Sunday, January 9, 2011

THAI YOUR URANIUM DOWN,SPORT

One of our roving reporters in the backblocks of Thailand was surprised to find an activist musician with a STOP URANIUM MINING AT JABILUKA sticker on one of his guitars .The muso and his partner run a small café up near the Laos border which is like a trip back to the 1970s, photos of Willie Nelson and James Dean on the wall.

The owner, our man says in a postcard showing a 1907 view of the Communications Minister riding an elephant across the Ping River , runs Michael Moore style campaigns against the local authorities, trying to protect the “small fish” in the café and guest house trade against the”big fish”-package tours and resort brigade. His wife provided another surprise when she produced homemade wholegrain bread for breakfast .