The samba band helps draw attention to the Hands off Iraqi Oil Piratical Action Tour of London
Anti-capitalist demonstrators dressed as pirates and toured London with a samba band to draw attention to companies who are profiting from the invasion of Iraq, as the US and UK directed Iraqi government enact free-enterprise free-market laws to allow multinational companies to exploit previously publicly owned Iraqi oil assets. The tour visited the London offices of Erinys International Limited, a private military security company with a reputation for using excessive force which provides security services in Iraq as well as training Iraq's Oil Protection force, BP who provided ex-CEOs to draft new Iraqi hydrocarbon laws and have plans for giant oil fields, the National Portrait Gallery, whose major awards are sponsored by BP and the International Tax and Investment Centre, which is funded to lobby for a free-market approach, before going south of the river for a final rally at the Shell Centre. Shell and former Shell executives have played a leading role in the repurposing the Iraqi oil industry from a state asset to a multinational profit opportunity and have plans for three major oil fields there.
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Location: New Bond St, London, England, UK
Photo credit: © Peter Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
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