[CounterCorp] Co-presentation film event: "Delta Force", April 15, San Francisco

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Dear CounterCorp supporter,

	We are pleased to be co-presenting a film next week with our  
colleagues at Justice In Nigeria Now (JINN), who co-presented a series  
of short films about Big Oil's crimes and abuse Nigeria with us at  
last year's Anti-Corporate Film Festival.

	Next Wednesday, April 15, JINN and CounterCorp will be presenting  
"Delta Force", a documentary about Nigerian environmental activist Ken  
Saro-Wiwa and the struggle of his Ogoni people in the Niger River  
Delta region, directed by Glen Ellis.

	The screening will be followed by a panel discussion entitled "Ken  
Saro-Wiwa and the Case Against Shell", which examines the upcoming  
trial of Shell Oil in federal court in New York on May 26.

	On November 10, 1995, acclaimed non-violent resistance leader Ken  
Saro-Wiwa and eight of his Ogoni colleagues were executed by Nigeria’s  
brutal military dictatorship.

	This one-hour documentary tells the story of the rise of Saro-Wiwa  
and the Movement for Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and its  
violent suppression by the Nigerian military at the request, and with  
the complicity, of Shell Oil.

	On May 26, Ken Saro-Wiwa's relatives and other MOSOP members will  
bring Shell to trial in New York for the company’s complicity in the  
death of Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni leaders, and the destruction of  
Ogoni villages at the hand of the Nigerian military.

	The panelists will include:

Cindy Cohn -- Counsel to the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed against  
Chevron by Nigerian villagers for human rights abuses committed in  
1998 and heard in U.S. court last fall in San Francisco, and a member  
of the "dream team" panel on Big Oil at last year's CounterCorp  
Festival. The Chevron case is now entering the appeals process. Cohn  
is legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Beresuanu Kingston -- An Ogoni activist now living in the San  
Francisco Bay Area who can speak first-hand about Shell’s abuses in  
Ogoniland.

	The screening and panel discussion is taking place at the Artist  
Television Access (www.atasite.org), 992 Valencia Street (at 21st) in  
San Francisco's Mission District. The evening's schedule is as follows:

  6:00 pm -- Wine and Beer Reception
  7:00 pm -- Film Screening
  8:00 pm -- Panel Discussion

	A donation of $10-$30 is requested, but no one will be turned away  
for lack of funds. This is a benefit for JINN (www.justiceinnigerianow.org 
), a San Francisco-based non-profit organization working in solidarity  
with communities in Nigeria and allies in the U.S. to hold  
multinational corporations accountable for their operations in Nigeria.

	Please join CounterCorp in supporting this worthwhile group and  
cause, and learn more about Big Oil's decades-long rampage through the  
areas of the world where they extract oil, reaping billions in the  
process while causing billions of dollars worth of damage, and  
propping up -- and collaborating with -- brutal dictatorships for  
mutual advantage.

	If you ride in cars, buses, or airplanes, you consume the product of  
these activities -- this is your chance to find out what oil REALLY  
costs. We hope to see you there!

John Wilner
Director


      CounterCorp: Putting An End to Business as Usual
      4th Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival, May 28-30
			www.countercorp.org

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