Undead support campaign against Spanish oil multinational

Last Thurs­day 14th June in Asturias, North­ern Spain I was present at an action where a Zom­bie Col­lec­tive came back from the dead to sup­port La Cam­pana Asturi­ana e Con­tra el Expo­lio de las Petrol­eras and oth­er Span­ish sol­i­dar­i­ty organ­i­sa­tions by stag­ing a series of die-ins in a garage fore­court and else­where around the city of Gijon.

Last Thurs­day 14th June in Asturias, North­ern Spain I was present at an action where a Zom­bie Col­lec­tive came back from the dead to sup­port La Cam­pana Asturi­ana e Con­tra el Expo­lio de las Petrol­eras and oth­er Span­ish sol­i­dar­i­ty organ­i­sa­tions by stag­ing a series of die-ins in a garage fore­court and else­where around the city of Gijon.

The action was to draw atten­tion to the actions of Span­ish based oil mul­ti-nation­al Rep­sol who are respon­si­ble for pop­u­la­tion dis­place­ment, mil­i­ta­riza­tion, vio­lence and mur­der in sev­er­al South Amer­i­can coun­tries, most notably Colom­bia, where they oper­ate clan­des­tine­ly.
Pub­lic­i­ty at the action told of El Tri­bunal Per­ma­nente de los Pueb­los (Per­ma­nent Tri­bune of the Peo­ple) that is described as an inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tion, look­ing for truth, jus­tice and repa­ra­tion for the vic­tims of oil com­pa­nies Rep­sol, British Petro­le­um and Occi­den­tal Petro­le­um in Colom­bia. It oper­ates out­side offi­cial judi­cial struc­tures of any coun­try and rep­re­sents the eth­i­cal con­science of the peo­ple and human­i­ty. The TPP is hold­ing a judge­ment on these com­pa­nies in Bogo­ta in August this year. There is also a pre­lim­i­nary meet­ing to this in Madrid in June.

One of the Zom­bies said:
“ We are here in sol­i­dar­i­ty with all those who have died as a result of Repsol’s actions in Colom­bia. We are also here because we wish to make you, the Liv­ing aware of how so many of the organ­i­sa­tions, insti­tu­tions and sys­tems that you cling to are in fact corpses them­selves. From the Oth­er Side we have a clear­er pic­ture than you and we see that though you trick your­selves into believ­ing oth­er­wise, your courts, your gov­ern­ments, your busi­ness­es in so many cas­es serve only Death. You cling to them because you are afraid to let go and allow new sys­tems that can tru­ly serve you and Life to grow. Always some­thing has to die for the new to be born. Many of you hold a new world in your hearts but it can­not be born while you hold on to the rot­ting corpse of the old. Let it go, grieve it if you must but its time is past and it serves you no longer.”

I asked for clar­i­fi­ca­tion but the undead com­pan­era declined to elab­o­rate. Per­haps she was refer­ring to social move­ments where peo­ple seem to be mov­ing away from try­ing to change the behav­iour of gov­ern­ments to learn­ing how to gov­ern them­selves and build the world they want.…?

Relat­ed Link: http://www.repsolmata.ourproject.org