'Hands off Iraqi oil' teach-in

'HANDS OFF IRAQI OIL' TEACH-IN
11am-5pm, Saturday 24 March 2007

Union Chapel, Compton Ave, London N1 2XD
Tube: Highbury and Islington
Map: http://tinyurl.com/22y2lc

With:
* Greg Muttitt from PLATFORM (author 'Crude Designs: The rip-off of Iraq's
oil wealth')
* Ewa Jasiewicz from Naftana (UK Support Committee for the General Union of
Oil Employees)

Supported by: Iraq Occupation Focus, Jubilee Iraq, Naftana, Platform, Voices
UK and War on Want.


For the Iraqi people war and occupation has led to hundreds of thousands of
deaths, relentless insecurity and crippling poverty. But for foreign oil
companies the desperate situation in Iraq is a chance to take control of
Iraq's oil and make massive profits at the expense of its people.

A new law that would transfer control of most of Iraq's oil production from
the public sector to multinational oil companies through long-term contracts
of up to 20 or 30 years, now looks set to be rubber-stamped by Iraq's
Parliament in the next few months. Whilst the US and British governments,
the IMF and the big multinational oil companies have all been active in
shaping the new law - which will tie the hands of future governments,
depriving them of democratic control over the country's main natural
resource - the Iraqi public and Iraqi civil society have been excluded from
the process.

Join us on 24th March to:

* find out more about the new law, the companies involved, and the US and UK
Governments' roles in this smash and grab law

* make plans to take action to stop British companies from joining the race
to carve up Iraq's oil wealth.

For more information about the campaign visit www.HandsOffIraqiOil.org.