Art Not Oil

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Outside Shell's AGM, (UK leg, Barbican, London, 19.5.09

New global campaign launches: ShellGuilty
In May 2009, multinational oil giant Shell will stand trial in United States federal court to answer to charges that it conspired in human rights abuses – including murder – in Nigeria in the 1990s.

But Shell’s crimes didn’t end there. We’re launching a campaign to demand that Shell cease and desist the human rights and corporate climate crimes it continues to commit.

Shell must come clean:

Stop gas flaring in Nigeria, a practice devastating to the environment and human health, and a significant contributor to global warming.
Disclose its role in the abuses committed against the Ogoni people in Nigeria, including the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9.
The ShellGuilty coalition includes Friends of the Earth, Oil Change International, and PLATFORM/Remember Saro-Wiwa

The ShellGuilty coalition will soon launch a major new initiative to turn up the heat on Shell and press for an end to its gas flaring in Nigeria, an environmental abuse which Ken Saro-Wiwa and many other Ogoni ultimately gave their lives trying to stop.

Get involved:

We will be announcing campaign actions soon and need you to join us: sign up for email updates at the website shellguilty.com.

Get 9 friends to sign up, to remember the Ogoni 9

Supporting Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9
Dear friends,
A landmark human rights trial is opening in a few weeks in U.S. federal court, where oil giant Royal Dutch Shell will answer to charges that it colluded with the Nigerian military to commit egregious human rights abuses, including the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the leader of a human rights and environmental justice movement in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta. Ken Saro-Wiwa was, was a recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize. In solidarity, I'm writing to ask you to support this important campaign for justice and accountability.

Please watch a short video now about Ken Saro-Wiwa and the case against Shell at  http://wiwavshell.org/video

Filed over a dozen years ago, Wiwa v. Shell seeks to hold Shell accountable for its complicity in egregious human rights abuses in Nigeria, including murder, torture, and extrajudicial executions, and the destruction of villages throughout the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta. The cases charge Royal Dutch Shell and a key Shell official for complicity with the Nigerian military government in attacks on peaceful protesters and the November 10, 1995 hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other leaders in the nonviolent opposition to Shell’s pattern of human rights abuses and environmental destruction.

Please help bring about justice for Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni people by helping to spread the word. Visit the new campaign website,  http://WiwavShell.org, and watch the video at  http://WiwavShell.org/video, and then forward this email on to your friends, family, and colleagues.

You can also:

- Post the links on facebook, myspace, Twitter or any other social networking sites you use

- Join "The Case Against Shell” Cause on Facebook at



 http://apps.facebook.com/causes/192275/886303 and invite your friends to join.

- Visit www.WiwavShell.org to learn more and find other ways you can support this case.