. The video was a highlight of the WiwavShell.org website run by ERI & CCR to educate the public about the trial but it was recently removed. Investigation of public legal documents reveal that the video was removed under order from the trial judge after legal motions by Shell. Read the story about it on Huffington Post.
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On the www.WiwavShell.org page where this video is was presented, they offered “special thanks to filmmaker Glenn Ellis, for extensive footage from two important documentaries made by Catma Films, The Drilling Fields (1994) & Delta Force (1995), and to photographer Ed Kashi, for use of his photographs.”
May 8th, 2009 at 4:53 pm (#)
Unbelievable brutal murder and torture committed against the Nigerian poor, Environmental devastations.
What a wicked government who kills its own people in defense of oil rich company like shell.
justice need to be served and the world shall know all about this.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:53 am (#)
I am so upset about this. I am going to follow the trial, and I certainly hope that justice will be done and that Shell will suffer dire consequences for the atrocities they committed.
I really hope the day will come soon when we can get completely off oil. I am hoping for an affordable electric car to come on the market soon. I don’t want to give the oil compainies another dime.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:22 pm (#)
we only see the price at the pump. We need to see the true price for oil!!!! I will never bye a drop of shell gas ever!!!!
May 26th, 2009 at 9:16 pm (#)
THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE SHELL COMPANY ONLY CARE ABOUT MONEY. THE PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT MEAN NOTHING TO THEM.
THIS IS ONLY ONE COMPANY, OUT OF MANY THAT IS POLLUTING THE PLANET.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:52 pm (#)
“What a wicked government who kills its own people in defense of oil rich company like shell.”
Hmmm. There are a number of countries this statement applies to.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:10 am (#)
This is an amazing piece of work. I will hold the intention that it will serve the Nigerian people who deserve to be heard and that Shell Oil will be held accountable as well as the government of Nigeria.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:25 am (#)
I will be spreading the word about this…
May 28th, 2009 at 11:51 am (#)
Atrocities happen all over the world. And it is a horrible thing. But in a country such as Nigeria there are very few of these so called “peaceful protests” most of the time they have bloody massacres where men armed with simple machetes attack convoys of goin to and from the Niger delta. Dont believe me I am probably wrong but also dont believe everything you see on the internet do research and dont be ignorant just because your friend sent you some link doesnt make it true
May 28th, 2009 at 1:31 pm (#)
Shell is hell
May 28th, 2009 at 2:09 pm (#)
OK let me see if I have this right. Shell contracted with the government of Nigeria to drill for oil and run pipes through the country. The Nigerian government were a bunch of thugs who did awful things to the civilians of their country. Shell had them provide protection for them while they worked. Shell is in trouble for what the Nigerian government did to it’s people? While I think it is terrible what has happened, I don’t see how Shell is responsible. Those that agree with this logically should then be for prosecuting President Obama for crimes against humanity for what happened in the UAE and going ahead with the deal to give them the power plant. You people are delusional anti-capitalist not pro-human rights.
May 28th, 2009 at 3:15 pm (#)
Ill spread the word! This has to be put out there! Thanks for making this movie!
May 28th, 2009 at 6:13 pm (#)
They should close a loop hole in the system. If you are an American business then the same rules applied in the states, applies if you do business abroad. many nasty businesses go abroad, and treat the locals like dogs. They get away with far more abroad, than what they do in the States. The ugly truth is most places abroad, do nothing about it. The States ignore it.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:20 am (#)
A very well done but brief documentary. I will never buy Shell Gasoline again. Absolutely disgusting how a gov’t cares more about money than its people, although we know this is more often true than we’d like to admit. I hope the plaintiffs win again the brutal, inhumane gov’t of Nigeria.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:28 am (#)
Our addiction to oil has corrupted our people and done enormous harm to indigenous people throughout the world - most especially in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in Nigeria. Send money and write letters in support of the people of Nigeria. We must do everything we can to support development of alternative sources of energy.
May 29th, 2009 at 4:10 am (#)
If WHITE people did this to BLACK people, the entire world would be outraged.
Instead, the white elites who make the money for BIG OIL hire their Black housemen to oppress other Black people just like in slavery times.
President Obama is of African origins. Why doesn’t HE protest this mistreatment? He IS the FIRST REAL BLACK PRESIDENT — WHY DOESN’T HE DO SOMETHING?
And what message is Obama’s inaction to Black oppression sending to the African Americans who loved him and believed in his agenda of HOPE and CHANGE?
Just imagine, BIG OIL is doing this to BLACK people NOW. SOON, they can be coming for YOU!
May 29th, 2009 at 4:15 am (#)
The US multi-nationals and domestic corporations engage in similar human rights violations. (See: Mexican people vs Coca Cola and the local governments versus immigrants for starters.) It’s easy for Americans to shake pitchforks at evil “outsiders,” but not as easy for us to look in the mirror and see what goes on in our names.
So I hope that for Americans watching this, it not only wakes them up to atrocities committed by Shell against the Ogoni, but also makes them think about the broader implications of what many multinationals do to increase profits at the cost of human lives.
May 29th, 2009 at 4:33 am (#)
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May 29th, 2009 at 6:16 am (#)
Never mind being shocked and appalled, send money to the organizations involved in this cause $1, $5, $10 will help more than lip service!
May 29th, 2009 at 7:12 am (#)
Apparently YouTube has now also taken down the video.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:15 am (#)
Be assured that the content of this video will be transalated in french so that the people of Québec will participate in the boycott of this criminal corporation (more and more…criminal, corporation, two words, one pleonasm).
Robert de Québec
May 29th, 2009 at 7:51 am (#)
I wonder why the big corporate media in the USA isn’t reporting this gut wrenching story? Just think . . . their mission to inform the people could be fulfilled, in part, by shocking the citizenry out of their complacency and airing the truth about corporate mass murder, destruction and mayhem. Who knows, there might even be an employee or two of Shell who would be surprised by the vicious bloodlust and fealty to evil of their own management team. Oh wait a minute . . . Shell spends truckloads of money on advertising on the news networks and, like most big oil companies, dictates what will be presented as news and how? Move along, move along . . . nothing to see here . . .
May 29th, 2009 at 9:37 am (#)
screw shell. i will boycott them. this is terrible. greedy corporations that have everything and still want more.
May 29th, 2009 at 9:42 am (#)
SHELL OIL is complicit in this, and probably other, incidences of severe rights abuses of the peoples of Ogoni. If Shell is not held accountable in this trial, every rights activist in the world will be on their case. It is time for these illegal muliti-national corporations be struck down by the legal entities of the world. Take away their rights to the resources of this land and any other place around the world where they have illegally take resources from the people. THE WORLD IS WATCHING! CORPORATIONS DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO RAPE OUR PLANET! THEY WILL BE STOPPED!
May 29th, 2009 at 9:43 am (#)
We must contact our congressmen, write a letter to a local paper, and get the word out anyway we can. I did not know about this until I got this e-mail and I am sure many others don’t know either.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:49 am (#)
Richard North Patterson in his latest historical novel “Eclipse” told this story with the names changed.
I have refused to use Shell for 50 years for other reasons.
Reading his book you just knew what oil company was involved. Justice will finally be accomplished.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:34 pm (#)
Unbelievable savagery… and done in the name of ammoral corp-rat profiteering. I shall never again buy a $hell product after seeing this. This is outrageous. What is wrong with Amerika’s corp-rat kulture?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:40 pm (#)
I can only imagine the bravery it must take to speak out against a brutal military dictatorship and a ruthless international corporation. It is no wonder why we Americans are so hated. Our corporate and our military actions around the world are shameful.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pm (#)
The real price of gas is hidden from you it is still easy to find. Just Google “the real price of gasoline” and find out that you are paying 4 times the pump price while others are paying with their lives.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:09 pm (#)
If only the truth were known, we’d find that the United States armed and supplied the thugs that pass for the military in Nigeria. And our State Department fully endorses the actions of the Nigerian government. The blood and the misery of the Ogoni people is on our hands because we cannot control our own government. Shell may as well be an arm of our government, because everything they do they do in our name, whether we like it or not.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:35 pm (#)
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May 29th, 2009 at 7:43 pm (#)
Nigeria is governed by people, and money can buy anyone and anything. NO excepts.
May 29th, 2009 at 8:19 pm (#)
That does it - I won’t buy any Shell gas ever again.
May 29th, 2009 at 8:39 pm (#)
welcome to the human race…unless they have an army or have the ability to capture thousands of their murders on video and broadcast it to the world, they are going to have to suck it up…there is no justice on a planet of apes
May 29th, 2009 at 9:32 pm (#)
I haven’t set foot in a Shell station in 15 years. If the US press did it’s job, they’d be out of business here by now. Unbelievable.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:16 pm (#)
In “The Corporation,” a brilliant Canadian documentary from 2003, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, the former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, is interviewed about his company. Stuart is a model of reason and calm, asserting that RDS has been doing its best for the environment and Nigeria, and that RDS’s protesters are the unreasonable people.
Until he’s asked about RDS’s responsibility for the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa; then, Stuart’s facade cracks and he stutters and fumbles an attempted response. It’s a very telling display of guilt.
Why do we allow corporations to destroy us and our world? Why not do the obvious: Revoke their corporate charters, thus dissolving them. Corporations are legitimized by our governments, governments (theoretically) by the people, for the people.
Why shouldn’t we dissolve a corporation that has become criminal and sentence its principals based on their actions?
May 30th, 2009 at 2:11 am (#)
What good is the United Nations . They should be outraged at this. Where is the Press , Where are the congressmen or are they to busy with fighting among themselves to care,
This is a world of greed and to hell with the poor peopleof the world.
May 30th, 2009 at 9:54 am (#)
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May 30th, 2009 at 2:18 pm (#)
So THIS is why Venezuela’s brilliant (and brave) President Hugo Chavez threw out Shell and Exxon from his country back in 2004-5(?)
Saying at the time that “Venezuelan petro products belong TO THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE”.
I believe that’s what got him his lifetime term. People aren’t stupid–just poor. Poor due to the “Shell”s, and the Exxon-Mobil’s, of the world; in Venezuela now, gas at the pump is A NICKEL A GALLON!
President Chavez–YOU ROCK!
May 30th, 2009 at 6:51 pm (#)
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May 30th, 2009 at 6:54 pm (#)
Greed = Death / Misery / destruction /
May 31st, 2009 at 5:07 am (#)
One word for the Oil Industry,, “Nationalization”
May 31st, 2009 at 7:20 am (#)
In case no one remembers, Shell supported aparthied during the Reagan-Bush era. They have a poor track record. They don’t seem to have any regard for human rights. I always check to make sure I’m not buying shell products. I say put these bastards out of business. Shut them down by boycotting every thing they produce. Nigeria has one of the most inhumane governments on earth. “Go Green!”
May 31st, 2009 at 3:42 pm (#)
It starts with humanity’s dependance on oil and oil’s derivatives. Eventually the Earth’s resources of oil will be exhausted. There are alternative fuels available now. Sooner or later the research and development into the new technologies will need to be undertaken.
May 31st, 2009 at 3:42 pm (#)
The Queen of The Netherlands (Queen Beatrice) is the largest shareholder in Shell. Already a Billionaire many times over from birth, her infamous money-grasping manner and eye-watering frugality ensures Shell will always push to the max for every dollar. She is the ultimate personification of Shell and should be the target of ire, not the faceless Corporation itself…
May 31st, 2009 at 4:33 pm (#)
So ashamed to be a human!
May 31st, 2009 at 6:58 pm (#)
I am going to go out of my way to not buy Shell gas again, not like it was the cheapest or best or anything anyway. I mean seriously, I’m sure they’re all bad but I know about this now, so I guess I’ll get Hess or BP or anyone else instead if possible.
We should throw Patrick Fitzgerald at them!
May 31st, 2009 at 7:00 pm (#)
80% of Nigerian oil is extracted from the Niger Valley.
The so called Pirates started out by robbing to pay for the clean up their government refused to do. But then the bad guys took over. But our media refused to tewll the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Even Olbermann and Maddow ignored the truth when I sent it to them.
‘Toxic waste’ behind Somali piracy
By Najad Abdullahi
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Somali pirates have accused European firms of dumping toxic waste off the Somali coast and are demanding an $8m ransom for the return of a Ukranian ship they captured, saying the money will go towards cleaning up the waste.
The ransom demand is a means of “reacting to the toxic waste that has been continually dumped on the shores of our country for nearly 20 years”, Januna Ali Jama, a spokesman for the pirates, based in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, said.
“The Somali coastline has been destroyed, and we believe this money is nothing compared to the devastation that we have seen on the seas.”
The pirates are holding the MV Faina, a Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and military hardware, off Somalia’s northern coast.
According to the International Maritime Bureau, 61 attacks by pirates have been reported since the start of the year.
While money is the primary objective of the hijackings, claims of the continued environmental destruction off Somalia’s coast have been largely ignored by the regions’s maritime authorities.
Dumping allegations
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy for Somalia confirmed to Al Jazeera the world body has “reliable information” that European and Asian companies are dumping toxic waste, including nuclear waste, off the Somali coastline.
“I must stress however, that no government has endorsed this act, and that private companies and individuals acting alone are responsible,” he said
Continued http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/10/2008109174223218644.html
Nigeria Sets Up Halliburton Bribery Panel, but Analyst Says All a Publicity Stunt
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-04-16-voa6.cfm
Niger Delta TV. It’s not your MSM info-tainment crap.
http://archive.wn.com/2009/05/18/1400/nigerdeltatv/
Oil Giant Shell on Trial for Nigerian Environmentalist Saro-Wiwa’s Execution
http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/26/oil-giant-shell-on-trial-for-nigerian-environmentalist-saro-wiwas-execution/
14 years after Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death, family points finger at Shell in court
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/27/ken-saro-wiwa-shell-oil
June 1st, 2009 at 6:34 am (#)
what a shame SHELL! I will never again in my life buy a shell product and that is what all Human beings must try to do to BOICOT NOT CONSUMING THEIR DIABLE OIL
this BLOOD MULTINATIONALS that only car about BOURSE BENEFITS and care a shit about HUMANS LIFE and ENVIRONMENT
THEY ARE ALSO DESTROYING THE PLANET, all my support and respect to people that are fighting against this terrible things not only in this part of the world but in all AFRICA
and the whole entire planet.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:28 am (#)
[...] Beginning last Thursday, news of the impending trial and the video shot around the web. The video has been seen more than 60,000 times since Thursday. The video and article can be viewed here: http://www.shellguilty.com/wiwa-v-shell-video/ [...]
June 1st, 2009 at 8:25 am (#)
If Shell doesn’t pay for its mistakes, it will just give the other oil companies the right of way to do whatever they want. Just like the Brazilian oil company wants to do in Peru.
http://intercontinentalcry.org/peru-indigenous-people-declaring-the-real-state-of-emergency/
June 1st, 2009 at 10:15 am (#)
The corporations that do this to them will do it to you. The corporations and the governments are partners in death and crime against humanity and this is normal and correct with governments and corporations that work their deeds together and in the shadows. Look how easy it is for those who don’t live there to ignore their plight? Yet it was the early corporations that slithered over here in the form of robber barons and rich, chartered industrialists that have been doing it to all of us for a long time. They can’t be as extreme when you can fight back but we all eat toxic food, medicated water and live by FEMA rules. What will we do?
June 1st, 2009 at 10:26 am (#)
NoOneYouKnow says: Why do we allow corporations to destroy us and our world? Why not do the obvious: Revoke their corporate charters, thus dissolving them. Corporations are legitimized by our governments, governments (theoretically) by the people, for the people. WELL, I think it is because the Congress/Governments are bought and paid for. They all are subject to weakness and vices that can be exploited for blackmail and threats. They slither along with their corporate/government/banker/lawyer cohorts and consider themselves the players for the world’s control of wealth and resources. Like a person being tazered repeatedly until unconscious, corporations, being persons, must be handled in the same way. We know what fetid and rotten corporations, collaborators must GO.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:41 pm (#)
I have been hearing about all of the wrong things that shell oil company was doing. However, I never dreamed that such horror and pain was and still is being done to the good people of this African country. It makes me sick to know that this greedy oil company would rather place more respect for “dirty money, that to respect people and their land. What if things were different, and some greedy company simply barged onto THEIR homeland, destroyed their land, and poisened their water,andstamped out their way of life…what would they do??? I WILL NOT PURCHASE SHELL OIL, AND WILL TELL ALL OF MY CO-WORKERS TO VIEW THIS DISCUSTING ARTICLE…CONCERNING SHELL OIL COMPANY. In closing, I am very shocked, saddened, and at a lost for words, to know that there are still companies in this world that simply refuse to respect other people’s culture, and way of life. Instead they continue to force their way of doing things, such as paying other native people money in order to do their “dirty work!” It’s such a shame that this shell oil company has an infested disease….called GREED! I am also sickened by the fact that the policemen sided along with the shell oil company, and allowed themselves to be bribed the money that shell oil company gave them, in order to silence, and kill their “OWN” people. This is simply unthinkable!! Well, I will follow this shell oil story, and also urge others to do the same.
SHAME……SHAME……SHAME…… ON GREEDY SHELL OIL
June 1st, 2009 at 9:59 pm (#)
Thank you for exposing all of the atrocities that shell oil company has been doing, and continues to do.
The documentary is excellent, and I hope that you will continue to put great heat under the crooked Nigerian Government, and most of all keep most great heat on the “GREEDY’ shell oil company.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 am (#)
“money is seen as wicked therefore has a fasanation, when it ceases to have this fasination then it and its greed seekers will wither and die.Liam Sheehy
As some of you are aware Shell are using similar tactics in Ireland where stupid sucessive Governments gave Shell a liscence to print money at the Irish Taxpayers expence 540 million to be presice.Their strong arm tactics have the support of the current Government shame on them see Shell to Sea
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm (#)
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June 2nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm (#)
It is vitally important for this video to be disseminated as widely as possible. Remember the Brent Spar: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/the-brent-spar? If people through collective protest managed to bring Shell to its knees then, can they not do it again?
Also remember that there are many other multinationals out there responsible for human rights abuses and environmental destruction on a grand scale. Here is hoping for their day in a court of law.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 am (#)
I expect a film about Dr Rice’s Chevron would be pretty much the same barbarity against them.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:42 am (#)
The brutal government is one thing. A corporation that stands behind a brutal government such as this and uses it’s military to pursue thier goals is another. So much for world trade! It’s the rich stealing from the poor! We should all stop buying gas from Shell,I know I will.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 am (#)
Hmmm. Let’s see, Military complicity in the takeover of a country so that Shell can have more profits? Which Oil Company now has the rights to all that oil in Iraq that the US didn’t go to war to secure?
Nahhh… it couldn’t be Shell could it?
I can foresee the time when these corporations will try to control the wind and the sun, and when they can’t they will destroy everything. Until nobody drives a car and money is worth NOTHING to ANYONE, this will fester year by year.
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:08 am (#)
I think the organizers of this campaign that exposes such a sadistic crime against the powerless, the defenseless, the poor, and the most vulnerables around the world deserved honest praise and support from every person born of mother and father. So that these high power predator’s crimes against humanity shall not go unpunished, not withstanding where or when it occur.
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:16 am (#)
I am disgusted and sickened by the film, but not surprised. In my quarter-century of watching, Greed has become ‘respectable’ and Profits justify almost any actions, Corporate and Governmental(Oh wait—they’re mostly the same). Blatant murder, looting and pilaging such as we see in Nigeria and Darfur and Iraq must be the shocks that move We the People to take action…
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 am (#)
More corporate greed,rape pillage,now murder! How low can you go Shell? Wow! How horrible! I am passing this on,and will not buy from Shell.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:54 pm (#)
I never buy Shell oil anyway, but now I have the reasons why more clearly in my head.
They should not be allowed to get away with this.
This trial is significant and important far beyond the lands held by Cheney and Bush.
We are the future. We are Obama’s people. We will prevail
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:40 pm (#)
I will never buy Shell gas/oil ever again. Absolutely disgusting. I hope Ken’s family and the others get justice, in this world or the next
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm (#)
the sooner we start loopholing the Business Act to make irresponsible fat cats personally responsible for attrocities the sooner we can start rebuilding, it’s the most upsetting joke in the history of the world and it just saddens me so much, it’s like we’ve been living in the bloody matirx for 100 yrs. The time is now and we deserve more than hope.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:42 pm (#)
Unfortunately too believable, even though I’d like not to think this type of greediness wasn’t possible esp from an American company. I don’t think we buy shell products but now I’ll be sure we don;’t. And I’ll tell everyone I know about this video so they will boycott them too!
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:10 pm (#)
Having seen this excellent documentary, I vow that I shall pass this information on to others, and I shall follow the trial, and I shall hold as my intention the speedy success of the Ogoni people to their land.
Erica
June 4th, 2009 at 12:28 am (#)
I have worked for Shell since 1992, more familiar with Brent Spar as I worked in Aberdeen at the time, although I have many friends & colleagues from Nigeria or who have worked there. Nothing is more important to me than PEOPLE & it’s important to me that Shell’s core values are honesty, integrity and respect for people, principles which I try to uphold in my work. From the video, Ken Saro-Wiwa was an inspirational leader and wonderful person and his execution was shocking and tragic to all of us. Working for a corporation like Shell, involved with governments around the world, generally, I have confidence in world leaders and optimism that we are making progress across the world in good governance, sustainable development & the rule of law. But there will be set-backs and exceptions, particularly military dictatorships and extremists, which present real dilemmas about how to approach. I have faith in the US legal system & hope that the court case may provide some transparency and truth over the tragic events in Nigeria 14 years ago.
June 4th, 2009 at 2:26 am (#)
This is the most horrific happening to a humble people, when
does the wickedness end. Shell Oil has been disregarding
and unthinkable since aparheid in South Africa.
Shame on the minds of these people that would do anything
in the name of Monetary evils. God help the Ogoni people
and bring justice to them.
SHELL NO MORE!
June 4th, 2009 at 3:19 am (#)
And so…. shell has managed to be persuasive in making the film unavailable. Surely a sign they have something to fear!
June 4th, 2009 at 3:22 am (#)
And so…. shell has managed to be persuasive in making the film unavailable. Surely a sign they have something to hide!
June 4th, 2009 at 8:51 am (#)
i’ve boycotted shell since the mid 90s for their complicity in this awful greed-driven unjustice. i’m thrilled to hear that they’re finally being brought to court. i’ll follow the proceedings with great interest, and spread the word far and wide.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:31 am (#)
We can get others to join the boycott of Shell. Here’s how:
Print this link on business cards. Take the cards to Shell gas stations. Leave them on the pumps. Better yet, if you have a laptop, show this video to people on college campuses and other places. Offer food and cards with the link to this video. What would it cost to print this link on pens and pencils? magnetic bumperstickers? What would it cost not to? Think of the woman whose arm was shot off. No anesthetic. Who’ll be next?
http://www.shellguilty.com/wiwa-v-shell-video/
June 5th, 2009 at 1:00 pm (#)
5 June 2009
I will continue to spread the word about this.
A LUTA CONTINUA
m
June 6th, 2009 at 9:52 am (#)
Hey, are you aware that the sound on this video
is not coming through? No, it is not my system
that is not working…for I can get sound on other
things.
Thanks
On the http://www.WiwavShell.org page where this video is was presented, they offered “special thanks to filmmaker Glenn Ellis, for extensive footage from two important documentaries made by Catma Films, The Drilling Fields (1994) & Delta Force (1995), and to photographer Ed Kashi, for use of his photographs.”
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June 6th, 2009 at 9:54 am (#)
Another thought: can you rally Amnesty INternational
to put pressure on this whole matter…?
I had an African friend who was actually saved
by them. And, they put pressure on gov’ts for
tried prisoners…why not moreso for a whole village
of people losing their land, and the murder of
a spokesperson… I think it’s worth a try.
I’d like to send a check - can you mail me something?
Ava Neal
1226 N. Layman Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46219
317-356-0960
June 6th, 2009 at 8:43 pm (#)
I am reading the Richard North Patterson novel Eclipse about this event. It gives a personal touch to a heartrending saga of real life events. Reading it brings one up close and personal to the fact that actual people lived through this enormously ugly and brutal period, which Shell was complicit in. His novel Conviction is amazingly being played our now in Savannah, where a man convicted of murdering a policeman is likely innocent but his appeals are running short. Uncanny!
June 7th, 2009 at 11:43 am (#)
A similar situtaion has been developing In Rossport, County Mayo Ireland in recent years.
For the full story and the latest on this, go to: http://www.corribsos.com
June 8th, 2009 at 10:50 am (#)
Despite all the atrocities perpetrated by Shell in Ogoniland, the company is still not relenting in its effort to maintain control over the Ogoni oil and gas through every means possible as if the ownership of the Ogoni oil is its birthright. Meanwhile, they maintain their false pretense on the pages of newspapers as if they have nothing to do with Ogoni oil anymore unless the Ogoni people accept them(Shell)back. But behind the scene they’re scheming with all amount of fierceness like an hungry Lions. To the point of threatening the Nigeria’s erratic Government for retribution if denied Shell the Ogoni oil and gas without accepting its hand pick new operator(s), that will accept joint ventures with Shell without Shell actual presence in Ogoniland. Following the Announcement last year by the Nigeria government that Shell will be change from been the oil company in Ogoniland, because their relationship with the Ogoni people was no longer sustainable. But Shell is not accepting that obviousness in the open, instead vowed to do every possible to remain the main player in Ogoni. As a matter of fact, I have some records of Shell clandestine activities in Ogoniland through my trip to Ogoni few months back.
June 9th, 2009 at 7:13 am (#)
Blood for oil? Sounds like the unprovoked attack and take over of Iraq. Until the world holds government and corporate criminals accountable for such acts these autocracies will continue. But is such a level of civilization attainable? As for sending money to help Nigerians - there is millions of dollars going to the criminals over there with their enormous con industry (mostly phony email scams). Better to send funds to anyone who can help stop the raping of young children in Zimbabwe where the men believe that the rape of virgins cures AIDS - or send money to other areas of Africa where the witch doctors kill and dismember hundreds of Albino Africans to sell the grisly parts to people who think it will bring them good fortune. Helping Africans often seems like a game of ‘Whack-a -Mole’.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:39 pm (#)
“Corporate Social Responsibility” is a sham and Shell’s self-proclaimed commitment to Sustainable Development is a lie. Disgraced Shell CEO Phil Watts was knighted by HM The Queen for his work on Sustainable Development - and yet he was in Nigeria for some years heading up much of the Ogoni land project. Shell is still not telling the truth about Nigeria - or almost anything else for that matter!
June 11th, 2009 at 11:05 am (#)
Although shell is front and centre in Nigeria, lets not forget the problem goes much deeper than that. The entire fossil fuel industry, has in the past and continues to conspire against clean energy such as wind and solar. Their worst nightmare is each person being able to capture the energy they need for their home and transportation from clean and free energy sources. A small turbine can in most cases provide the energy needed for a family to run their day to day lives, without having to pay somebody. Taking profits out of their hands, with energy independance is the best weapon to make fossil fuels unprofitable for the poluters. Turbines have one moving part, and can generaly be home made at very low cost. The energy storage technologies are developing at a furious rate, and I encourage everybody who can to think very seriously of switching from carbon based energy to clean and renewable forms available to everybody everywhere.
The time has come to take back what was taken away from us trough the conspiracy of greed by the few wealthy people who control the carbon energy that does so much harm to all peoples of the world.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:40 pm (#)
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June 13th, 2009 at 8:15 am (#)
[...] The video Shell doesn’t want you to see… (they had it suppressed) [...]
June 17th, 2009 at 6:05 am (#)
The corporate formula rules! Once again, corporate law, the law for accumulated riches applies! America has lost even its own sons and daughters in the Arab Princes’ war-games and foreign religious concerns, for oil! A couple of keffer dying in the bushes makes no difference to the fat cat Yankee Doodle, cruising down the highway in his air conditioned V-8 car! He has corporate law to absolve him of guilt, because his money is “Cleansed” by the corporation between him and his investments! Even if his skin is black, he enjoys the corporate investment tool disconnect to the horrendous injustices in the world! Shell, Monsanto, Bayer, and many others make a ROI (return on investment) for American and other interests, who by means of the guilt absolving corporation, proceed to rape the world! Funny, GM-America goes broke and punishes its labor force, rapes America of its manufacturing figure-head, simultaneously, GM-China make money had over fist and intends importing Chinese cars to the U.S., all the while, the big investment money transferred from U.S. dollars, New York Exchange to ‘Yuan”, Shanghai and Beijing exchanges! This rapes and beats the Americans, in the name of ROI, which rules the free world today. The U.S.S.R. tried to take a different stand, and failed miserably in short order,due to lack of capital. The Chinese have found a new formula for the original Capitalist dream-formula, and so far it succeeds by semi-enslavement of its people only. World governments are toothless tigers, and greed and exploitation, plundering and raping on all levels - ROI the king over all, remains the silent engine behind man’s activities on Earth.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm (#)
I have rarely bought fuel from Shell and hopefully never will again
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:51 pm (#)
this clip is obviously biased. Shell was not involved with this at all. If anything, the gov’t is the one to blame. Anyhow, I think it’s quite alright if some the folks here refuse to buy Shell products in the future. No hard feelings.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:50 am (#)
[...] The video Shell doesn’t want you to see… :: Shell Guilty. [...]