[IMC-Boston-Dispatch] Fwd: FRIDAY SEP 23 The Price of Oil featuring Ken Wiwa

[Pete Stidman]

--- Jeff Rosenblum <rosenblum.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:56:59 -0400
> From: Jeff Rosenblum <rosenblum.jeff at gmail.com>
> To: Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com>, Chella Rajan
> <crajan at tellus.org>, 
>  Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com>,
>  "Larry Slotnick (E-mail)" <ljslotnick at yahoo.com>, 
>  Ona Ferguson <onaferguson at hotmail.com>,
>  wally ward <clay_ward at hotmail.com>, 
> julian at undergrad.com, 
>  tlosier at groundwork-usa.org, Mira Brown
> <mira at bikesnotbombs.org>, 
>  Arik Grier <arik at bikesnotbombs.org>,
>   matt at bikesnotbombs.org, Carl Kurz
> <carl at bikesnotbombs.org>, 
>  gene at ace-ej.org
> Subject: FRIDAY SEP 23   The Price of Oil featuring
> Ken Wiwa
> 
> somewhat depressing, but an important insight into
> our oil issues. I 
> heard Ken speak at CMU I think, about 1998, more
> recently after his 
> father was killed.
> 
> Mira,Carl,Arik,Matt: I think this is worth sending
> out to the BNB 
> listserve, and bringing BNB newsletters and
> membership information for 
> people to take who come to this.
> 
> jeff
> 
> 
>                   Amnesty International's MIT
> student chapter
>                    The Boston Student Cluster
> invites you to
> 
>         Join us for an evening with human rights
> activist and journalist
>     Ken Wiwa for The Price of Oil, a tribute to the
> life and legacy of his
>                              father Ken Saro-Wiwa.
> 
>         Ken Wiwa and other experts will discuss the
> Niger Delta peoples'
>   struggle for justice, and the real "price of oil"
> on Africa, the
>   environment, and all of us.
> 
>                            Friday September 23, 2005
>                                     32-123
>   (Kirsch Auditorium at Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology's Stata 
> Center)
> 
> 
>                              Program 5:30pm-7:30pm
> 
>    (performances and selections from Saro-Wiwa's
> novels & plays, testimonies
>     inspired by Ken and photographs by renowned
> photojournalist Ed Kashi).
> 
>   November 10, 2005 marks the Tenth Anniversary of
> the executions of Ken
>   Saro-Wiwa and eight colleagues their only crime
> was organizing against
>   the pollution and repression of Shell and the
> Nigerian military.  In the
>   ensuing decade, much has changed, but more has
> not.  Nigeria has emerged
>   from decades of military rule, and is now a
> nascent democracy.  Yet Ken
>   Saro-Wiwa and others remain convicted of a crime
> they did not commit, oil
>   companies continue to pollute Ogoni and the Niger
> Delta with impunity 
> while
>   poverty, and growing instability plague Delta
> communities.  Globally, oil
>   dominates world affairs, in conflict, climate,
> finance and development.
>   Ten years on, Ogoni, the Delta, Nigeria, and the
> world still need Ken
>   Saro-Wiwa.
> 
>   Tour sponsored by: Oil Change International,
> Amnesty USA, Center for
>   Constitutional Rights, Earthrights International,
> Rainforest Action
>   Network, Sierra Club, Tufts University African
> Studies Dept., and the Ken
>   Saro-Wiwa Foundation.
> 
> 
> 


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