REUTERS
Thursday October 19 11:19 AM ET
Bare-Breasted Poet Takes on Loggers
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - She thinks she knows what lumberjacks want.
A California performance artist has launched what she hopes will be a new
women's movement against logging ancient redwoods -- baring her breasts and
reciting poetry to stunned timber crews.
``They stop their chainsaws and they stop their trucks and they pay
attention,''
Dona Nieto, who goes by the name ``La Tigresa,'' as she prepared another
demonstration. ``I've changed some of these guys' lives. But I'd like to
change
the laws, and I'd like to change history.''
La Tigresa has brought what she calls ``Goddess-based, nude Buddhist
guerrilla poetry'' to timber and logging sites in an area some 120 miles
north
of San Francisco that is one of the main battlegrounds in the fight between
environmentalists and timber companies.
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