Kucinich to Receive Statement on Prvatizing Iraqi Oil By Oil Workers Union

[Omaha Steve]

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Kucinich to Receive Statement on Prvatizing Iraqi Oil
Office of Congressman Dennis Kuinich

For Immediate Release
June 5, 2007
Contact: Natalie Laber [phone]

Media Advisory

Congressman Kucinich to Receive Statement By Oil Workers Union on U.S. Government's Role in Privatizing Iraqi Oil

TODAY

When: Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Time: 6 p.m.

Where: Cannon Terrace

Corner of New Jersey Avenue and Independence Avenue

*In case of inclement weather, the press conference will be held in 2168 Rayburn

Just two weeks ago, Congress passed and President Bush signed legislation that

set several benchmarks for the Iraqi government, including the passage of a

hydrocarbon law by the Parliament. The Administration misled Congress by

emphasizing only a small part of this law: the so-called 'fair distribution of oil revenues.'



Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a staunch opponent of the Iraqi Hydrocarbon Act, will receive a statement by the Oil Workers Union to BearingPoint tomorrow afternoon. BearingPoint is a consulting firm that received a U.S. government contract to assist the Iraqi government in drafting its oil law, which would privatize control of Iraqi oil.

Two top leaders in Iraq's labor movement, Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, President of the Electrical Utility Workers Union and Faleh Abood Umara, General Secretary of the Iraq Federation of Oil Unions, will begin a 12-city U.S. tour, which concludes in Atlanta on June 29. They will describe the likely consequences if the occupation continues, what might occur if it ends and prospects for a stable, democratic, non-sectarian future for Iraq.

Kucinich, along with leaders in Iraq's labor group, will discuss the extensive deception about the content of the hydrocarbon law, a deception which has taken in members of Congress and the media. Misdescribed tactically as a revenue sharing plan, it is in fact a radical plan to privatize Iraq's oil. The law before the Iraq Parliament contains 3 vague lines about revenue sharing and 33 solid pages of a complex legal restructuring, facilitating the privatization of Iraq's oil resources.

This event is part of a "Voices of Iraqi Workers Solidarity Tour" sponsored by U.S. Labor Against the War, United for Peace and Justice and the American Friends Service Committee.

[Tom Joad]

1. Hillary stands strong by the right of the US to insist on privitization.

More than insisting, but to win it by military might, by the blood of Iraqis and US troops.
She is willing to oppose the working people of Iraq, the working people of the US, and stand by Capital in its continuing quest for dominance and control.

Shouldn't we be applauding her "courage" to say NO to the "special interests" of working people, and her willingness to stand by Capital? Despite the possible loss of some union support. Gutsy, ain't she?

[Auggie]

5. If she gets the nomination it will be diffficult to vote for her

[rjones2818]

2. Thanks for the info!

Go Dennis!

My guess is that all of the Dems except for Dennis will support some form of 'take the wealth and I'll get my part' for the Iraqis. It's disgusting.

:evilfrown:

[Rydz777]

3. Thanks to Dennis Kucinich for bringing this into the light of

day. To the small extent that Iraqi oil ownership gets any attention in the media, it is always about dividing the revenues among Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds. It is never about privatization, and it is never about the pressure to involve "foreign investment." This whole Iraqi adventure involves so much slight of hand it is mind boggling.

[Tom Joad]

7. Maybe you can get Gore to say something about this? I actually he

would come on the right side of this. but maybe i am wrong about Gore.

But then maybe i am not. Maybe he isn't the angelic progressive people make him out to be.

[AnOhioan]

4. Dennis is the only one calling attention to this theft

of Iraqi resources. I guess we now know beyond a doubt why the chimp lied us into war.

[Brundle_Fly]

6. Dennis would have my vote for President.

[eridani]

8. And this is why you should support Kucinich--

--regardless of the "electability" meme.

[harlinchi]

9. Why does this have only 11 rec's?

This is the reason for the occupation. This is the reason so many have died, been injured and traumatized in so many ways.