A draft went out mistakenly (should have stayed on vacation ;-) Here is the correct version:
NEW EARTH RISING 2008 UPDATE: We are nearly there! 81% to goal from 244 donors, $13,594 to go. Assuming pledges made but not yet received come in, we will be able to continue until the end of the year. Yet we will do so with less staff and computer resources than are optimal. We still hope to raise the full minimal budget and we need your help. Please donate now at: http://www.rainforestportal.org/donate/ ********************** ACTION ALERT UPDATE PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Brazil's Xingu River Dam to Damn Amazon Rainforests and Peoples By Rainforest Portal, http://www.rainforestportal.org/ and Water Conserve, http://www.waterconserve.org/ June 30, 2008 TAKE ACTION The wild and free Xingu River is critical to maintaining intact the Amazon, its peoples and the Earth we share http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=brazil_xingu The Brazilian government is planning to build what would be the world's third largest dam on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon. The Xingu River in northeast Brazil is a tributary of the Amazon River. The Belo Monte Dam, meant principally to fuel the expansion of aluminum foundries and other industrial plants in the Amazon, would require diverting nearly the entire flow of the Xingu, drying up the Big Bend of the Xingu and its tributary, the Bacajá, home to hundreds of indigenous people. Native people upstream would also be affected by the dam´s impacts on fish stocks, their principal food source. In May, one thousand indigenous people, in addition to social movements and environmentalists gathered in the town of Altamira, on the Xingu River, to protest the plans for Belo Monte and other dams on the Xingu. Please tell Brazil´s President Lula and other decision makers in the Brazilian government that you support the position of indigenous peoples of the rainforest - that Brazil has better ways of providing its future energy needs than destroying the mighty Xingu River and ancient Amazon rainforests. TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=brazil_xingu --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
