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To: farkarooski who wrote (97969)	7/25/2002 4:40:04 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

Zeta, does Whiteboy play that funky music? M

To: farkarooski who wrote (97969)	7/25/2002 10:39:43 PM
From: Smart_Money	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 99280

Zeta, your need in Nigeria. Half-naked Nigerian women keep up fight vs Chevron LAGOS, July 25 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Nigerian women, some of them half-naked, kept up their siege of at least three of U.S. oil giant ChevronTexaco's flowstations on Thursday and threatened to bare all if their demands are not met. ADVERTISEMENT A community leader said as many as 2,000 unarmed women were still camping outside some pipeline flowstations in the oil-rich western Niger Delta region 10 days after the beginning of their occupation, even as Chevron said it had reached a deal with some of the protesters. The protests, along with a fire at the company's main oil export terminal in Escravos, have already forced Chevron to warn it will not meet its Nigerian production and export targets this month. "The women are almost naked, which makes it dangerous for any man to go near the flow stations," Samson Mamamu, a leader of the Ijaw ethnic group to which some of the women belong, told Reuters. "They are wearing only knickers." Public nudity by adult women, widely considered a taboo in Nigeria, is viewed as a way of shaming others into action. Earlier on Thursday, Chevron said it had reached a deal with some of the protesters and three other flow stations had been vacated. It did not give details of the agreement but a similar 10-day blockade of its Escravos terminal by another group of women only ended after Chevron promised to provide jobs, schools, town halls, electricity and drinkable water for local residents. Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, is the world's sixth biggest producer of oil, but a majority of its 120 million people live in extreme poverty. Oil site takeovers are frequent in the southern Niger Delta region. Angry youths often disrupt production and take oil workers hostage. But the all-women, peaceful protests that have rocked Chevron's operations for more than two weeks are a first. biz.yahoo.com