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	<title>Remember Saro Wiwa &#187; activism</title>
	<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com</link>
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		<title>Video: Chevron rig blazes off the coast of Nigeria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This disturbing video from Al Jazeera shows what&#8217;s left of Chevron&#8217;s KS Endeavour gas rig, which exploded on 16 January 2012. Over 20 days later the site is still ablaze and the intense flames and plumes of smoke can be seen from the nearby fishing village. Local community activists released this footage:   According to reports [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/video-chevron-rig-blazes-off-the-coast-of-nigeria/</link>
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		<title>Legal Oil, Ethical Oil and Profiteering in the Niger Delta and the Canadian North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this guest blog post, Professor Anna Zalik of York University Canada explores how governments and multinationals criminalise protest and gloss over the environmental injustices of oil extraction. Q: What does the Canadian Government’s fury at opponents of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline have to do with the Nigerian &#8216;legaloil&#8217; campaign? A: Both positions are about justifying private profits and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/legal-oil-ethical-oil-and-profiteering-in-the-niger-delta-and-the-canadian-north/</link>
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		<title>Protest Exposes Shell&#8217;s Grim Record on Human Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night Shell came face to face with its grim record on human rights in Nigeria at a corporate event for London&#8217;s bright young entrepreneurs. Protesters in haunting costumes from London Rising Tide stormed the Shell Live Wire event, unfurling a large banner and distributing leaflets to event attendees. Watch the video by you and i films here: The protest coincides with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/protest-exposes-shells-grim-record-on-human-rights/</link>
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		<title>A quick plug for our new (and beautiful) printed reports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Counting the Cost, Platform&#8217;s new report on Shell Nigeria, is now available in print! Please buy your copy here. The report looks and feels incredible, thanks to our amazing designers at Ultimate Holding Company. Buying a copy of the report enables Platform to do more campaigning for human rights and corporate accountability in Nigeria. Your support is already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/a-quick-plug-for-our-new-and-beautiful-printed-reports/</link>
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		<title>TAKE ACTION: Demand corporate accountability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Global Greengrants Fund has set  up an online petition calling on Shell to immediately clean up its appalling pollution in the Niger Delta and end its daily human rights abuses. The action has collected over 14,900 signatures since Wednesday 19 October. Let&#8217;s see if we can hit 20,000 by the end of the week! Please sign the petition now. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/take-action-demand-corporate-accountability/</link>
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		<title>Sweet Crude: the movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To an oil company, it&#8217;s liquid gold.&#8221; That&#8217;s how filmmaker Sandi Cioffi describes Nigerian oil, known as &#8216;sweet crude&#8217; because it is low in sulphur and therefore cheaper and easier to refine. The trailer below is for Sweet Crude, the film. An amazing and insightful documentary by Sandi Cioffi, it looks at the appalling legacy of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/sweet-crude-the-movie/</link>
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		<title>Niger Delta activist to stand trial in Holland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunny Ofehe, known as Comrade Sunny to his friends and colleagues, is to stand trial today in a Rotterdam court on charges of conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism. Ofehe was arrested on 22 February 2011, originally on &#8220;suspicion of people smuggling and forgery&#8221; and has been in detention since then. The Dutch authorities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/niger-delta-activist-to-stand-trial-in-holland/</link>
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		<title>Protesters Storm Shell Base at Kolo Creek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday 7 July, shortly after 6am, women and youth from communities in the Kolo Creek area of the Niger Delta protested against more than a decade of broken promises, oil spills and gas flaring from Shell. With only placards and palm fronds, peaceful protestors confronted heavily armed military soldiers and succeeded in breaching the gates of the Shell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/protesters-storm-shell-base-in-kolo-creek/</link>
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		<title>Podcasts from the Niger Delta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listen to PLATFORM&#8217;s series of podcasts marking 15 years since the execution of Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. The podcasts feature activists who are pushing for social change in the oil-producing Niger Delta. Introduction: Episode I: Fifteen Years of Not Getting Justice Episode II: Patrick&#8217;s Podcast Episode III: &#8220;Comrade Che&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/podcasts-from-the-niger-delta/</link>
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		<title>Event: &#8220;Violence on Trial&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Violence on Trial Thursday, April 28 · 6:00pm &#8211; 11:30pm Resistance Gallery, 265 Poyser Street, London E2 9RF Alongside a host of exciting speakers, PLATFORM will be presenting on oil, insurgency and &#8220;corporate violence&#8221; in Nigeria and beyond. Using the crisis between the Ogoni and Shell as a starting point, PLATFORM will be discussing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/event-violence-on-trial/</link>
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