Event Details — Sweet Crude screening in Houston

Sweet Crude, a movie about Nigeria’s Niger Delta, will be showing on Tuesday, May 25th, at 8:30pm, at the Angelika Theater (map). An email from Abby Rubinson, Coordinator of Justice in Nigeria Now, describes the screening and movie in more detail:

Come to a Special screening of Sweet Crude, followed by Q & A with
- Macon Hawkins, an oil worker held hostage by armed militants who remains sympathetic to the needs of those living in the Niger Delta;
- Emem Okon, a leader of Nigeria’s women’s movement; and
- Omoyele Sowore, an activist from a Chevron production area in Nigeria.

This must-see screening takes place at Houston’s Angelika Theater, on May 25th, 8:30pm.

Join us for this powerful documentary about Nigeria, the U.S. and oil, plus Q & A with an amazing set of speakers—on the eve of Chevron’s May 26th Shareholder meeting in Houston!

For more information, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Synopsis:
Sweet Crude is about Nigeria’s Niger Delta - the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction, the history of non-violent protest, and the members of a new insurgency who, in the three years since we met them as college students, became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The film confronts issues of human rights, resource control, environmental justice and mainstream media agendas. The film crew was imprisoned by the Nigerian military last year in an effort to suppress the film. It didn’t work. Now we are working hard to get it seen by as many people as possible.

Trailer: sweetcrudemovie.com/videoGallery
Website: sweetcrudemovie.com