Wednesday, October 17, 2007
RIFF-RAFF RUN OUT OF TOWN
Brazilians rise up against imperialist invaders:
Hundreds of loggers and angry residents have surrounded eight Greenpeace members who tried to leave an Amazon town with a scorched tree trunk for an exhibit on global warming, the environmental group said Wednesday.
The activists are holed up in the makeshift headquarters of the federal environmental agency in the town of Castelo dos Sonhos, Greenpeace campaigner Andre Muggiati said. They are being protected by police and army soldiers.
Let’s see how long they hold out. So, what’s to become of the global warming exhibit?
[Greenpeace representative] Marcelo Marquesini said loggers had hauled the tree trunk away and told him they planned to make it into a monument in a public square.
“They’re probably going to use it to commemorate the day they expelled Greenpeace from the town,” he added.
That is the most beautiful thing I’ve read in years.
(Via Blue State Sil)