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CIRCLES OF CHANGE!
HONOURING XINGU RIVER and Its People!
Suzana Grau (SLO)

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I love movies! I love stories and images they capture and there has been many movies that inspired and
uplifted my Spirit. Yes, there are also movies that are a downfall in this industry, but I choose carefully
what images I consume. I simply follow the instinct; is this resonating or its a garbage to pass time… And
yes there are certain directors that always or almost always capture something that touches me
profoundly.
I remember seeing Titanic as a young girl, of course I first fell for the love story of Rose and Jack, as any
other girl, but as the years passed I see yet another layer of this epic story. I see crushing boat on the
iceberg as a metaphor. It is the ice around our hearts that we are crushing on. It is our coldness and
ignorance to respond to The Essence of Life that might drown us.
When Avatar came out I knew immediately I have to see it, little did I know that the movie, beautiful as it is
in its colours, captures the real danger happening in the Amazon Rain Forrest. People of Pandora are
People of XINGU River. Pandora people are Mayalu Txucarramãe, Chief Raoni and Shayla Juruna. We are
the invaders into their Ways of life. We want to build dams on their River. We don't care if they die or if
they have to move from their land.
We care for the profit.
We forgot that this forest brings air to us and generations yet to be born. 25% of our oxygen, or every 4th
breath of air we inhale, attributes to the Amazon Rain Forest.
We forgot that Xingu brings food and a place to live, a Home to The Fishermen and Munduruku, Juruna,
Kayapo, Xipaya, Kuruaya, Asurini, Parakanã, Arara tribes who live in Brazil.
Have we cried as we watched invading Pandora in Avatar? I have. Yes. And when they unite under the Tree
of Life and sing and move a Song of Change – to bring back Life - my heart went off.
WE HAVE TO UNITE LIKE THAT and prevent disaster, genocide and expelling of more than 40,000
indigenous and local populations!
The Brazilian government and its president Dilma Rousseff are planning to construct the Belo Monte megadam on the Xingu River, one of the 60 dams in the Amazon!
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