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IRAQ: THE OIL CONTROL AGENDA AND GRASSROOTS RESISTANCE
Date:
Sunday 11th March 2007
Time: 2.15pm to 4.45pm
Venue: 4nd Floor, Muslim World League, 46 Goodge Street, London, W1T 4LU (entrance on the corner of Charlotte Street); Nearest Tube: Goodge Street (Northern Line)
Guest Speaker:
Ewa Jasiewicz (Writer and Human Rights Activist, PLATFORM )
How are oil companies and the governments of the occupying powers in Iraq influencing the process of controlling Iraqi oil to advance their own political and economic interests? How are people in Iraq responding to the plans to de-facto privatise their oil without any consultation? What are the alternatives to the agreements advocated to maximise the benefits of Iraq's oil revenues to benefit the Iraqi people? How can those opposed to the agenda of economic occupation in Iraq, through the control of Iraq's oil reserves, resist this process? There will be an opportunity to ask questions, share ideas and within the forum to also hear about climate and other environmental actions LINE is active with, and how you can participate.
About the speaker:
Ewa Jasiewicz is a writer, human rights activist and union organiser. She has worked and lived in occupied Palestine and Iraq supporting families, medical services and civil society organisations. She is a founder of Naftana the UK support committee for the anti-occupation, anti-dictatorship independent Iraqi oil workers union-the General Union of Oil Employees. She is currently working as a researcher and campaigner at PLATFORM, a social and environmental justice organisation working on a campaign against oil privatisation in Iraq.
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