{"id":2949,"date":"2008-02-24T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2008-02-24T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T21:29:45","slug":"international-and-iraqi-labor-unions-unite-against-iraqs-draft-oil-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2949","title":{"rendered":"International and Iraqi labor unions unite against Iraq&#8217;s draft oil law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iraq Oil Report<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/iraqoilreport.com\/2008\/02\/24\/international-actions-urge-against-iraq-oil-law-say-no-good-oil-decisions-can-be-made-under-occupation%e2%80%a6-2\/\"> 24 February 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A coalition of U.S. veterans, unions and activists, who fear Iraq\u2019s draft oil law is part of an orchestrated effort to turn Iraq\u2019s oil reserves over to private international oil companies, said at a press conference in Washington Friday that such pressure should be kept up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re not alone. On Saturday there are similar actions to be taken around in England. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/International_Security\/Energy\/Analysis\/2007\/11\/30\/interview_leading_iraqs_oil_workers\/5920\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq\u2019s tens of thousands strong oil unions,<\/a> as well as other political parties and civil society organizations share their concern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIraq oil is not war loot for the oil companies,\u201d said Trina Zahller of Oil Change International. She said any oil law or long-term oil contracts made under occupation would be illegitimate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like the oil industry is becoming ever more brazen\u201d in entering the Iraq oil sector, she said, referring to statements <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/International_Security\/Energy\/Briefing\/2008\/02\/13\/exxon_shell_iraq_oil_law_needed_for_deal\/9680\/\" target=\"_blank\">made by top officials at Shell and ExxonMobil last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/iraqoilreport.com\/2008\/02\/24\/international-actions-urge-against-iraq-oil-law-say-no-good-oil-decisions-can-be-made-under-occupation%e2%80%a6-2\/\">Read the report<\/a>] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq Oil Report 24 February 2008 A coalition of U.S. veterans, unions and activists, who fear Iraq\u2019s draft oil law is part of an orchestrated effort to turn Iraq\u2019s oil reserves over to private international oil companies, said at a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Lz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}