http://www.hollynear.com/africa.page/current.html http://www.survival-international.org/related_material.php?id=340 http://www.rightlivelihood.org/news/event05.htm
Founded in 1980 the Right Livelihood awards are presented annually in the Swedish Parliament and are often referred to as "Alternative Nobel Prizes". They were introduced "to honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today". Jakob von Uexkull, a Swedish-German philatelic expert, sold his valuable postage stamps to provide the original endowment. Alfred Nobel wanted to honour those whose work "brought the greatest benefit to humanity". Von Uexkull felt that the Nobel prizes today ignore much work and knowledge vital for our world and future. [Jakob von Uexkull is also the acknowledged father of Biosemiotics.] December 2, 2005 Dear friends from America, We are sending you greetings and to let you know that we are still alive. I thank you for your messages about my grandmother. We are still struggling to get a permit to go and bury her but the government will not allow us to go inside the CKGR [Central Kalahari Game Reserve] to bury her. What we know from her post mortem is that she died because of dehydration and shock and her stomach was empty when she died. We are just writing to inform you that our court case has to resume next year and we are asking if you are prepared to pay for to help with some donations in which we think Survival has made a budget and forwarded to you. So we would like to know early before the case resumes because our attorney would like to know if he is going to Botswana. We think you guys know that the court case is really important in which we have seen last time with you inside the CKGR the harassment that we are getting from the government in which we think the court case is the only way of resolving our problems. We don't have any chances without you to pay for our court case. Hoping to hear from you soon, Jumanda and Roy
