Save the wild Patagonian rivers******

> *Action Alert for Wild Patagonia Rivers*
>
> *Please join us for our fabulous bike parade protest—it can make a BIG difference!*
>
> Saturday May 23RD
> At high noon*
> ON BIKES* ( please decorate your ride to get maximum attention )
>
In front of:
> 1 - Cypress Park #6689 ( Lincoln Heights)
> 2055 N Figueroa St
> Los Angeles, CA 90065
> (323)342-9495
>
We are meeting at our community creative space HM157, which is just a short bike ride from Home Despot at 11 to get glamorous and to situate our signs.
>
> HM157 and the Church of Fashion
> 3110 North Broadway
> Los Angeles, CA 90031
> CONTACT : Charon Nogues 562 895-9399 or @ trickypoodle@yahoo.com
> See the attachment: for meeting location identification*
>
> Internatioanl Rivers is organizing demonstrations at various *Home
> Depot* outlets around the country. The connection between Home Depot
> and wild and endangered Chilean rivers?
>
> Home Depot buys from wood suppliers CMPC and Arauco, who are invested in
> the multi-billion dollar /HidroAysén/ scheme that would ruin
> rivers,forests and livelihoods with huge new dams and transmission
> lines. Home Depot acknowledges its suppliers are involved in the disastrous
> dam projects, but claim they only hold a "small minority stake."?
> However,two of Home Depot's wood suppliers together control the
> Chilean partner that owns 49% of the /HidroAysén/ scheme. In fact,
> Home Depot, despite their efforts to foster a “green reputation”, is the largest buyer of timber products from the main Chilean interest promoting the dams.
>
> *We need to tell Home Depot that unless they pull out of these
> dam projects, their customers will pull their business!*
>
> The /HidroAysén/ project involves 3 dams on the *Pascua River* and
> 2 dams on the *Baker River* that would flood globally rare
> forest ecosystems and some of the most productive agricultural land in
> the Aysen region. Electricity from these dams would be sent thousands
> of kilometers north to serve Chile’s biggest cities and its mammoth
> copper industry. More than 2,000 kilometers of transmission lines
> would require one of the world's longest clearcuts--much of it through
> untouched temperate rainforests found nowhere else on the planet.
>
> *International Rivers*, based here in the Bay Area, is carrying out an
> aggressive campaign to save these wild rivers in the Patagonia region
> of South America, working with Chilean grassroots activists as well as
> groups here in the U.S. You can view a stunning and inspiring 3-minute
> slide show @
>
> http://internationalrivers.org/en/latin-america/patagonia/slideshow-wild...
>

> We will have signs, stickers and flyers for you to deliver your message.
>
> Despite polling that shows the majority of Chilean people oppose the
> dam projects that threaten the Pascua and Baker Rivers, the
> Chilean government is illegally moving HidroAysén's dam plans forward.
>
> *Reject The Home Depot's "corporate speak" excuses and let them
> know their customers here in the U.S. care about wild forests and
> rivers in Chile!*
>
> * *
>
> *Info: kim_lobaria@yahoo.com
> >*