Press Release

People Against The War Target International petroleum Exchange (IPE)

Twenty people today disrupted the trading floor of the International Petroleum Exchange in the city of London while others outside held a banner reading "Oil Fuels War". These people are only a tiny fraction of those in this country (and around the world) who are opposed to a war againmst Iraq and who are waking up to the new style of government - "Corporateocracy".

"We're visiting IPE today to highlight the intimite relationship between the rush to war on iraq and the west's insatiable thirst for oil." Said Sandra Ried of the Infernal Petroleum Experience. "The IPE is where that connection is most accute and where a very small number of companies and individuals reap enormous rewards at the expense of the great majority of the worlds' population, who struggle to keep their head above a tide of war, climate chaos, human rights abuses and forced displacement; both at home and abroad.

She went on to say that "oil courses through the veins of the capitalist system turbocharging its destructive impacts. We are taking direct action to stick a well placed spanner in the war machine. Writing to our MPs and marching through central London hasn't stopped this war and it will not move us towards the safe and just world we want to live in."

"Over the past six months, we have seen an elected govenrnment consistently kick sand in the face of public opinion at the behest of the bully boy of corporate and US interest. No one wants this war. Democracy has been clearly revealed for the charade it is. We hope the people will begin to take direct action as the prefered way of doing things."

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For further reports and pictures of this action: www.uk.indymedia.org

Notes:
1. The IPE is Europes' largest marketplace for buying and selling of oil and gas 'futures', second only to new york's Nymex. In January 2003, with world oil prices climbing through the cieling at the prospect of war, with Iraq and the resulting chaos and destruction that would ensue, it traded over 3 million contracts worth US 95 billion dollars. Its new owners ICE count BP, Shell, and ELF among its largest shareholders.

2. The anti-war movement is millions strong worldwide. In the UK, March 17th-23rd is a week of 'Obstruct and Resist' actions against war [ http://www.j-n-v.org/obstruct&resistpress.htm]. This is our attempt as a small part of that movement to help put the world back on course for a safe, sustainible and socially just future.