CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD - Ed Kashi interviewed by Bill Ryan from Project Avalon

Ed Kashi is a photojournalist who, among much other striking visual work, made a powerful and graphic 8-minute film called CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD: how Shell Oil have, for the last 40 years, mercilessly trashed the beautiful natural environment of the Niger Delta in Nigeria to create a natural and social catastrophe that dwarfs what we have recently witnessed in the Gulf of Mexico.

Why has this been allowed to happen? Why no clean-up? Why no corporate responsibility? Because no-one is looking. I interviewed Ed Kashi to hear first hand about the Niger Delta atrocity - there is no other word for it - and we spoke for 30 minutes about how it is imperative that we change the way we regard and care for Planet Earth.

I'm most grateful to Ed Kashi and Talking Eyes Media for their kind permission to include this wonderful and important short film at the end of my video presentation here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TNsoD1T2qBY

It starts at 16:27 and lasts for 8 minutes. See this, if nothing else. This is what's being done to the human race when no-one in the first world is watching. The film Avatar comes to mind. It's all right here on Planet Earth. You don't have to go to Pandora.

http://edkashi.com
http://curseoftheblackgoldbook.com

http://projectavalon.net

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[rushkagoncrapartist]

PLS REPOST AND DONT FORGET in 5 mins

thx..... ....Thanks Bill

stay away from Kerry now that you are obviously fighting for humanity, l hope you continue to evolve and not devolve

[MrMoremoor]

Africans in diaspora No more ghetto politics, fire is burning family, pull your pants up, fuck trivia --- for over 40 years Africa has had worse than the gulf of mexico oil spill in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, who is the brotha or sista exposing this?

wake up, stop leaving the bigger issues that affect us to so called crackas , only to fight among each other calling each other sell outs, etc

wake up

[witecracker2]

I hope those devil minions fall into a pit...

[kaymany]

may the most high God bless you Edd . thanks for having a conscience . please keep it up .trust me many people will try to criticize you and discourage you even blacks would say racist shit but please don't give up . together lets change this pathetic planet

[3martijns]

eddie is a Commie.

Every government has corruption, but the USA has Much Less than Most!!

[Jewelashlar]

@TheRestlesswind weirdo indeed, l AGREE

[Jewelashlar]

@TheRestlesswind L AGREE BUT YOU MEAN IN WESTERN TERMS, only with you westerners

thx

[Rosa Marzullo]

I didnt write the book on racism....but I can sure write the ending!

[zuzuxwater]

MA'AT!!!!!

[Holycrapper]

All these big companies and businesses controlling modern civilization with there corruption lies and greed are full of S**T.

It makes me mad. Out with the old and in with the new.

Boring, wasteful institutions, Greedy bastards to hell with you. These Waistful, self gratifying, overrated, ill determined, disillusioned, dishonest and selfish organizations should have passed the torch onto life sustaining institutions a while ago. Every decade creates an aeon of distruction for selfishness.

[jx14aby]

LOL!!!!

Too much truth.