A General Strike is now being called for in Nigeria set to start on November 15,
2004. At least we would want the Pacifica stations to cover it would we not? Could we
d anything to organize some support for the Nigerian General Strike?
The LA truckers CAN shut down the LA Harbor, And the LA truckers have contacts in
San Francisco, Houston, Washington D.C, Miami and New Jersey. An nationwide harbor
trucker STRIKE is not at all impossible. What would Bush do? (answer - sh*t in his
pants)
John Brown
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Thousands march in Nigeria to support planned general strike over fuel prices
DULUE MBACHU, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
(11-03) 18:18 PST LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) --
Thousands of people marched through Nigeria's biggest city on Wednesday to support an
upcoming general strike against fuel price hikes -- a shutdown that union leaders warn
will freeze the flow of oil from the world's seventh-biggest oil exporter.
The march, which covered over six miles, ended at a busy bus stop in the Yaba district
of Lagos where union leaders addressed protesters.
"The message is clear. On Nov. 16 we're going to begin the fight against poverty,
unemployment and dictatorship," Adams Oshiomhole, president of the Nigeria Labor
Congress, told wildly cheering crowds.
Oshiomhole has led the call to strike to protest fuel prices that have risen 23
percent in recent months. The labor congress is the country's main trade union body,
grouping 29 blue-collar unions.
The union has vowed to launch the indefinite strike to shut down Nigeria's oil exports
of 2.5 million barrels daily. Nigeria is the fifth-biggest source of U.S. oil imports.
In a statement on Wednesday, Information Minister Chukwuemeka Chikelu accused union
leaders of opting for strikes instead of negotiating with the government.
"The strike is unnecessary, ill-timed and ill-motivated. Nigerians should reject it,"
said Chikelu.
The government has defended several fuel price increases over the past five years
caused by the abolition of fuel subsidies, saying the resulting savings would be used
to fund social services.
Union leaders argue the inflationary spirals stirred by the price hikes were
increasing the poverty of Nigerians, 70 percent of whom live on less than one dollar a
day.
When unions announced new strike plans last Sunday, union leaders said the country's
biggest oil producer, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, would be specially targeted.
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