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Unarmed WOMEN Shut Down Oil Giant in Nigeria
AP. 13 July 2002. As standoff continues, protester describes how
unarmed women shut down oil giant in Nigeria.
ESCRAVOS -- Anunu Uwawah lets a small smile escape as she tells how
she and a band of 150 village women shut down most of a multinational
oil company's Nigeria operations for nearly a week.
Uwawah said the women from the Ugborodo and Arutan communities
commandeered a ChevronTexaco staff ferry to sneak into the company's
Escravos pipeline terminal on Monday.
The unarmed women have occupied the terminal ever since, stopping
exports and trapping about 700 workers, including Americans, Britons,
Canadians and Nigerians, inside.
More talks were slated Saturday to free the terminal and its workers.
The women say they want the company to hire their sons and provide
electricity for their villages, some of which are less than 100 yards
from the terminal.
The facility is surrounded by miles of Niger Delta rivers and swamps,
and the only entry points are docks, helicopter pads and an airstrip.
All have been blocked by the protesters.
The peaceful protest by unarmed women is a departure for Nigeria,
where such disputes often are settled with machetes and guns. In the
oil-rich Niger Delta, armed young men routinely resort to kidnapping
and sabotage to pressure oil multinationals into giving them jobs,
protection money or compensation for alleged environmental damage.
During a break from a meeting Friday with ChevronTexaco officials,
Uwawah described how the women occupied the terminal carrying only
bundles of food to eat.
"I was the leader of the air strip team. If any plane came, I would
drive my people there and we circled it," she said. "We wouldn't let
anyone come in or anyone go out."
After her success on the airfield, she chased administrative staff out
of the offices, Uwawah said. Other teams of women in bright printed
skirts shut down the docks and the helicopter pads, she said.
On Wednesday, about 100 police and soldiers armed with assault rifles
were sent to the terminal to protect the facility, but they were under
strict orders not to harm the women, Delta state police commissioner
John Ahmadu said.
Uwawah said the women weren't intimidated by security forces.
"If we die, Chevron will die with us," she said.
The women began talks with senior ChevronTexaco management in Nigeria
on Friday after days of false starts, but Uwawah and other leaders in
the group say they wouldn't leave the terminal until the company
commits to hiring people from the neighboring villages and helps them
build better infrastructure.
The people in the Niger Delta are among the poorest in Nigeria,
despite living on the oil-rich land that makes the country the world's
sixth-largest oil exporter and the fifth-biggest supplier of U.S. oil
imports.
The lack of government development efforts in the Delta has prompted
activists to focus their demands for roads, water and schools on the
multinationals pumping the oil.
[ProletarianNews] Nigeria: 'If we die, Chevron will die with us'
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:56:45 -0400
From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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