Shell, Ogoni agus an Piobline Ghais na Choiribe

galway | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday June 09, 2009 12:54 by Drizzly Spells - Galway ShelltoSea galwayshelltosea at riseup dot net

WEDNESDAY 10/06/09 - 7pm - Aras na nGael - Free Screening

Documentaries on Shell in Ogoni and in Mayo.

Aras Screening

This week Galway Shell to Sea will be screening 4 short documentaries in Aras na nGael. The films are:

- Under Pressure: (15mins) 2007 documentary focussing on Rossport 5 member and Goldman Environmental Award recipient, Willie Corduff. The film won the best Short Documentary Award at the 2007 Kerry Film Festival.

- Those Who Dance:(50mins) 2007 documentary showing how life for the Ogoni people has been effected on the Niger Delta by the presence of Shell. This is compared with people living off the land in Rossport, and how they are struggling to resist the threat of destruction of this way of life.

- Policing the Polluiton:(10mins) 2007 documentary examining how the local water supply of 10,000 people was being polluted with alluminium coming from the Shell Gas Refinery site.

- The Case Against Shell:(8mins) 2009 promo for the WiwaVsShell trial with interviews from journalists and human rights lawyers on the need for accountability from Royal Dutch Shell with regard to their blatant collusion with the Nigerian Military in the oppression of the MOSOP movement in Ogoniland, and the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa.