The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140722 Message #3235239
Posted By: Jean(eanjay)
07-Oct-11 - 05:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Belo Monte Dam
Subject: RE: BS: The Belo Monte Dam
This Chief Raoni song "Right to Survive" was written and performed by Claudette Coppholia [aka Shirley Taylor of Loose Element] on 30th September. This is what she has written in the information for the video:
When I read about what the president agreed to in Brazil, "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", I was truly not pleased with this and it inspired this song which I wrote yesterday, Sept. 30 2011. Please enjoy and remember this when you say your prayers or affirmations. Thanks!