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The Price of Oil

On November 10th, 1995, human rights activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged in Nigeria. His only crime was protesting non-violently against an oil company and demanding his rights.

Today, ten years later, the Price of Oil is higher than ever.

Please join us this Tuesday evening, September 20th, in St. Illuminator's Hall (221 East 27th Street) at 6pm to recall Ken Saro-Wiwa and the eight other Ogoni men who were hanged beside him. The "Price of Oil" program will feature prominent human rights speakers who will help us rededicate and re-energize ourselves for continuing struggles around oil in Nigeria
and the US.

"The Price of Oil"
Tuesday September 20th
New York City
St. Illuminator’s Hall (221 East 27th Street)
6 pm to 8 pm
Free Admission
FEATURING: Ken Wiwa, Amy Goodman, & Ka Hsaw Wa.

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Ken Wiwa, the eldest son of the late Ken Saro-Wiwa, is an influential young human rights activist, author and broadcaster. Ken Wiwa's first book, In the Shadow of a Saint, was published to critical acclaim and won the 2002 Hurston-Wright Non-Fiction Award.

Amy Goodman is an award-winning journalist and host of the national, daily, independent news program, "Democracy Now!" Her radio documentary, "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship," exposed Chevron's role in the killing of two Nigerian villagers in the Niger Delta and won the George Polk Award, the Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and a Project Censored award.

Ka Hsaw Wa, one of the leaders of the nationwide student uprising in Burmain 1988, is a human rights activist and recipient of the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Goldman Environmental Prize, and the Sting and Trudy Styler Award for Human Rights and the Environment. As Executive Director
of EarthRights International, he was instrumental in the recently settled, landmark lawsuit, Doe v. Unocal. EarthRights International is co-counsel in a similar lawsuit against Shell for its complicity in the deaths of
Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni people (see
http://www.earthrights.org/shell/index.shtml).

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The human, environmental, and monetary "Price of Oil" is higher than ever.
Ken Saro-Wiwa's last words were “Lord take my soul, but the struggle
continues." Help us continue Ken Saro-Wiwa's great struggle. Join us
this Tuesday evening, and help spread the word.

The "Price of Oil" is sponsored by:
Oil Change International
Amnesty USA
Center for Constitutional Rights
Earthrights International
Rainforest Action Network
Sierra Club
The Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation

Starts09/19/2005
Ends09/21/2005
IssuesInternational, Politics/Government, Africa, Middle East, U.S./Foreign Relations
Homepage
Contacthuman-rights-center@forums.nyu.edu

Posted on September 26, 2005 in Film / Screening by Anayansi