GiGi REMEMBERS All 9/11 Victims from the US to India!!! Guatemala, Chile, Iraq, ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=558gWd3fhO4

Something I should have published a long time ago...

Sometimes it really sucks knowing right from wrong. Just last week a friend offered to buy me a net book and what do I do? I think about it! Because I know coltan is an ingredient in all of our modern day technologies: cell phones, computers, etc. I also know that this mineral is found in the Congo and this is why they are having a war over there; this is why women are being raped and people are being mutilated and tortured...so that I can have my iPhone or Dell Netbook. Unfortunately, I also know right from wrong and for some reason one just doesn't justify the other. So what did I do? I got angry...WITH MYSELF! Who thinks about stuff like this, you know? So I go online in search of a coltan-free Netbook. What did I find? Not a damn thing! Why have, all this time, I thought these things were made from plastic. But no, no, no it's made from some rare $%@* in the ground over in Africa where they're killing and torturing people to access it. Where they're raping women with knives and forcing mothers to eat their children. Where they make husbands watch as a group of soldiers rape his wife...where all this evil $#*& is happening and all I want is a damn Netbook. Why the hell are companies using this material anyway?! F*($! All I WANT IS A NETBOOK WITHOUT HAVING THIS $%*# ON MY CONSCIOUS!... but don't let me ruin it for you...the big companies sure have not. Ignorance sure is bliss.

Blood Coltan Movie http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/blood-coltan/

Threat Advisory Level

Case profile: Chevron lawsuit (re Nigeria)

"In 1999, a group of Nigerians of the Niger Delta region, where Chevron engages in oil production activities, brought a lawsuit against Chevron in US federal court. The plaintiffs allege that they suffered human rights violations, including torture and summary execution, at the hands of the Nigerian military and police acting in concert with Chevron to suppress the plaintiffs’ protests against Chevron’s environmental practices in the Niger Delta. The claims against Chevron are based on two incidents. First, two protestors were shot by Nigerian military and police allegedly recruited by Chevron at its Parabe offshore platform. Second, two Nigerian villages, Opia and Ikenyan, were attacked by Nigerian soldiers using helicopters and boats allegedly leased and/or owned by Chevron, and these attacks allegedly caused the death and injury of a number of villagers. In March of 2007, a federal judge dismissed the federal racketeering claims against Chevron, but the judge declined to dismiss the remaining nine claims made by the plaintiffs. In August of 2007, a federal judge issued a series of decisions regarding Chevron's motions for summary judgment. The judge's orders narrowed the lawsuit,but the plaintiffs' central claims regarding Chevron's complicity in human rights violations were allowed to stand. On 1 December 2008, the federal jury cleared Chevron of the charges in this case. In March 2009, the federal judge denied the plaintiffs' request for a new trial, finding that the evidence presented at trial supported the jury's verdict. The plaintiffs filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in April 2009."

Watch 1/4 on homepage.

2/4

Pages: 1 · 2