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Home | Friday 5th December 2008 | Issue 658

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* Protesting the auction of Iraqi oil to multi-national companies, the Hands Off Iraqi Oil crew staged a ‘Sale of the Century’ protest outside the Iraq Petroleum Forum last Monday (1st December). While oil industry big wigs bashed out the details for controlling Iraq’s oil reserves for the next 20 years, be-suited and be-masked protesters held their own version of the carving up of Iraqi national resources outside the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London. www.handsoffiraqioil.org

* Activists from around Yorkshire staged an anti-ID card protest last week at the Sheffield Home Office building. After chaining themselves to the general entrance they managed to prevent the members of the public entering the building for several hours until the area was cleared by police. Eleven activists were arrested but later released with a caution. www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/12/414234.html

Keywords: oil, iraq


 

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