A Public Dis-Service Announcement From Shell-Propagandhi

[ti:A Public Dis-Service Announcement From Shell] [ar:Propagandhi] [al:Less Talk, More Rock] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.43]A Public Dis-Service Announcement From Shell - Propagandhi [00:02.45] [00:09.85]People have the right to the truth unvarnished [00:12.62]Even uncomfortable but never subjugated to a cause [00:16.43]However noble or well meaning [00:18.53]They have the right to clear thinking [00:19.93] [00:20.72]Slogans protests and boycotts don't offer answers [00:23.65] [00:24.28]It has been suggested that shell should pull out of enveloping nations [00:28.12]Altogether [00:28.40] [00:29.21]The oil would certainly continue flowing [00:30.61] [00:31.28]The business would continue operating [00:32.42] [00:33.49]The vast majority of the employees would remain in place [00:36.19]But the sound and ethical business practices synonymous with shell [00:40.10]The environmental investment [00:42.20]And the tens of millions of dollars spent on community programs [00:45.50]Would all be lost [00:46.62] [00:47.44]Again it's the people of developing nations that you would hurt [00:51.60] [00:52.18]It's easy enough to sit in your comfortable homes in the west [00:55.61]Calling for sanctions and boycotts against a developing country [00:58.08] [00:58.62]But you have to be sure that knee jerk reactions won't do more [01:01.56]Harm than good [01:02.67] [01:03.77]Some campaigning groups say that we should intervene in the political process [01:07.87]In developing nations [01:08.81]But even if we could we must never do so [01:11.25] [01:13.09]Politics is the business of governments and politicians [01:15.47]The world where companies use their economic influence to prop up or [01:20.86]Bring down governments [01:21.81] [01:22.37]Would be a frightening and bleak one indeed