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Food Not Bombs in Nigeria - Providing a nonviolent solution to the crisis in Nigeria’s oil rich Niger Delta
A CALL TO SUPPORT FOOD NOT BOMBS IN NIGERIA
TUCSON, ARIZONA -Food Not Bombs is providing an alternative to bombs in its effort to improve the conditions for the people of the Niger Delta. Food Not Bombs is starting local chapters that are providing food and organizing non-violent protests. They are urging Food Not Bombs groups to organize actions in support of the groups in the Niger Delta.
This March Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry and local Nigerian volunteer Yinka Dada visited the people suffering in the shadow of Nigeria’s oil refineries. While conditions in the region are terrible, bombs are not a good way to improve conditions. The crisis in Nigeria has contributed to oil prices hitting a record $72 a barrel. It’s understandable that people are frustrated that the profits of their resources are enriching foreign companies while their environment is polluted and they live in poverty. Food Not Bombs is offering a nonviolent solution. Nigeria Food Not Bombs volunteers are helping community leaders start local groups and we are buying seeds for local farmers. Food Not Bombs welcomed Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s announcement of new jobs in the Delta Region. Food Not Bombs volunteers in Nigeria urge the President to do all he can for the people suffering in the Niger Delta. They are also calling on all Food Not Bombs chapters to organize actions in support of ending poverty, pollution and human rights violations in this oil rich area.
Israel Idowu and Keith McHenry spoke to the Senate of the National Association of Nigerian Students who voted to support Food Not Bombs effort to find a non-violent solution to the crisis of inequality in the Niger Delta. The February 20, 2006 Communiqué of the 63rd Senate Meeting states "Senate condemned the recent kidnap of expatriates by militant youths of the Niger Delta Area...Senate resolved to work with 'Food Not Bombs' International in facilitating peace in Nigeria." Food Not Bombs is working with The Special Assistant To The President On Food Security Mrs. Oluwatoyin Adetunji to provide food to communities in need. When Food Not Bombs volunteers met with people living near of oil refineries near Port Harcourt they donated food and drinking water. Igwe Ejireyi is the Chairman of Alesa Eleme a very poor and polluted community. He invited the members of his shantytown to learn how to start a local Food Not Bombs group. Igwe Ejireyi showed his visitors where people slept in groups on the floors under tin roofs. The water bubbled in open sewers and there was no safe drinking water. Tanker trucks lined the oily dirty road. There is no school and according to a crowed of local residents no one had every come to help them until Food Not Bombs arrived. In the weeks before Food Not Bombs started groups in the Niger Delta local people had been killed by gunfire from troops in helicopters and young activists took oil workers hostage in an effort to influence the government to share more of the oil profits on ending the poverty and pollution. The rivers are poisoned and the soil soaked in oil and the people in the Niger Delta can no longer fish and farm. Food Not Bombs groups have also been started in Port Harcourt, Osun state, Ibadan Cross River, Calabar, Abuja, and Lagos. Volunteers with Food Not Bombs and Indymedia will host the 2006 African Conference on Formal Consensus and Nonviolent Social Change focusing on building a strong movement for Africans peacefully changing their community for the better and an end hunger and poverty.
Food Not Bombs in Nigeria
Photos of the Niger Delta
Nigeria head offers Delta boost BBC News - April 17, 2006
NIGERIA: Delta militants' car bomb kills two at military base in oil city April 20, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - APRIL 20, 2006
CONTACT: Keith McHenry 520-770-0575 - Yinka Dada +2348034870077
Idowu O.Israel +2348028330270
A CALL TO SUPPORT FOOD NOT BOMBS IN NIGERIA
TUCSON, ARIZONA -Food Not Bombs is providing an alternative to bombs in its effort to improve the conditions for the people of the Niger Delta. Food Not Bombs is starting local chapters that are providing food and organizing non-violent protests. They are urging Food Not Bombs groups to organize actions in support of the groups in the Niger Delta.
This March Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry and local Nigerian volunteer Yinka Dada visited the people suffering in the shadow of Nigeria’s oil refineries. While conditions in the region are terrible, bombs are not a good way to improve conditions. The crisis in Nigeria has contributed to oil prices hitting a record $72 a barrel. It’s understandable that people are frustrated that the profits of their resources are enriching foreign companies while their environment is polluted and they live in poverty. Food Not Bombs is offering a nonviolent solution. Nigeria Food Not Bombs volunteers are helping community leaders start local groups and we are buying seeds for local farmers. Food Not Bombs welcomed Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s announcement of new jobs in the Delta Region. Food Not Bombs volunteers in Nigeria urge the President to do all he can for the people suffering in the Niger Delta. They are also calling on all Food Not Bombs chapters to organize actions in support of ending poverty, pollution and human rights violations in this oil rich area.
Israel Idowu and Keith McHenry spoke to the Senate of the National Association of Nigerian Students who voted to support Food Not Bombs effort to find a non-violent solution to the crisis of inequality in the Niger Delta. The February 20, 2006 Communiqué of the 63rd Senate Meeting states "Senate condemned the recent kidnap of expatriates by militant youths of the Niger Delta Area...Senate resolved to work with 'Food Not Bombs' International in facilitating peace in Nigeria." Food Not Bombs is working with The Special Assistant To The President On Food Security Mrs. Oluwatoyin Adetunji to provide food to communities in need. When Food Not Bombs volunteers met with people living near of oil refineries near Port Harcourt they donated food and drinking water. Igwe Ejireyi is the Chairman of Alesa Eleme a very poor and polluted community. He invited the members of his shantytown to learn how to start a local Food Not Bombs group. Igwe Ejireyi showed his visitors where people slept in groups on the floors under tin roofs. The water bubbled in open sewers and there was no safe drinking water. Tanker trucks lined the oily dirty road. There is no school and according to a crowed of local residents no one had every come to help them until Food Not Bombs arrived. In the weeks before Food Not Bombs started groups in the Niger Delta local people had been killed by gunfire from troops in helicopters and young activists took oil workers hostage in an effort to influence the government to share more of the oil profits on ending the poverty and pollution. The rivers are poisoned and the soil soaked in oil and the people in the Niger Delta can no longer fish and farm. Food Not Bombs groups have also been started in Port Harcourt, Osun state, Ibadan Cross River, Calabar, Abuja, and Lagos. Volunteers with Food Not Bombs and Indymedia will host the 2006 African Conference on Formal Consensus and Nonviolent Social Change focusing on building a strong movement for Africans peacefully changing their community for the better and an end hunger and poverty.
Food Not Bombs in Nigeria
Photos of the Niger Delta
Nigeria head offers Delta boost BBC News - April 17, 2006
NIGERIA: Delta militants' car bomb kills two at military base in oil city April 20, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - APRIL 20, 2006
CONTACT: Keith McHenry 520-770-0575 - Yinka Dada +2348034870077
Idowu O.Israel +2348028330270