as you can see....many things make me cry when i am marking papers
Chief Raoni crying when he learned that the President of Brazil approved the Belo Monte dam project on the Xingu indigenous lands. Belo Monte will be bigger than the Panama Canal, flooding nearly a million acres of rainforest & indigenous lands. 40,000 indigenous and local people will be forced off their native lands (as well as millions of unknown species & plants) In the name of "progress"
THIS REMINDS ME OF A SONG I USED TO LOVE - I CANT FIND THE LYRICS NOW...IT WAS A RECORD( THEY DIDNT HAVE CDs AND dvdS THEN) THAT MY BROTHER BOUGHT FROM AMERICA...
HOW I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR THAT SOULFUL VOICE SINGING THAT SONG....
IT WAS SUNG BY RED INDIANS WHO WERE FORCED OFF THEIR LAND BY THE WHITEMEN WHO CAME TO AMERICA....AND MADE the red indians LIVE IN RESERVATIONS...
and nooo - the red indians are not indian...
I STILL REMEMBER SOME OF THE LYRICS
A proud happy people
we were here long before the white man came
the river gave us fish, the woodlands gave us wood and other wild game
ohhh iiiii ...iiii I wanna get back home again
i cant remember the rest of the lyrics - but the songs in that record painted a
beautiful picture of happy people who were one with nature...
HOW TRAGIC, THAT WE ARE GOING TO MAKE MORE AND MORE HAPPY PEOPLE DISAPPEAR
ALL IN THE NAME OF PROGRESS
A CRYING SHAME INDEED
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