Message from the Earth: Free Opitz and Lehmann Now!

by Bill Conroy, NarcoNews (reposted)

Sun, Oct 21, 2007 11:05AM

Saturday, October 20, 2007 The oil rich Niger River Delta of southern Nigeria is a murky swampland where men are at war with the Earth — and each other. An armed indigenous rebel group known as the MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) over the last few years has successfully disrupted the operations of major oil producers in the area through a string of attacks on oil facilities.

The rebels have taken up arms in order to regain control of their lands from corrupt Nigerian leaders and multi-national oil companies who they claim are raping the environment and making billions of dollars off the oil reserves — and returning little more than dirt to the impoverished communities in the Niger Delta.

The Nigerian government, by contrast, sees the rebels as looters, kidnappers and terrorists who are a threat to the national security of the country.

This same dynamic is playing out in flashpoints across the globe — including in nations south of our border, where indigenous communities in Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia and beyond are pushing back against what they see as the destruction of their lands by the pecuniary forces of global capitalism. In Latin America, the struggles are notable for the lack of violence on the part of the indigenous communities — even when extreme violence is being used against them by the state.

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