100 days countdown - Hands Off Iraqi Oil national action in London - join us!
100 days til the end of the Bush and Cheney administration....
Join us for a Hands Off Iraqi Oil demonstration through central London on Saturday 11 October. Featuring a team of oil law resisters escorting a giant Dick Cheney from Shell's UK headquarters via the BP HQ to the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square.
Assemble 12 noon, Shell House, Waterloo, London SE1 7NA (Opposite Waterloo train station. Nearest tube: Waterloo). Click here for more
Protest Big Oil´s carve-up Meeting in London.......
Join us for a Hands Off Iraqi Oil demonstration through central London on Saturday 11 October. Featuring a team of oil law resisters escorting a giant Dick Cheney from Shell's UK headquarters via the BP HQ to the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square.
Assemble 12 noon, Shell House, Waterloo, London SE1 7NA (Opposite Waterloo train station. Nearest tube: Waterloo). Click here for more
Protest Big Oil´s carve-up Meeting in London.......
Monday 13th will see Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al Shahristani meet with Big Oil in London to discuss longterm deals for controling Iraqi oil.
41 international oil companies including Shell, BP and Exxon, which have pre-qualified for bids on existing producing oil and gas fields will attend.
The meeting is thought to be an interim replacement for a major oil and gas event which had been schedueled to take place in Baghdad in October. This event has now been postponed until December.
The London meeting will mark a crucial step forward in making privatisation of Iraqi oil a long-term reality.
According to Oil Ministry spokesperson Assim Jihad 'The oil ministry will unveil the legal framework and conditions for signing service contracts by qualified oil companies,'
Yet the proposed risk-service deals reported to be on the table could last 20 years and are thought to be close to the Production Sharing Agreements model.
PSAs are reserves-granting contracts which hand control over oil reserves to companies. Iraqi oil experts, trade unions, MPs and civil society have condemned the contracts as a form of economic occupation and a violation of any future potential Iraqi sovereignty.
The situation in Iraq is far from fair or normal for any long-term deals to be negotiated let alone signed.
Over one million people have died since the beginning of the war and occupation.
41 international oil companies including Shell, BP and Exxon, which have pre-qualified for bids on existing producing oil and gas fields will attend.
The meeting is thought to be an interim replacement for a major oil and gas event which had been schedueled to take place in Baghdad in October. This event has now been postponed until December.
The London meeting will mark a crucial step forward in making privatisation of Iraqi oil a long-term reality.
According to Oil Ministry spokesperson Assim Jihad 'The oil ministry will unveil the legal framework and conditions for signing service contracts by qualified oil companies,'
Yet the proposed risk-service deals reported to be on the table could last 20 years and are thought to be close to the Production Sharing Agreements model.
PSAs are reserves-granting contracts which hand control over oil reserves to companies. Iraqi oil experts, trade unions, MPs and civil society have condemned the contracts as a form of economic occupation and a violation of any future potential Iraqi sovereignty.
The situation in Iraq is far from fair or normal for any long-term deals to be negotiated let alone signed.
Over one million people have died since the beginning of the war and occupation.
Millions are dispalced by occupation-stoked sectarian violence. Occupation forces and mercenaries continue to kill and main with impunity, thousands suffer in prison camps, indiscriminate aerial attacks and curfews terrorize thousands.
Profound injustice, disempowerment, poverty and distress dominate the daily lives of most people living in occupied Iraq.
The oil law, which was first drafted in consultation with the UK and US governments, oil majors such as Shell and BP and the IMF is still off the statute books. Its passage in its' current form threatens to escalate and perpetuate the occupation and sectarian violence.
Its' enactment could re-draw the map of Iraq through allowing regions to control their own oil industries, sign contracts with majors without democratic oversight and economically empower their already occupation supported political and military power structures.
Passage of the oil law and the signing of longterm privatisation deals in Iraq will escalate conflict, entrench the occupation and increase the number of paramilitary and mercenary forces in the beleagured country.
The oil law, which was first drafted in consultation with the UK and US governments, oil majors such as Shell and BP and the IMF is still off the statute books. Its passage in its' current form threatens to escalate and perpetuate the occupation and sectarian violence.
Its' enactment could re-draw the map of Iraq through allowing regions to control their own oil industries, sign contracts with majors without democratic oversight and economically empower their already occupation supported political and military power structures.
Passage of the oil law and the signing of longterm privatisation deals in Iraq will escalate conflict, entrench the occupation and increase the number of paramilitary and mercenary forces in the beleagured country.
The stakes could not be higher for the future of Iraq´s economy, independence, stability and unity. This is why the law is still off the statute books and Iraqis up and down the country continue to oppose it.
Thwarting the economic and geo-political aims of the neo-conservative right which are profiting from the war on Iraq, such as the US oil lobby and its´ man in the whitehouse Dick Cheney should be at the forefront of the anti-war movement.
The Bush-Cheney administration and its' allies in the oil industry and are not giving up, neither are the people of Iraq and neither should we.
It is vital for the anti war movement, social justice movements and the trade union movement to come out into the streets on saturday. We need to show our solidarity with the Iraqi people in resisting the rip off of their resources and the ongoing occupation - military and economic - of Iraq.
Join us on the streets of London on October 11th in telling Shell, BP and the others, Hands Off Iraqi Oil - End the Occupation Now!
Thwarting the economic and geo-political aims of the neo-conservative right which are profiting from the war on Iraq, such as the US oil lobby and its´ man in the whitehouse Dick Cheney should be at the forefront of the anti-war movement.
The Bush-Cheney administration and its' allies in the oil industry and are not giving up, neither are the people of Iraq and neither should we.
It is vital for the anti war movement, social justice movements and the trade union movement to come out into the streets on saturday. We need to show our solidarity with the Iraqi people in resisting the rip off of their resources and the ongoing occupation - military and economic - of Iraq.
Join us on the streets of London on October 11th in telling Shell, BP and the others, Hands Off Iraqi Oil - End the Occupation Now!
