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Emilia Translating Poem
Whats that smell? Petroleum
Why's the river unhappy? Since the strangers came?
Covered in Mud + Petroleum.
I Remember the juice, when even the Heron was clean, no change of color?

43 years
The 4 rivers=environmental disaster declared
even w/ that nothing has been done to clean it up. As a result communities continue to swim + drink directly from these rivers.

How to explain to a child that it's not his/her fault that they can't swim in it, nor their parents, so when a child asks-the reality is such a great magnitude that you end up just saying [[crossed out]] don't mention it.

Radio activities enforce the ideas that the environment and rivers must be saved - a variety of methods, video clips (using rhythms - ours and not ours/raps) documentaries illustration books, etc.  If Kakuma ever cease to exist, we can still show what we've done.  
-2 indigenous communities nearby are in danger of extinction
- one was declared extinct [[crossed out]] 65 yrs. ago - since then they've found 8 families of this group (Umarano)- Urituyaku river .  If nothing is done, lang could be gone in 3 yrs.  Last year 3 massive oil spills (15,000 liters of oil) in Umurano zone.
From our station we're trying to
Umugua lang 4 people left - youngest is 79 yrs. at one point was one of largest groups in the amazon.  Since Spanish conquests thousands & thousands died out, also @ rubber boom, many slaves were taken (lower amazonas river)

Transcription Notes:
& not + - crossed out needs to be completed Under the sentence "If Kakuma ever cease to exist" is [[crossed out]] umaina (sr?) = language