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dam-l Update - March 14 Day of Action against Dams
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Water for Life, Not for Death!
March 14 International Day of Action against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life
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Dear Friends,
The Day of Action is three weeks away, and the list of groups participating
is growing each day. More than 37 actions are planned in 20 countries to
protest against dams and speak out for free-flowing rivers and the
communities that depend on them. We urge you to join us on March 14 for the
Day of Action.
Below are descriptions of some actions planned for the Day of Action. Look
below to see what is happening in your region and around the world. If you
are thinking about doing an action but have not yet decided what to do, you
may find ideas or inspiration in these actions. If you are planning an
action and have not yet contacted me, please do so. (And, if you have
contacted me but your action is not listed, be sure to send me a one
paragraph description of your event.)
Please provide me with the following information:
* One or two paragraph description of your event
* Name of organizing group
* Contact person
* Address
* City, Postal code, Country
* Phone
* Fax
* E-mail
* Website
Note: Make sure to tell me if your action should NOT BE MENTIONED on
our website or to the media (there are cases where the action needs to be
kept quiet until the day it takes place).
We encourage you to also document your action, whether by photographs,
video, written account, or all of the above. We will be preparing a packet
documenting events organized for the 2000 Day of Action. Also, please keep
local press that you receive regarding your action and send it to us along
with a few photos. Please send to IRN (Attn: Susanne Wong).
We are very excited about this year's Day of Action and look forward to
standing together in solidarity against dams on March 14! For more
information, visit our web page at www.irn.org/dayofaction.
Water for life, not for death!
Susanne Wong
International Rivers Network
swong@irn.org
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ACTIONS PLANNED FOR THE
MARCH 14, 2000 DAY OF ACTION AGAINST DAMS
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AFRICA
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*SOUTH AFRICA
SARA/African Paddling Association
Action: Plans to get river operators to mark the day symbolically on every
river by telling clients and notifying all guides.
Information:
Graeme Addison
P.O. Box 645
IRENE, 0062 South Africa
tel: 27 (012) 667-1838
email: graemea@intekom.co.za
*SOUTH AFRICA
Southern African Water Crisis
Action: Organizing a walk for water to protest against further destruction
of the grassland biome. We consider walking from MacMac Falls to Sabie (10
km) and hand over memos to the regional Mondi, Safcol and Sappi offices
located in Sabie asking for a moratorium on new alien tree plantations in
the Southern Africa region.
Information:
Philip Owen
P.O. Box 199
Schagen, 1207 South Africa
email: info@sawac.co.za
website: www.sawac.co.za
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EAST ASIA
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*JAPAN
Sagami River Camp-in Symposium
Action: Paddling down the Sagami river against dams on March 12.
Demonstration, February 28 10:00 at the Yokohama law court, The oral
pleading of the lawsuit to stop Sagami-ozeki; a water intake dam.
Information:
Ken-ichi Kanao
Chigasaki, Kanagawa, JAPAN
tel: 81-467-51-2446
email: ken-ichi.kanao@nifty.ne.jp
website: www3.justnet.ne.jp/~kanaoken/oozeki/
*JAPAN
Association of Fishermen to Preserve the Kumagawa and the Kawabegawa
Action: We will plant trees in the mountain along the Kuma River (of which
the Kawabe is a tributary) to raise a "Green Dam" instead of a "Concrete
Dam" on March 5th. The "Green Dam" consisting of trees will help to ensure
a plentiful flow of water and prevent flooding .We chose a "Green Dam" of
trees instead of a "Concrete Dam" because the "Concrete Dam" will cause
sediment and gravel to collect and the dam will eventually have to be
abandoned in the future. A "Green Dam" of will maintain a plentiful flow of
water and prevent flooding. Let's place our rivers and mountains under the
care of fishermen and citizens who know how precious mother nature is.
Let's plant trees!
Information:
Takatoshi Shigematsu
214-3 Kitaizumida-machi,
Hitoyoshi-shi,
Kumamoto Japan
tel/fax:+81-966-22-3917
email: kawabe00@bronze.ocn.ne.jp
*JAPAN
Citizens for Saving the Kawabe (Fukuoka branch)
Action: On March 12, from 11-1pm, we will canoe on the Naka River which
flows through the center of Fukuoka city, distributing handbills explaining
the Kawabe River Dam issue and appealing to citizens about the uselessness
of the Kawabe River dam.
Information:
Manabu Matsubara
4-4-3-209 Hakomatsu,
Higashi-ku,
Fukuoka-shi Fukuoka 812-0061 Japan
tel/fax:+81-92-623-1765
email: manabu@aero.kyushu-u.ac.jp
website: member.nifty.ne.jp/TAMA-TAMA/
*JAPAN
Citizens for Saving the Kawabe (Kumamoto Headquarters)
Action: On March 19, from 1-6pm, we will distribute handbills explaining
the Kawabe River Dam issue in the center of Kumamoto city and appeal to
citizens to oppose dams. At the same time, we will collect signatures in
order to request an environmental assessment.
Information:
Yasuyo Kunitoku
5-4-59-801 Kuhonji,
Kumamoto-shi,
Kumamoto 860-0976 Japan
tel/fax: +81-96-364-6039
e-mail: yokon@ab.mbn.or.jp
website: kawabe.technologic.co.jp/ (Japanese)
kawabe.technologic.co.jp/eng.html (English)
*JAPAN
WaterWatch Network
Action: On 3/12, will organize canoe protest on Uchikawa, the branch of
Akagawa River on which the Gassan Dam is planned. Afterwards, there will be
a Water for Life meeting and a River of Words (poetry reading), a haiku on
the "Kawa no Kotoba" The Impression of the River & Tsuruoka Water.
Information:
Stern Kusajima
997-0023 Torii-Machi Tsuruoka-city
Yamagata pref.Japan
email: stern@jca.ax.apc.org
website: www.jca.ax.apc.org/water-w/
*KOREA
Korean Federation for Environmental Movement
Action: KFEM is planning to organize rallies between March 14(the Day of
Action) and 22(Water Day) with people from the Tong River, Tallae River and
Nakdong River area.
Information:
Ma Yong-woon
Korean Federation for Environmental Movement
251 Nooha-dong, Chongo-gu, Seoul, 110-042, Republic of Korea
tel: 82 (0)2 735 700
fax:82 (0)2 730 1240
email: ma@kfem.or.kr
website: kfem.or.kr
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
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*PHILIPPINES
Movement Against San Roque Dam and all Mega dams
Action: Coordinated mass actions will be launched in Pangasinan, Baguio
City and at the National Capital Region.
Information:
Joan Carling
Cordillera People's Alliance
PO Box 975
2600 Baguio City
Philippines
tel: +63 74 4453616
fax: +63 74 4437159
email: cpa@is.phil.gn.apc.org
*THAILAND
Southeast Asia Rivers Network (SEARIN)
Action: Protests to be announced.
Information:
Chainarong Sretthachau
Southeast Asia Rivers Network (SEARIN)
25/5 Moo 2 Soi Sukhapibarn 27
Changkhien- Jed Yod Road
Chang Phuek, Muang,
Chiang Mai 50300, Thailand
email: searin@chmai.loxinfo.co.th
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LATIN AMERICA
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*ARGENTINA
Asociacion Comunidad de la Cuenca del Nahuel Huapi
Action: They are fighting construction of the Segunda Angostura Dam in the
last stretch of the Rio Limay that has remained undammed and would be
within the Nahuel Huapi National Park.
Information:
Daniel Paz Barreto
Gallardo 910, 2do. D.
8400 SC de Bariloche
Rio Negro, Argentina
website: www.bariloche.com.ar/cuenca
*BRAZIL
MAB -Movimento dos Antingdos por Barragens
Action: Many actions are planned for the diverse regions throughout the
country. Contact the local groups for more information.
*CHILE
Grupo de Accion por el BioBio (GABB)
Action: We will address a seminar on natural resource management of the
International Anthropological Association, and will also organize events at
some universities.
Information:
Marcus Orellana Cruz
4 Poniente 1414
Talca Chile
email: tasmi@hotmail.com
*COLOMBIA
Censat Agua Viva (FoE Colombia)
Action: They are organizing a meeting of Latin American anti-dam activists.
Information:
Hildebrando Velez
Apartado Aéreo 16789
Santafé de Bogotá, D.C.
Colombia
tel: +57-1-2456860
fax: +57-1-2458906
email: censat@colnodo.apc.org
*NICARAGUA
Action: Magda Lanuza, Nicaragua. Preparing a petition regarding
contamination of rivers of the North Atlantic by mining. The petition will
be presented in June before the Central American Water Tribunal.
Information:
Magda Lanuza
Centro Alexander von Humbolt, Programa Incidencia Ambiental Apdo
Postal 768, Managua, Nicaragua
tel: +505-2492903
email: humbolt@ibw.com.ni
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NORTH AMERICA
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*USA
Guy Parsons
Action: Demonstration against Tacoma City Light (now Tacoma Power) to
compensate indigenous peoples and return Salmon to the Skokomish North
Fork River! Stop the diversion of flow and restore the river and life.
Information:
Guy L. Parsons
email: ParsonsGMC@aol.com
*USA
Glen Canyon Action Network
Action: The newly formed Glen Canyon Action Network is planning an event
that will bring together people from all walks of life on their journey to
a restored Glen Canyon. "On our way to Glen Canyon" local citizens and
world-renown activists will stop at the dam's visitors' center in Page,
Arizona to talk about what the journey means to them.
Information:
Owen Lammers
PO Box 466
Moab, Utah. 84532
tel: 435-259-1063
email: info@drainit.org
website: www.drainit.org
*USA
Delaware Riverkeeper Network
Action: Planning Ceremony at dawn at dam site. Local Native American group
will lead blessing. Group has been fighting dam for a few years.
Information:
Tracy Carluccio
PO Box 326
Washington Crossing, PA 18977
email: tracy@delawareriverkeeper.org
*USA
Columbia University's student Earth Coalition
Action: To be announced.
Information:
Elaine Shen
email: EShen626@aol.com
*USA
Hartnell College
Action: They will hold an environmental poetry reading in Steinbeck Hall
rm. HCC 166 from 12:30-1:30
Information:
Maria Tabor
Hartnell College
Salinas, CA 93901
tel: 831.755.6883
email: riversparent@hotmail.com
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OCEANIA AND AUSTRALIA
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*AUSTRALIA
Inland Rivers Network
Action: May launch submission to the new Water Act in NSW and talk to
interested journalists on thermal pollution, fish and flows. Other groups,
WWF and government Parks and Wildlife Service may have similar launch.
Planning joint NSW-Queensland campaign on flows.
Information:
Dr Stuart Blanch
Inland Rivers Network
33 George St,
Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
tel: 02 9241 6267
website: nccnsw.org.au/member/wetlands/home/
*AUSTRALIA
Pedder 2000
Action: Living Rivers Festival March 10-19 In Tasmania, Australia, Pedder
2000 is organizing a 10-day Living Rivers Festival from March 10 - March
19. They will celebrate the river as a powerful symbol of water and life,
and aim to focus energy on the challenge of river restoration in the
current "Century for Restoring the Earth."
Information:
Helen Gee
Pedder 2000
Stonehurst,
Buckland Tasmania, Australia 7190
email: pedder@tassie.net.au
website: neptune.he.net/~pedder/
*AUSTRALIA
National Conservation Council of NSW
Action: Considering launch of healthy rivers campaign on March14 to
coincide with their release of a response to a proposed new water
legislation.
Information:
Jacquie Svenson
Nature Conservation Council of NSW
Level 5, 362 Kent Street
Sydney NSW 2000
tel: 02 92792522
fax:02 9279 2499
email: jsvenson@nccnsw.org.au
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON
DAY OF ACTION, CONTACT:
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Susanne Wong
International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94703 USA
phone: 510 848 1155
email: swong@irn.org
web: www.irn.org/dayofaction