Bonnie Raitt, John Densmore, John Trudell rally for Protection of Ancient Forest (tags)
Celebrities and environmentalists meet at Pershing Square to bring attention to the threats to world's remaining oldgrowth forests. Music event is joined by 2000 demonstrators marching for the U'wa tribe of Columbia, a tribe of 5000 who have threated mass suicide (by jumping from a cliff) if U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum starts drilling for oil on their ancestral lands.