<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for American filmmakers arrested in Niger Delta]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/nigeria1/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:19:21 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/nigeria1/1 Another Olympic Protest


We are the 4th, but China is the largest importer of Nigerian crude.

If anyone is to blame in Africa for problems such as Sudan and Niger, it's the Chinese government.

Tibet is just a feather compared to the tons of impacts China -- who has what seems to be zero international conscience -- has on the world.

Protest China.
Protest the Olympics.



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We are the 4th, but China is the largest importer of Nigerian crude.

If anyone is to blame in Africa for problems such as Sudan and Niger, it's the Chinese government.

Tibet is just a feather compared to the tons of impacts China -- who has what seems to be zero international conscience -- has on the world.

Protest China.
Protest the Olympics.



]]> Comment #2 by Wolverine http://www.grist.org/article/nigeria1/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:57:16 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/nigeria1/2 Don't Forget American Oil Companies

While China does a lot of evil stuff, the U.S. is home to the oil companies mostly to blame for what's been going on in Nigeria over the past decade or two.  Chevron especially is guilty of much destruction and death in that area.

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While China does a lot of evil stuff, the U.S. is home to the oil companies mostly to blame for what's been going on in Nigeria over the past decade or two.  Chevron especially is guilty of much destruction and death in that area.

]]> Comment #3 by dayla2000 http://www.grist.org/article/nigeria1/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:18:08 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/nigeria1/3 Glass Houses as the saying goes...

America was only able to mask many of its unpleasant foreign entanglements because, at the time, there wasn't much of an international conscience. Now that the spotlight's a bit brighter on everyone we should be working with- not fighting against China.

Even though they're the first and we're the fourth, that doesn't mean that we have any less say in what goes on in Nigeria. In fact, as Wolverine pointed out, we host their head offices. I think the American public needs to start talking to members of its own nation before wagging its finger at others.

]]> Glass Houses as the saying goes...

America was only able to mask many of its unpleasant foreign entanglements because, at the time, there wasn't much of an international conscience. Now that the spotlight's a bit brighter on everyone we should be working with- not fighting against China.

Even though they're the first and we're the fourth, that doesn't mean that we have any less say in what goes on in Nigeria. In fact, as Wolverine pointed out, we host their head offices. I think the American public needs to start talking to members of its own nation before wagging its finger at others.

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