In May 2009, multinational oil giant Shell would stand trial in United States federal court to answer to charges that it conspired in human rights abuses including murder in Nigeria in the 1990s. The Wiwa v. Shell trial was originally scheduled to begin on May 27, 2009. On May 26, Chief Judge Kimba Wood ordered the trial postponed; she did not yet set a new trial date but set a hearing date for June 1, 2009. That hearing has now been moved to Wednesday, June 3. This mini-documentary tells the story of the rise of an inspiring and nonviolent movement for human rights and environmental justice, and the lengths Shell was willing to go to stop it. For more information, visit:
http://wiwavshell.org and http://shellguilty.com
