Actress Q’orianka Kilcher arrested at the White House

Actress Q’orianka Kilcher was arrested Tuesday during a political protest in Washington, D.C. (June 1)

The 20year-old human rights and environmental activist reportedly tied herself to a fence at the White House while her mother Saskia poured a thick black substance over her (poured black paint on her to signify oil).

The actress is protesting the visit of Peru’s president Alan Garcia. The police charge Q’orianka with disorderly conduct while her mother is charged with defacing government property.

Also according Boston Globe, Q'orianka Kilcher was a solid supporter of "Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, who has been accused of fueling protests against foreign investment in which more than 30 people died."

Q'orianka is best known for her role as Pocahontas in the 2005 film The New World.


[Photo courtesy by Jason Merritt/Getty Images; video: nbcwashington]

Signos: Banta ng Nagbabagong Klima (Signs: Threat of Climate Change)

Global warming is a worldwide problem. The devastating effect is a millions times higher than a terrorist attack. This environmental crisis puts the lives of millions at risk.

To spread the worldwide (environment) awareness, Philippines particularly GMA's Public Affairs presents Signos (Fatal Signs), Philippine television’s first full-length documentary on what is considered the most pressing environmental issue today.

Signos: Banta ng Nagbabagong Klima (Signs: Threat of Climate Change) is airing tonight after Ful Haus on GMA Channel 7 in the Philippines ( Sunday April 20, 2008).
Narrated by advocate, Richard Gutierrez.

Award-winning journalists, Howie Severino, Maki Pulido and Raffy Tima travel to different parts of the country to prove that the impact of climate change reaches far beyond the glaciers of the Polar Regions. Severino visits Bicol, where a 150-meter fault line and intensifying typhoons threaten to bury towns with landslides. Pulido discovers a town in La Union that has dwindled to more than half of its original size. In El Nido, Palawan, Tima ventures underwater to investigate a phenomenon called coral bleaching.

To provide the most in-depth report, Signos brings together scientists from local and international institutions, including Filipino NASA Senior Research Scientist and Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Josefino Comiso, and experts from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Marine Science Institute, Greenpeace, and World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), and other climate change experts. Signos brings Filipino viewers a comprehensive look on climate change, its causes, effects, and the measures that must be taken to prevent its disastrous consequences.

Visit the SIGNOS blog.