The battle is being lost
Jim Jones | 23.04.2007 07:27
Iggy 4
The West’s asleep.
$60 billion for Shell.
Radon gas, lead, nickel, mercury poisoning for us.
The people go to meetings every night and protest every morning,
All to no avail.
The battle is lost, for the moment, to the lackeys and flunkeys.
Shell bribed the government and infiltrated and neutered the opposition.
‘Shell to Sea’ first wanted the gas to be extracted at sea.
Now it can’t even stop Shell poisoning Broadhaven Bay.
If ‘Shell to Sea’ were serious they would stop the useless nonsense of site invasions and organize like AIPAC in the States.
What is needed are Political Action Committees in every marginal seat in the next election and every election after that.
Any politician, local or national, who does not work in the people’s interest to reverse the corrupt Shell deal, should be targeted.
This is not going to go away.
Shell will be spewing pollution in the West for the next 20 years.
‘Shell to Sea’ has failed.
A new, more organized and less amateur organization is needed.
$60 billion for Shell.
Radon gas, lead, nickel, mercury poisoning for us.
The people go to meetings every night and protest every morning,
All to no avail.
The battle is lost, for the moment, to the lackeys and flunkeys.
Shell bribed the government and infiltrated and neutered the opposition.
‘Shell to Sea’ first wanted the gas to be extracted at sea.
Now it can’t even stop Shell poisoning Broadhaven Bay.
If ‘Shell to Sea’ were serious they would stop the useless nonsense of site invasions and organize like AIPAC in the States.
What is needed are Political Action Committees in every marginal seat in the next election and every election after that.
Any politician, local or national, who does not work in the people’s interest to reverse the corrupt Shell deal, should be targeted.
This is not going to go away.
Shell will be spewing pollution in the West for the next 20 years.
‘Shell to Sea’ has failed.
A new, more organized and less amateur organization is needed.
Jim Jones
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Do it your self
23.04.2007 08:32
DIY
all is NOT lost
23.04.2007 13:11
Willie Corduff is one of the winners chosen to recieve the Goldman Prize,an esteemed enviromental award, for his opposition of Shell and the Proposed pipeline.
Much headway has been made during this campaign and though there is still a long way to go those against the pipeline have the upper hand and have every chance of success.
I agree that if you have further tactics and ideas to offer you get involved and aid the process rather than pontificating about it!
action not words!
seial protestor
Shell AGM coming up in May
23.04.2007 14:33
Shell's AGM is coming up on Tuesday 15th May, 10am in London (live link to AGM in The Hague)
Venue: Novotel London-West Hotel and Convention Centre, 1 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London W6 8DR United Kingdom.
I want to see everyone who has an axe to grind with Shell make it down there, either as a token shareholder making their lives a misery inside the venue, or making your presence felt outside. Whatever your grievance with Shell and Big Oil - whether it is about their environmental record, lobbying for Iraqi oil contracts or whatever - this is a great opportunity to unite in solidarity and hold them and their shareholders to account! Let's please make it a huge one. The presence outside BP's recent AGM was pitiful.
Shell's own notice of AGM:
dan
Dear Dan
23.04.2007 17:40
And out of respect for your posts I will vandalise my local petrol station !
Danny
identity crisis
24.04.2007 15:51
- LOL Dan(ny)! OK - let me know when and where and I might just join you!
If you want to keep posting as Dan (hardly a rare name!), that's fine by me. I'll figure out another alias! Might make my schizophrenia worse though... Hmmm, let me think... maybe 'dan 2' or 'dan (not that one, the other one)'? Quite catchy, no??
dan 2