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...Shell's 30-year-old enterprise in Ogoni land has devastated the environment and sparked the peaceful resistance of which Saro-Wiwa was a leading voice...
Harvard presently owns an estimated $1 million in shares of Shell Oil. These are facts that link us directly to the ongoing crisis in Nigeria. Another fact that should be quite plain--but has apparently evaded many governments, including the United States--is that oil is the lifeblood of the corrupt, brutal, murderous Nigerian government...
...joint venture operated by Shell in Nigeria is responsible for 70 percent of the Nigerian state's revenues. The U.S. buys nearly half of Nigerian oil exports; even though this amounts to less than 10 percent of overall American oil imports. Instead of taking the obvious and most effective measure of an oil embargo on Nigeria, the U.S. and other world governments have preferred to launch futile paper arrows at the Nigerian government through "quiet diplomacy...
...long as the Nigerian government continues to receive a steady flow of oil revenues they shall continue to defy the world community and to brutalize their people to the detriment of the entire West African region. Clearly, Harvard must not lose a moment to disassociate itself immediately from Shell Oil. Just as the U.S. government must boycott Nigerian oil, Harvard too must boycott Shell...
...November 19 regarding Harvard's association with the economic roots of the crisis in Nigeria. The council passed a resolution, with no opposition, calling for complete divestment of the University from oil companies presently investing in Nigeria. The resolution also requests that President Neil L. Rudenstine sign letters to Shell Oil condemning the executions which were clearly motivated by oil interests...