Protests against Belo Monte Dam continue... An event in the U.S. on Sept. 27:

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AMAZON WATCH

This year's Amazon Watch annual luncheon on Sept. 27, noon, at the Julia Ballroom in San Francisco centers around special guest "Sheyla Yakarepi Juruna, an indigenous leader of the Juruna, from the Boa Vista community in Brazil. She has been active in the struggle to defend the Xingu River since the landmark victory in 1989 that stopped the Kararao Dam Complex. Sheyla is an unwavering opponent to the Belo Monte Dam Complex, a key spokesperson for the indigenous peoples resisting the project, and a leader within the Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre (MXVPS)." (quoted from the web site above).

Admission to the luncheon is free, visitors will be asked later to make a donation.

You might remember Sheyla from pictures with a certain Mr. Cameron or Mr. Schwarzenegger, protesting the Belo Monta Dam on location in Brazil. So, if anyone of you near the SF area want to attend, mark that date in your calendar.

Even though the Brazilian federal government has decided to build that abomination, the protest should go on. We have a proverb in German: "Steter Tropfen höhlt den Stein" - you might know this as "Little strokes fell big oaks". Let's not stop dealing those little strokes so that we might help in felling this particular one...

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Txim Asawl*~