Activists from Rising Tide today hung a row of 9 nooses in front of the Shell Centre in London, to represent the companies complicity in the killings of Ken Sarowiwa and eight other Ogoni activists ten years ago.
The demonstration was speaking out against the ongoing destruction, exploitation and repression by Shell and other oil companies in the Niger delta and all over the world. The execution nooses were hung from the lampstands that illuminate the Shell Centre at night. Banners were unfurled, leaflets handed out and one activist spoke through a megaphone to explain to the public - and to Shell employees - the reason for the macabre installation above their heads. Police arrived and asked activists if they had applied for written permission to demonstrate, as the area was within the new Parliamentary half-mile no-protest exclusion zone.
Your correspondant left as the anti-demonstration was making its way round the building to the other entrance, apparently over half a mile outside the exclusion zone...
Your correspondant left as the anti-demonstration was making its way round the building to the other entrance, apparently over half a mile outside the exclusion zone...
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Weak ?
09.11.2005 16:00
Why give in ? You should have stuck to your guns and showed the foolishness of the new rule.
Don't give in so quickly next time
Harder core
not weak
10.11.2005 00:56
why your negative comments? this protest was about the shell issue, not the soca issue. there is a soca protest at parliament square every sunday - see www.freedomtoprotest.org.uk - have you been to those? - have you been arrested there? - at least seventeen people have! - maybe your not quite so hardcore yourself? - at least 27 people in all have been arrested under the soca laws.
there will be a further report, pics, and later a video, covering the whole day of action appearing on indymedia soon.
rikki
not so far away
15.11.2005 16:57
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