MOSOP web page coming soon

[Ann Leonard <aleonard@essential.org>]

  >MOSOP Canada Web Site on the way!
  >
  >Through a generous grant from a North American foundation, MOSOP Canada is
  >undertaking a project to build a web site that will: gather all of the best
  >research materials about Ogoni in an online library; have annotated links
  >to all the best sites about Ogoni and Nigeria, including listservs and
  >newsgroups on the Net (Shell-Nigeria-Action of course!);  a quarterly
  >newsletter with up-to-date news from Ogoni; a section on the story of
  >MOSOP; a press gallery for MOSOP Canada press releases; an area for reports
  >from The Ogoni Solidarity Network in Canada (and in other countries); a
  >calendar of worldwide events; a credit card encrypted donations area; and
  >an action centre where fax servers will automatically send faxes to
  >government and Shell officials in Canada, the US, Britain, The Netherlands
  >and Nigeria.
  >
  >One of the aims of the site is to have as many reports and background
  >documents available so that they can be easily downloaded from the site. It
  >would be appreciated if the NGOs who subscribe to this list, and have
  >reports about Ogoni, were able to offer them to us for posting on the site.
  >If your group continues to raise money through the sale of your reports on
  >Ogoni, we could have an order form made online for the publication, but if
  >the report is not a big earner, or if it is now somewhat out-of-date, we
  >would appreciate being sent an electronic copy so that the site can be made
  >into a thorough resource for researchers and campaigners.
  >
  >I will be the volunteer coordinator of the web site creation, overseeing a
  >team in Toronto that has built more than a dozen major nonprofit web sites
  >(including Greenpeace Canada's web site). I will be working closely with
  >Owens and Diana Wiwa here in Toronto in the planning and upkeep of the
  >site. A webmaster will eventually be assigned to the site.
  >
  >Any and all recommendations and background material (in electronic form) is
  >welcome as we plan the scope and content of the site. You can email me at
  >nomad@ican.net.
  >
  >Some of you will already know me, but I should make a short introduction
  >for myself. I was The Body Shop International's Human Rights Campaigner in
  >Britain, and have worked on the Ogoni campaign since early 1993. I am now
  >working independently in Toronto as an activist and filmmaker. 
  >
  >I hope to hear from you in the near future.
  >
  >Sincerely
  >Mark Johnston
  >
  
  Ann Leonard