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DESCRIPTION:UN-DAM THE KLAMATH BENEFIT DINNER \nA Klamath Riverkeeper event. 
 Co-sponsored by the Northcoast Environmental Center, Karuk Tribe Department 
 of Natural Resources and Humboldt Baykeeper\n\nMARCH 14    Bayside Grange 
 (outside Arcata, CA) $15-$50\n7 p.m. Dinner w/music and speakers\n9 p.m. 
 Live! Reggae Funk Jam Down\n\nTo volunteer or donate, contact Nurelle 
 Harrigan at nurelle@klamathriver.org, (201)562-7403 or call (707) 834-3358. 
  More info is at klamathriver.org\n\nWe hope you will consider supporting 
 the health of the Klamath River by buying tickets, making a contribution or 
 volunteering for the event on the 14th.  Tickets are $15-50, and available 
 through the Northcoast Environmental Center, the Works Arcata/Eureka, and 
 the Metro record store in downtown Arcata.\n\nCome enjoy a full dinner 
 accompanied by live acoustic music, and a multi-media presentation about 
 last year’s trip to Omaha.  After dinner, you will be met with tempting 
 options at a silent auction, a donation-only beer & wine bar, and the deep 
 groove of live funk and reggae music, featuring Chris Wixson & Friends 
 doing a rocking funk set and live reggae by Woven Root.\n\n All of the 
 proceeds from this event will support trips to PacifiCorp headquarters in 
 Portland, Oregon and to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway’s 
 shareholders meeting in Omaha, for stake-holders in the Klamath Crisis to 
 make their voices heard!\n\n\nWHY PORTLAND AND OMAHA? \nIn the not too 
 distant past, the Klamath River was a free-flowing river with clean water 
 and world class runs of Pacific salmon. Today, a series of dams owned and 
 operated by PacifiCorp, has decimated salmon runs and polluted the river 
 with toxic algae. PacifiCorp, is owned by corporate giant Berkshire 
 Hathaway.  Berkshire Hathaway's majority stockholder Warren Buffett, also 
 known as the Oracle of Omaha remains second richest billionaire in the 
 world.\n\nThis spring local Native Tribes, fishermen, concerned river 
 residents and local environmental groups will travel to PacifiCorp’s 
 headquarters in Portland, Oregon and Omaha, Nebraska for 
 Berkshire-Hathaway's annual shareholders meetings.  We will hold PacifiCorp 
 and Buffett accountable for their involvement in the perpetual destruction 
 of habitat, water quality and local economies and to demand the removal of 
 the Klamath dams.\n\nA LITTLE BACKGROUND ON THE MOVEMENT TO UN-DAM THE 
 KLAMATH: \nLast year a group of delegates representing Klamath River 
 stake-holders traveled to Omaha to appeal to the "philanthropist" in 
 Buffett.  Despite these attempts to invite him to be pro-active in the 
 Klamath River issues, he defied all  collaborative options, and disregarded 
 Tribes and fishermen’s attempts at dialogue.  His extreme actions led 
 Forbes magazine and other national publications to publicly question his 
 integrity in philanthropy.  \n\nWarren Buffett's and PacifiCorp’s actions 
 contradict the public perception that Buffett and his partner, Bill Gates, 
 fight poverty ad decease through their philanthropy in developing nations. 
 \n\nThis spring we will head back to Buffett's meeting, nicknamed the 
 Woodstock of Capitalism, and to PacifiCorp’s offices to let the world 
 know that one year later the Klamath is more toxic then ever, and the 
 communities that depend on it are even more prone to poverty, primarily due 
 to PacifiCorp's dams.\n\nJOIN US IN THE MOVEMENT TO UN-DAM THE KLAMATH. 
 \nFor more information on the Klamath Dams, or to donate to this springs 
 activities visit:\nklamathriver.org or email regina@klamathriver.org.  \nTo 
 help with this event contact nurelle@klamathriver.org, (201)562-7403 or 
 call (707) 834-3358.  \n\n\n\nRegina Chichizola\nKlamath Riverkeeper \nP.O 
 Box 21\nOrleans, CA 95556\n530 627-3280\n\nIn Oregon \nP.O. Box 
 897\nAshland, OR 97520\n541 951-0126\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/18/18479978.php
SUMMARY:Un-Dam the Klamath River Benefit Dinner
LOCATION:Bayside Grange (outside Arcata, CA)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/18/18479978.php
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