CALL ME NIGERIA: Richard Beavers, 54 min. This documentary presents an exert from a tragic time line with no beginning or end. Take a trip through three weeks of this time line and see workers attempt to fight the suppressing establishment. Witness first hand the people of coastal Nigeria as they struggle with big business oil. This documentary provides a glimpse of an ongoing situation in Nigeria which includes work strikes, natural resources being polluted, unsafe working conditions, as well as unfair compensation for the hazardous work people are performing. See for yourself what happens when a neglectful African nation and an American company decide to park a large oil rig in a local Nigerian backyard.
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