In Memory Of Ken Saro-Wiwa

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From Joel Whitney via MCM:

Friends,

Ken Saro-Wiwa was a writer/environmentalist, lobbying Shell Oil to stop polluting his part of Nigeria. The junta arrested Ken and used a kangaroo court to have him hanged.

This month, a court in New York will decide if Shell was at fault for Ken's death. But this Saturday, in partnership with our dear friends at PEN, Guernica brings you an event in commemoration of Ken, with his son and others, and moderated by our good friend Okey Ndibe.

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May 2, 2009 | Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa

Introduction by Larry Siems, with Ken Wiwa, Richard North Patterson, with a reading by Steve Connell and Sekou; moderated by Okey Ndibe
Cosponsored by Guernica magazine and the Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY

On November 10, 1995, Nigeria's military dictatorship hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa, one of the country's most acclaimed and popular writers and the leader of a grassroots environmental movement in the oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta. The region still seethes with unrest and many of the issues Saro-Wiwa gave his life to raise will be the subject of a lawsuit opening in New York this month against oil interests for complicity in his murder. Join Ken Wiwa Jr. and author Richard North Patterson for a discussion of Ken Saro-Wiwa's literary and political legacy, with readings from Saro-Wiwa's work by Steve Connell and Sekou.

When: Saturday, May 2, 2009: 1-2:30 p.m.
Where: Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue/34th Street
Free and open to the public
MUST WATCH: http://wiwavshell.org/resources/campaign-video/

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Joel Whitney
www.GuernicaMag.com

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