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| After decades of
ongoing pollution because of the way handling the dangerous materials
in Ramat Hovav dumps. The El-Azazme beduin tribe, located near the dumps
suffer from high rates of miscarriages and cancer. Date: 8/2000 |
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About
the festival
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| Burning
soil is the name of the festival that took place at Ramat Hovav. 500 Jewish
and beduin held at night torches along the 1.4 Kilometer outline of the
man saying "STOP"!. The figure is located between the beduin
tribe and the Ramat Hovav dumps. This act came as a protest of the environment exploitation and pollution the inhabitants are subjected to. |
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| Talking with the El-Azazme beduin tribe about doing the happening. |
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| The first step (1): Emilio is showing the beduin children of El-Azazme the path to walk on. |
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| The first step (2): Emilio and the beduin children of El-Azazme marking the figure outline. |
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| The first step (3): More walking - 1.4 Kilometer to go. |
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| The man outline is finished. A photo from a near hill (left), from a light airplane (middle), outline closeup (right) |
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| second step: People start walking to take a position on the figure outline. |
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| second step: Few minutes after, 500 Beduim and Juhic, children and old people ran along the path holding burning torches. A picture taken fron a light airplane |
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| Third step : Everybody is in place, holding a torch, making the 1.4 Kilometer outline of the burning man. |