[van-announce] UBC forum Thursday on 10th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa's murder

[Derrick O'Keefe]

*Please forward widely*

UBC Social Justice Centre, along with Colour Connected
Against Racism and the Coalition Against War on the
people of Iraq and Internationally (CAWOPI) Present:

A panel forum in tribute to Ken Saro-Wiwa:

The fight against criminal corporations today

Thursday, November 10, 12:30 to 2:30p.m.
University of British Columbia
Student Union Building, Norm Theatre

Speakers to include,

*Anthony Fenton, Haiti solidarity activist and author
of the new book Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority,
examining the case of Canadian companies Gildan and SNC-Lavalin in
occupied Haiti and Iraq.
*UBC student activist, on the campaign for fair trade
and against Starbucks "corporate coffee."
*speaker on "Killer Coke," looking at the rampant
abuses of labour activists and the environment by Coca Cola in both
India and Colombia.
*Andrew Malieni from the AMS Coalition Against War on
the People of Iraq and Internationally (CAWOPI)on
Canada's increased War Drive and UBC's connections to
War and Occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan

On November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa was murdered by
the Nigerian government, after a fraudulent trial. Saro-Wiwa's real
crime had been in standing up for the rights of the Ogoni people - to
land and self-determination - and against the greedy,
rapacious actions of the Shell Oil Company. Ten years later, corporate power
and the related process of empire building continue to enforce the
structural inequalities of the world, with deadly consequences,
from Haiti, to Iraq, to Colombia and beyond.

The U.B.C. Social Justice presents a forum that will
honour Ken Saro-Wiwa's legacy of struggle by featuring speakers who
will explain contemporary cases of abusive corporate power.