They come in (green) peace
What could be so compelling that Tim Blair said of it, “That is the most beautiful thing I’ve read in years?”
Hundreds of loggers and angry residents have surrounded eight Greenpeace members who tried to leave an Amazon town with a scorched tree trunk for an exhibit on global warming, the environmental group said Wednesday.
The activists are holed up in the makeshift headquarters of the federal environmental agency in the town of Castelo dos Sonhos, Greenpeace campaigner Andre Muggiati said. They are being protected by police and army soldiers.
Sometimes, raising awareness! can be a dangerous business. Ironically enough, removing lumber from the area is tightly controlled and doing so without permission is illegal; an anti-deforestation law that Greenpeace - which had federal approval to remove the tree - was no doubt integral in getting passed.