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Murder is Bad – Even in Nigeria
On Monday morning the newly formed “Grassroots Employee Empowerment Division” from Shell emailed 71,900 Shell employees asking them to access a website –murderisbad.com - which has information on the historic Kiobel legal case against the company.
They asked the employees to make their feelings known on Twitter and other media.
In retaliation, Shell blocked its employees from accessing the site. And no wonder. For the Grassroots Employee Empowerment Division does not exist. It is the Yes Men under the auspices of an activist group called People Against Legalizing Murder or PALM for short.
Moreover, Shell does not want its employees to know the truth. As any regular reader of this blog with know, its history in Nigeria is disgraceful: it is one of complicity in murder, and other grotesque human rights abuses, rampant pollution and double standards.
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http://priceofoil.org/2012/10/03/murder-is-bad-even-in-nigeria/
http://murderisbad.com/
