STOP Belo Monte
\nit read from the air
\n300 people
\ntheir passions did share
\nThis out pouring of grief
\ndue to the way
\nBrazil has created
\nBelo Monte<\/p>\n
At the Amazon’s heart
\nThe great river Xing gu
\nThey, restored its flow
\nof course with the view
\nThey erected, crosses
\nfor the hundreds
\nwho’ve died
\nplanting new trees
\non the opposite side
\nProviding this channel
\nthrough the coffer dam brought
\nwater flowing again
\nwhich was what they all sought.<\/p>\n
This is the artery
\nthat they all need
\nthis brings them life
\nAnd helps them succeed
\nA dam isn’t needed here
\nit cuts the flow
\nof lifes blood
\nto all of the people
\nyou know
\nThis hydro electric project
\nwas wrong
\nThis was the message
\ncontained in their song<\/p>\n
And all were now singing it
\ntheir life regained
\nThis Land is ours
\nof course they complained
\nas the Corporates came
\nwith promises too
\nguarantee markets
\nwhich no one can do
\nThis indigenous Land
\nis clearly the way
\nBack from disaster
\nLets get real Today!<\/p>\n
Brazil has to reckon
\nwhat this dam achieves
\nthe corporate nonsense
\nno one believes
\nexcept politicians
\nreckoned to be
\nup in the world
\nof this Dam policy
\nThere are thousands of
\npeople who thrive on the edge
\nOf the mighty Xing gu
\nwhich many allege
\nhas to be flowing
\nthis project must cease
\nThe land is ours
\nOnly we can release<\/p>\n
The grief and the
\nsadness
\nthe terrible pain
\naffecting the people
\nits clearly now plain
\nthe mighty Xing gu
\nmust continue to flow
\nfor otherwise this dam
\nwill be a death blow<\/p>\n
The Rio Earth summit
\nmust realise now
\nThat the mighty Xing gu
\nIs obviously how
\nThousands of people
\nlive, out their lives
\nand this unwanted Dam
\nwill mean no one survives
\nNow it boils down
\nto the end of their world
\ncarrying on with the project
\nhas hurled
\nThem into a maelstrom of
\nuncertainty
\nat the heart of the Amazon
\nborn to be free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Belo Monte hydro electric scheme in Brazil at the heart of the Amazon. Activsts carve a channel ensuring that the River Xingu flows again Continue reading