'Hands Off Iraqi Oil' Teach-in, London

Union Chapel, Compton Ave, London N1 2XD
Tube: Highbury and Islington

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 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