Brazilian Indians ride a bus to protest a
proposed hydroelectric dam on Xingu River.
Indigenous women, bearing machetes,
Protest against the construction of the Belo
Monte dam.
400 km2 of agricultural land will be flooded
Permanent drought on the Xingu River
Over 20,000 people will be relocated
During its first 10 years of operation
Belo Monte
streets
# Tryin to make a livin
# albums and still no dollars
# And you wanna know why
I hit the block for more
# These mad streets
# Got me puffin on dro, Im guilty
# For tryin to make a livin
Man: Maybe one of you will survive.
# Hell, yeah, out there tryin just to eat
# Live, huh, survive
# What, yeah, bounce
# What?
# For the struggle
# Keep it movin
# Im gonna shoot straight
through the door
street
tomorrow, Mr. Duffy.
You go right ahead.
We all believe in free speech.
We got to.
lts in the Constitution.
My boy is distributing
those handbills now.
lts a free country, Willie.
lf you can convince people
to vote for you...
...you go right ahead.
What did you want to see me about?
l wanted you to meet a fella...
...that came all the way up
from the state capital to meet you.
A reporter.
The movie begins with scenes of people screaming in horror and running down the streets of a big city. The ground shakes from what seems like giant footsteps. There are pieces of building debris falling everywhere, people getting crushed, power lines coming down, etc. - complete pandemonium. It all looks very much like a Japanese animated King-Kong or Godzilla movie. We hear the footsteps getting
dam coming up. -
- The man who goes to the Senate cant
ask any questions or talk out of tone.
- We have to be absolutely sure of him.
- I say Horace Miller.
Hell take orders all right.
Suppose we dont
go through with this dam?
Postpone it until next session
of Congress. Or drop it all together.
That would be a crime, Joe...
After all the work we put in on it.
Burying it in this deficiency bill
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