Kucinich to Receive Statement By Oil Workers Union on U.S. Govt's Role in Privatizing Iraqi Oil

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Congressman Kucinich to Receive Statement By Oil Workers Union on U.S. Government's Role in Privatizing Iraqi Oil
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2007-06-05 00:32. Activism | Congress

When: Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Time: 6 p.m.
Where: Cannon Terrace
Corner of New Jersey Avenue and Independence Avenue

Just two weeks ago, Congress passed and President Bush signed legislation that set several benchmarks for the Iraqi government, including the passage of a hydrocarbon law by the Parliament. The Administration misled Congress by emphasizing only a small part of this law: the so-called 'fair distribution of oil revenues.'

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a staunch opponent of the Iraqi Hydrocarbon Act, will receive a statement by the Oil Workers Union to BearingPoint tomorrow afternoon. BearingPoint is a consulting firm that received a U.S. government contract to assist the Iraqi government in drafting its oil law, which would privatize control of Iraqi oil.

Two top leaders in Iraq's labor movement, Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, President of the Electrical Utility Workers Union and Faleh Abood Umara, General Secretary of the Iraq Federation of Oil Unions, will begin a 12-city U.S. tour, which concludes in Atlanta on June 29. They will describe the likely consequences if the occupation continues, what might occur if it ends and prospects for a stable, democratic, non-sectarian future for Iraq.

Kucinich, along with leaders in Iraq's labor group, will discuss the extensive deception about the content of the hydrocarbon law, a deception which has taken in members of Congress and the media. Misdescribed tactically as a revenue sharing plan, it is in fact a radical plan to privatize Iraq's oil. The law before the Iraq Parliament contains 3 vague lines about revenue sharing and 33 solid pages of a complex legal restructuring, facilitating the privatization of Iraq's oil resources.

This event is part of a "Voices of Iraqi Workers Solidarity Tour" sponsored by U.S. Labor Against the War, United for Peace and Justice and the American Friends Service Committee.

in congress who gives a damn about this issue.
WHY?

interpretation of this law, the rest of the dems are not very bright and do not understand it or they are knowingly complicit in the theft of Iraqi oil. We need answers, this should be a question asked at the debates of all the candidates.

for the war. Maybe part of the reason Biden still does.

"knowingly complicit"

:shrug:

"knowingly complicit".

http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org/2007/06/iraqi-oil-pipeline-workers-on-strike.html

"Workers from the Iraqi Pipelines Company in Basra are on strike today.

Workers began the strike at 6.30 this morning by shutting two 14"
pipelines carrying oil and gas products inside Iraq.

The strike is over unfulfilled demands tabled by the Iraqi Federation of
Oil Unions (IFOU) - of which the Iraqi Pipelines Union is a member - to
Prime Minister Maliki on May 16th 2007. The 16 demands focus on improved
working conditions, pay, land for homes, a reduction in the national
price of fuel and crucially, inclusion in the Oil Law drafting process.

Prime Minister Maliki agreed to the Federation's demands and established
a committee comprised of Ministry of Oil, IFOU and Southern Oil Company
representatives to implement the demands.

Strike leaders say, if the government does not implement the agreement,
the 48" crude pipeline to Baghdad will be shut.

Further details including a statement from the union tba

see www.basraoilunion.org and www.handsoffiraqioil.org for further
updates"


http://www.basraoilunion.org/

http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org/

that happen can we.

:(

:woohoo:

he may be our times paul revere, spreading the word about the horrific overtaking of our world by ruthless corporatists. not so different from the danger which inspired the original rider.