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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Corporate Watch</title>
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		<title>Multinationals on trial</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/multinationals_on_trial.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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Shell, Chevron in the Niger Delta, Texaco/ Chevron in the Ecuadoran Amazon &#8211; both examples of militarisation of commerce and corporate theft and violence against communities.  In 1993 the communities of Lago Agrio in Ecuador sued Chevron / Texaco for $27 billion [Aguinda v. Texaco]  for environmental damage.  Judgment on the case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has mining Haiti&#8217;s riches contributed to the earthquake?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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An important and thoughtful post from Haitian blogger,  Ezili Danto who raises a number of serious questions around why the earthquake happened at this time &#8211; the first in 239 years.
In the Mining Haiti&#8217;s Riches interview, I recount how there were areas in Haiti hidden behind UN guns, fenced off where Haitians knew nothing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dumping death</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/dumping_death_.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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Bhopal &#8211; 23 years on the site has still not been cleaned up. 













Oil spills in Oloibiri 






Dumping toxic  waste in Nairobi









Lesotho &#8211; GAP/ Levi factory dumps chemical waste












Trafugura dumped on Abidjan 








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		<title>Nigerian farmers take Shell to court</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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Today is the start of a landmark court brought by four farmers from the Niger Delta against Shell Oil.




The Nigerian farmers and fishers, who lost their livelihoods after oil from leaking Shell pipelines streamed over their fields and fishing ponds, are claiming compensation from the Anglo-Dutch oil giant. They also want Shell to clean up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grand theft Congo &#8211; who are the plunderers?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/10/grand_theft_congo_-_who_are_the_plunderers_.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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Most of us probably havent even heard of cassiterite &#8211; the mineral used in electronics especially laptops.  There was a time when laptops used to be hugely expensive. Now you can pick up one for a couple of hundred pounds.  I dont know whether there is a relationship between the cheap price of laptops and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate committee of shitheads</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/06/corporate_committee_of_shitheads.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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Current TV &#8211; Sahara Reporters
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		<title>Interactive map of Niger Delta</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/06/interactive_map_of_niger_delta.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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An interactive map of the Niger Delta by the Financial Times showing  oil fields and conflict zones -See MAP
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Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s president, offered an amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta on Friday as part of his strategy for ending attacks on Africa’s biggest oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ogoni 9 &#8211; Shell settlement: Victory, but justice deferred?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/06/ogoni_9_-_shell_settlement_victory_but_justice_deferred.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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The following article is published in Pambazuka News and is written by  Sokari Ekine and Firoze Manji
&#8220;And as I was going, I was just thinking how the war have spoiled my town Dukana, uselessed many people, killed many others, killed my mama and my wife, Agnes, my beautiful young wife with J.J.C and now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiwa v Shell: $15.5 million settlement</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/06/wiwa_v_shell_155_million_settlement.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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The case has been settled out of court with $10 million going to the 10 plaintiffs and $5 million being gifted to the Ogoni people.  Details of the settlement  are here and here. Below is part of the statement from the lawyers in the case.  I will be writing more on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiwa v Shell postponed indefinitely means what?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/06/wiwa_v_shell_postponed_indefinitely_means_what.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/06/wiwa_v_shell_postponed_indefinitely_means_what.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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The trial has been delayed over and over and finally well we thought finally it was due to start on the 26th May and then 27th May.  Another cancellation and now we learn that both the trial and the pre-trial conference have been delayed indefinitely.  What is going on?  Steve Kretzmann Han [...]]]></description>
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