From what I understand , they steal and damage to protest Shell . Now on first thought , that ' s a stupid way to get their point across BUT these people don ' t have the luxury of Americans and Britains . Watching riots on the news , learning what an effective peaceful riot can do , learning what a violent , disruptive riot can do . The people here haven ' t had much experience and if you don ' t already know how to fix something , then you ' re gonna have to go through a trial and error based system of figuring shit out . Take a group of uneducated farmers and fishers , and that solution is going to take a long time to come up with . It ' s like these big educated men have come in to steal from the uneducated children . It ' s easy to blame the group who is being taken advantage of