Green Peace v Nasca, Peru
On Friday night, after an hours long meeting, the International Executive Director of Green Peace, Kumi Naidoo's stunningly handsome face appeared just beyond the guarded gate of the tall iron fence that fronts the court house ("fiscalia" in Spanish) of the province of Nasca, Peru, and he was smiling.
Mr. Naidoo arrived in Nasca earlier for a scheduled meeting with the Nasca magistrate to resolve a Green Peace problem.
A small band of orderly protestors were becoming restless and one man and a woman yelled out for "justice" while several protesters held their hastily penned protest signs high above their heads. A single four door white pick up truck waited just outside the gate to exfiltrate Mr. Naidoo. Four armed police escorted Mr. Naidoo into the truck while the protestors closed in and two or three beat and kicked the truck. Several of the protesters jumped into the bed of the truck as it sped off down the dimly lit street.
Recently, trespassing Green Peace activists marched through and possibly damaged the protected archeology site, the Nasca Lines. Some jeered while others cheered the unfurling a big yellow sign boldly proclaiming "TIME FOR CHANGE" "GREEN PEACE" placed adjacent to one of the ancient Nasca line drawings from the distant past. This was photographed by the Green Peace activists from an aircraft and distributed to news services worldwide.
Tonight, in Nasca, a small group of activists for the conservation of the past and an activist for conservation of the future came together for a brief moment in the present and I was there.
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