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Water for Life, Not for Death!
March 14 International Day of Action against Dams and for Rivers, 
Water and Life
**********************************************

Dear Friends,

The Day of Action is two weeks away, and the list of groups 
participating is still growing. More than 35 actions are planned in 
22 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 2001 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: Gila Neta).

We are very excited about this year's Day of Action and look forward 
to standing together in solidarity for rivers and against dams on 
March 14!

Water for life, not for death!

Gila Neta
International Rivers Network
gila@irn.org

************************************
SOME OF THE ACTIONS PLANNED FOR THE
MARCH 14, 2001 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
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---SOUTH ASIA---

PAKISTAN

Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD)
They will arrange a gathering in the mid stream down from the Tarbela 
Dam (one of the WCD case study focal dams).  The gathering will 
consist of representatives from riverine indigenous communities, 
communities from coastal areas, fresh water and marine water 
fishermen, riverine pastoral communities, representatives from 
communities affected by Tarbela, people displaced by the Tarbela and 
Mangla dams.  They are expecting a crowd of more than 500 people at 
the river bank.  A media group will be facilitated to capture the 
event.  For more information please contact Naseer Memon at 
memon123@hyd.paknet.com.pk

SRI LANKA

Environmental Foundation Ltd. (EFL)
The Campaign Division of EFL would like to organize the following 
activities in Sri Lanka on the 14th of March 2001, to mark Anti Dam 
Day:
? To Issue a press release
? To organize a banner campaign
? To organize a discussion panel
For more information please contact Priya Monagurusamy at priya@ef.is.lk

---SOUTH EAST ASIA---

PHILIPPINES

Upland Development Institute, Inc
They are actively engaged in opposing the Bakun Hydro Project in the 
Northern Philippines.  This project proposes to do lots of tunneling 
and would greatly affect the upland communities along the process. 
For more information please contact Philian Weygan at 
philian@mozcom.com

The Cordillera Peoples Alliance with its partners in Pangasinan and 
in Itogon,Benguet will have the following activitiies for the 
International Day of Action:
1)March 8-11,2001 A Photo Exhibit about the San Roque Dam
2)March 12,2001 A Forum sponsored by Movement against San Roque Dam 
and all Megadams (MASRDAM) and the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) 
there will be a discussion on issues and updates about the San Roque 
Dam.
  3)March13,2001 Launching Congress of TIMMAWA (Peasant Alliance to 
Free the Agno)
For more information, contact Joan Carling at cpa11@skyinet.net or 
cpa-pic@mozcom.com

INDONESIA

Yayasan Tanah Merdeka
They plan to organize a campaign to refuse Lore Lindu hydroelectric 
dam.  For more information please contact Yusriwaty at 
hinoe@palu.wasantara.net.id

JAPAN

Sagami River Camp-in Symposium
They are planning two actions:
1) An investigation in insects in the Sagami river aound the 
Sagami-ozeki dam on March, 10.  Insects in the river are the 
indicator of the river health. They investigate every year before the 
dam started running. Over 60 kinds of endangered insects are found 
near the dam. Over 10,000 indivisual /m2 of acatic insects were found 
in the river. But there is only "the world of death" after the dam 
gates were closed in 1998. They are now claiming "Open the gates and 
let the river run". The biodiversity needs the stream.
2) A kayak trip down the Sagami river, to enjoy the river, March, 11. 
The Sagami river runs through Kanagawa prefecture; near Tokyo, in 
Japan.
For more information, contact Ken-ichi Kanao at ken-ichi.kanao@nifty.ne.jp.

---EUROPE---

SPAIN

Ecologistas en Accion
On Sunday March 11th 2001 on the occasion of the International Day of 
Action Against Dams, ecologist organizations and other organizations 
which are against the National Hydrologic Plan will have a 
demonstration in Madrid.  For more information please contact 
Ecologistas en Accion at ecologistas@nodo50.org

UNITED KINGDOM

UK Rivers Network
In Newbury, England, the results of a 3-year study of how polluted 
run-off from highways affects rivers were announced at a national 
conference by Dr Neil Ward of Surrey University.  For more 
information please contact Chris Woodford at info@ukrivers.net

Ilisu Dam Campaign and Friends of the Earth
They will be organising an event against the Ilisu dam in southeast 
Turkey. They'll be presenting a new report based on a fact-finding 
mission to the Ilisu area to Balfour Beatty, the UK company that 
wants to build the dam, and holding a peaceful protest outside their 
offices in London. The Ilisu Dam Campaign is also urging its 
supporters all over the country to take action on that day, whether 
just writing a letter, or holding a local rally.  For more info, 
contact Kate Geary at ilisu@gn.apc.org.

NETHERLANDS

A direct action is being planned.


---LATIN AMERICA---

COSTA RICA

LA MESA NACIONAL INDIGENA
They are struggling against the Boruca hydroelectric project that 
affects at least six communities, including 50% of Costa Rica's 
indigenous territories.  For more information please contact Donald 
Rojas at mesanicr@sol.racsa.co.cr

ARGENTINA

Fundacion PROTEGER, Coordinacion Argentina, & Coalicion Rios Vivos
They are planning an event in support of the International Day of 
Action.  For more information please contact Jorge Cappato at 
jcproteg@satlink.com


---NORTH AMERICA---

USA

International Rivers Network, Ecology Center, & Partners in Responsible Tourism
We are planning on holding a panel discussion on the UC Berkeley 
campus with several speakers focusing on both local and international 
water issues.  The international focus will be on the campaign to 
stop the Bujagali dam in Uganda.  For more information please contact 
Gila Neta at gila@irn.org

Glen Canyon Action Network
They are doing a six-city tour promoting the Day of Action in 
conjunction with a host of organizations, March 5-14, culminating 
with a major ACTION in LA. The Tour's water truck will deliver fresh 
water to the endangered vaquita porpoises in the Gulf of California, 
and to the endangered species of the Colorado River delta. This 
rolling water tank also symbolizes the hundreds of millions of 
similar-sized tanks of water wasted by municipal and agricultural 
water agencies; water that never reaches the Colorado's dry and dying 
delta, and estuary. They will stop at the headquarters of the major 
water abusers in the seven-state Basin and ask them to institute 
conservation programs and "Giveback Less than 1%" of their total 
allocation to restore the Colorado Delta.  For more information 
please contact Owen Lammers at owen@drainit.org

Hartnell College
They are planning a poetry reading.  For more information please 
contact Maria Tabor at riversparent@hotmail.com

The Thames Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited and the Connecticut/Rhode Island
Coastal Fly Fishers will be showing a 20 minute video on successful 
dam removal projects around the country.  They are promoting the 
return to free flowing rivers in the Thames River Watershed.  They 
are proposing that the Taftville Dam on the Shetucket River and the 
Tunnel Dam on the Quinebaug River be removed and the new land 
uncovered behind them be made into community parks.These dams are 
owned by Connecticut Light &Power (CL&P).  They are planning to 
upgrade the electric generating plants and install fish ladders on 
these dams. The two dams are very old and have well exceeded their 50 
year life span. They constitute a potential flood hazard should they 
fail and they serve as a major obstacle for migrating fish.  For more 
info, contact Ron Whiteley at Rnwhiteley@aol.com.

CANADA

Consumers for Responsible Energy
They are working with the Pimicikamak Cree Nation in calling 
governments and a corporation to honour its promises to the people 
and land effected by hydroelectric development that took place in the 
70s and is being lived, felt today. They are planning actions 
regarding the Day of Action, suggestions have been to have a 
information session and a hydro-fast in solidarity with a 
marginalized community the southern/rich consumers do not understand. 
For more information please contact Robin Neustaeter at 
robinneustaeter@hotmail.com

Sentinelles Petitcodiac Riverkeeper
Representatives from all 12 communities in their 3000 km2 watershed 
(Mi'kmag, Acadian, English) will gather on the Petitcodiac River to 
call on the Provincial Government of New Brunswick and the Federal 
Government of Canada to restore full tidal flow to the Petitcodiac 
River by replacing the causeway by a partial bridge. Since 1968, the 
causeway-dam across the Petitcodiac has decimated at least 7 species 
of fish from ther river system, has virtually eliminated the natural 
wonder of the tidal bore and has created one of the worst siltation 
problems in Canada (35 kms of downstream siltation, visible from 
space). The Petitcodiac River is believed to be the most documented 
case of a dying ecosystem in Canada (over 120 reports and studies in 
40 years).  For more information, contact Daniel LeBlanc at 
prkeeper@nbnet.nb.ca or visit www.petitcodiac.org.

DAM-RESERVOIR WORKING GROUP, OPIRG (Ottawa, Ontario)
They are planning an Info-display: 1) Peer-reviewed/documented 
impacts of too much water
abstraction, whether dams, diversions, reservoirs or whatever 
monkeywrenches the water cycle. 2) Video showing of "Suicide @ Cross 
Lake" concerning plight of Manitoba's Cree "Flood Bands". 
They will focus on how excess development threatens world's 
fisheries, fishers, indigenous and indigent communities, as well as 
jeapordizing World's oxygen, food, arable land supplies and social 
stability.  And they will promote solutions to the problem.  They 
will focus on Manitoba dams, Three Gorges and Narmada/SSP along with 
California's and Russia's.  For more info, contact Dianne Murray at 
dianne@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca

--
Gila Neta
International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94703  USA
tel: (510)848-1155
fax: (510)848-1008
http://www.irn.org

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