Rebuffeted
Still, he said Buffet seemed unfazed by the small contingent of tribal members and fishermen who made the trip to Omaha to protest.
“[Buffet] gave lame answers that were evasive,” Tucker said. “That guy owns so much stuff. … These dams are nothing but a grain of sand on the beach for him. [Saturday] that grain of sand was a giant boulder.”
Georgiana Myers, a Yurok tribal member who unfurled a banner while Hillman spoke that read, “Klamath Dams Equal Cultural Genocide,” said on Monday from her home in Weitchpec that she went to Omaha to make her voice heard. An unlikely activist, the 24-year-old elementary school teacher felt that women of her generation had yet to be represented at an important event like the shareholders’ meeting.
“It’s not that we’re against Warren Buffet,” she said. “It was about educating his shareholders. As long as there’s not business as usual on the Klamath River, there’ won’t be business as usual for Berkshire Hathaway.”
The Karuk Tribe and Klamath Riverkeeper have set up a website to educate Berkshire Hathaway shareholders about the Klamath River: berkshireshareholders.com.
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Railroad!
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