[Mitai-announce] The Price of Oil featuring Ken Wiwa

[Shankar Mukherji]

                 Amnesty International's MIT student chapter
                  The Boston Student Cluster invites you to

       Join us for an evening with human rights activist and journalist
   Ken Wiwa for The Price of Oil, a tribute to the life and legacy of his
                            father Ken Saro-Wiwa.

       Ken Wiwa and other experts will discuss the Niger Delta peoples'
 struggle for justice, and the real "price of oil" on Africa, the
 environment, and all of us.

                          Friday September 23, 2005
                                   32-123
 (Kirsch Auditorium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Stata Center)
 

                            Program 5:30pm-7:30pm

  (performances and selections from Saro-Wiwa's novels & plays, testimonies
   inspired by Ken and photographs by renowned photojournalist Ed Kashi).

 November 10, 2005 marks the Tenth Anniversary of the executions of Ken
 Saro-Wiwa and eight colleagues their only crime was organizing against
 the pollution and repression of Shell and the Nigerian military.  In the
 ensuing decade, much has changed, but more has not.  Nigeria has emerged
 from decades of military rule, and is now a nascent democracy.  Yet Ken
 Saro-Wiwa and others remain convicted of a crime they did not commit, oil
 companies continue to pollute Ogoni and the Niger Delta with impunity while
 poverty, and growing instability plague Delta communities.  Globally, oil
 dominates world affairs, in conflict, climate, finance and development.
 Ten years on, Ogoni, the Delta, Nigeria, and the world still need Ken
 Saro-Wiwa.

 Tour sponsored by: Oil Change International, Amnesty USA, Center for
 Constitutional Rights, Earthrights International, Rainforest Action
 Network, Sierra Club, Tufts University African Studies Dept., and the Ken
 Saro-Wiwa Foundation.