O GRITO DOS MANDURUKU, BUILDING DAMS ON THE TAPAJOS RIVER This is a very effective short propaganda piece produced by a group who oppose a new dam project on the lower Tapajós River. The group is a broad coalition of civic and social leaders working to preserve the Amazon basin: Bishops of the Catholic Church, the Munduruku people (some 12000 members centered on the Tapajós River), civil society and social organizations. The rivers of the Amazon nurture and sustain diversity, indeed, they sustain the Amazon climate regulatory system by evacuating to the ocean the excess moisture that cannot be evaporated into the atmosphere and carried inland by the air stream. The Grito dos Manduruku is an allusion to the emblematic Grito do Ipiranga, a much romanticized moment when in 1822, Dom Pedro II was said to have declared for independence, breaking with Portugal, the mother country. The phrase, Grito do Ipiranga in used in Brazilian Portuguese to speak of that moment from which there is no return, that moment when a popular leader dramatically proclaims independence, give me liberty or give me death .
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:56:31 +0000
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