Viva la tigressa!
-SKK
At 4:37 PM -0400 20/10/2000, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>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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