About Us
Mission: MOSOP-USA, St. Louis Chapter seeks to promote Social Justice by challenging Environmental and Human Rights Abuse and Valuing Diversity in our communities.
Vision: To end injustice around the world. MOSOP envisions a world that values diversity, loves freedom and promote equality.
Values: Freedom, Equality, Justice, Accountability, Integrity and Transparency
Our Services
We organize educational programs and advocacy campaigns and promotion on the following social justice issues:
1. Environmental rights abuse
2. preservation and conservation/Restoration of the environment
3. Human rights abuse
4. Disease prevention and health promotion
5. The plight of refugees around the world
6. Corporate Social Responsibilities
7. Non-violence Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation
8. Diversity
MOSOP-USA, ST. LOUIS CHAPTER fights for the rights of the indigenous people around the world, and their environment!
HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION
The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) was a one man’s dream to end environmental degradation, political marginalization and economic strangulation of a downtrodden ethnic minority group (Ogoni and the Niger Delta Region) in Nigeria. The founder, Ken Saro-Wiwa was an environmentalist, a play-right, a writer and a public servant who believed that the Ogoni people of Nigeria in particular and Africa in General will be extinct from the surface of the earth if he didn’t do anything about the reckless oil prospecting activities by Shell Multinational Oil Company and other oil companies.
In order to alleviate the dehumanizing condition of the Ogoni People in particular, Late Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa invested and committed his financial and intellectual resources to a peaceful and nonviolence struggle. He mobilized and aroused the consciousness of his people to a common cause; end environmental devastation and human rights abuse of his people, Ogoni. This led to the formation of MOSOP.
THE FORMATION OF MOSOP
The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) is an Ogoni-based non-governmental, non-political apex organisation of the Ogoni ethnic minority people of South-Eastern Nigeria and was founded in 1990 with the mandate to campaign non-violently to:• Promote democratic awareness;
• Protect the environment of the Ogoni People;• Seek social, economic and physical development for the region;
• Protect the cultural rights and practices of the Ogoni people; and
• Seek appropriate rights of self-determination for the Ogoni people.
Ken Saro-Wiwa and other leaders of the movement were later murdered in broad day light, by the Shell Oil Company and the Federal Government of Nigeria in 1995.
MOSOP-USA, ST. LOUIS CHAPTER: Following the 1995 mass killings of Ogoni People by the Nigerian Government and Shell Oil Company, the Ogoni People fled to various Refugee Camps in West African neighboring countries, including Federal Republic of Benin, Ghana, Togo, and others. Although some Ogonis are still in refugee camps around African Countries, some were resettled to Canada and United States of America. Four out of the first group of Ogonis that were resettled to the United States found their new home in St. Louis, Missouri.
This first group of re-settlers in their quest to continue the Ogoni cause for clean environment, political and socio-economic equality of their people in Nigeria formed MOSOP-USA, St. Louis in 1996 as a chapter of MOSOP-USA, although have since then operated independently as a legal entity. Since then, MOSOP-St. Louis has become the home of hundreds of Ogonis and other refugees, especially of African descent . We have hosted countless workshops, symposia, conferences and panels on social justice issues, ranging from environmental preservation/conservation/restoration/remediation, human rights abuses and health promotion/disease prevention. We partner with several Not-For-Profit Organizations from Africa and United States in advancing human and environmental rights of the oppressed in Nigeria in particular and the whole world in General.
MOSOP-USA, St. Louis Chapter is registered in St. Louis, Missouri and guided by its By-Laws and the 1990 MOSOP Constitutional provision, while functioning under the non-profit provisions of the United States of America. It accepts as its working instrument, the Ogoni Bill of Rights (OBR), which details the demands of the Ogoni people within the environmental, economic, social, and human rights frameworks of Nigeria and the international community. MOSOP-USA St. Louis Chapter is a 501 (c)(3) Non-for-profit organization
ACHIEVEMENTS OF MOSOP
MOSOP-USA, ST. LOUIS CHAPTER fights for the rights of the indigenous people around the world, and their environment!
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