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Sawgrass Rebellion: Property rights the focus of rally Saturday, October 19, 2002 By ERIC STAATS, emstaats@naplesnews.com After three weeks on the road, farmers and ranchers from as far away as Oregon and Ohio pulled into Collier County on Friday for a peaceful rally for private property rights. Local property rights advocates met the cross-country caravan about 10 a.m. in the Publix parking lot at Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard. From there, a 40-vehicle convoy headed to the rally — dubbed the Sawgrass Rebellion — in the front yard of a remote Golden Gate Estates home on 18th Avenue Southeast. People...

This is a true fairytale.Once Upon a Time.... in an area in the Grand Americas known as "The Great Northern Growlands" lived the Earth Keepers.The Earth Keepers were a very peaceful people who worked hard and were good stewards of the land that God had given them. Although the work was hard, there was much love, joy and prosperity in The Growlands. The children played and the yearly harvests were abundant. The Earth Keepers’ farmers grew food to feed their people and the Earth Keepers’ lumberjacks chopped wood to make toys for their children and houses for their families.Not only...

From: Kehn Gibson (Reporter with Klamath Falls Herald and News) Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:26 PM Subject: North from New Mexico (On the Sawgrass Caravan) Hey Folks, A crisp sunlight greeted us this morning as we pulled out of a small motel about 10 miles north of Albuquerque. We will head northwest on a small highway recommended by a local truck driver that will take us into the southeast corner of Utah. Highway 550 winds up through a valley connected to the Rio Grande River. Ancient pueblos squat on rimrock mesas high above the valley floor, where cattle graze...

Sawgrass Rebellion: Property rights the focus of rally Saturday, October 19, 2002By ERIC STAATS, emstaats@naplesnews.com After three weeks on the road, farmers and ranchers from as far away as Oregon and Ohio pulled into Collier County on Friday for a peaceful rally for private property rights.Local property rights advocates met the cross-country caravan about 10 a.m. in the Public parking lot at Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard. From there, a 40-vehicle convoy headed to the rally — dubbed the Sawgrass Rebellion — in the front yard of a remote Golden Gate Estates home on 18th Avenue Southeast. People came...

Just talkied to the convoy via land line. The energy level is vary high. They are on the way to Fort Meyers and have recieved word that the Lt. Governer is going to make a speech. Their may be a surprise in store. Roll on - roll on. God speed!!!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sawgrass Rebellion protesters arrive in state capital Thursday, October 17, 2002 By MICHAEL PELTIER, mpeltier1234@comcast.net TALLAHASSEE — Property rights advocates brought their "Bucket Brigade" to the state capitol Wednesday, the latest stop in a cross-country protest that travels to Naples today or Friday. Two weeks after leaving their homes in Klamath Falls, Ore, road-weary members of the Sawgrass Rebellion brought their message and symbols to Tallahassee to protest state and federal efforts to restore portions of the Florida Everglades by flooding lands now containing homes or used for agriculture. They were joined by an Ohio farmer who likewise traveled...

I was there today in Saginaw, Texas to meet the Klamath Falls convoy to the Sawgrass Rebellion. Rocky (Issaquahking), Bill Ramson and others whom I had come to know last year in Klamath Falls, Oregon were there with the convoy. There was a great parade. I rode with the bucket (from Klamath Bucket Brigade) for a while and the shovel (from Jarbidge Shovel Brigade) for a while, but mostly walked along side engaging the people watching the parade and asking them to come to the fair to hear the speeches or look up the events on the internet (Klamath Falls...

Has anybody heard what king of a weapon the "War Wagon" is carrying? It is supposedly right behind the "shovel".

RENO, Nev -- Western ranchers and farmers who have clashed with the government over fish protection are leading a new call to arms, heading to Florida with a giant shovel and bucket in tow. The cross-country convoy by the Klamath Bucket Brigade of Klamath Falls, Ore., and the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade of Elko, Nev., is meant to rally support for the cause the groups share with Florida farmers: property rights. All three groups say the government is trampling their rights in order to protect endangered species. "We want to spread the message about how property rights are being assaulted...

Collier County property rights advocates knew they had to do something. A convoy dubbed the Sawgrass Rebellion had set out for Naples, all the way from Oregon and Ohio, in a show of unity against Everglades restoration and a new Collier County growth plan. Plans to cap the road show with a big, celebrity-studded rally had fizzled. Into the breach stepped the Property Rights Action Committee. The group announced Friday that it plans to throw a block party Oct. 18 in Golden Gate Estates to welcome like-minded farmers and ranchers from the West and Midwest. The committee applied for a...

Sawgrass Rebellion rekindled Despite roadblocks, organizers expect event to 'succeed beyond our dreams' Posted: October 4, 20025:12 p.m. Eastern By Henry Lamb © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Rural people know you can't put out a grassfire by stomping on it, and, according to organizers of the Sawgrass Rebellion, property-rights abusers are about to learn that you can't quell a rebellion by stomping on it. As WorldNetDaily reported Thursday, the long-planned national demonstrations in support of south Florida residents losing their homes because of controversial federal and state environmental projects were canceled earlier this week due to organizers' inability to obtain the needed government...

Citizens Against Forced Annexation (CAFA) is fighting for residents of unincorporated areas bordering Fort Worth, as well as other cities in Texas. Forced annexation, increased taxes, and restrictive zoning and development restrictions are all being proposed for rural residents, without any committment to provide city services. But Fort Worth area citizens are not the only Americans being deprived of property rights by government organizations. In Klamath Falls, Oregon, a federal judge ordered irrigation water to be turned off for 1400 farm families, to protect a supposedly endangered sucker fish. In southeast Florida, the U.S. Corps of Engineers is systematically flooding...

A long-planned October rally in Collier Country, Florida calling itself the "Sawgrass Rebellion" to support property rights, imploded and was cancelled in the face of a determined effort to deny it the right to meet anywhere. You could almost hear the cheering in the offices of the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, the Army Corp of Engineers, the Fish and Wild Life Service and the National Park Service. Will the juggernaut of environmental organizations and federal government agencies that have mounted an attack on the most fundamental right of an American citizen, the right to own property, succeed? If it...

To All FReepers, Greetings, We are putting on an event (land rights rally) in support of the Sawgrass Rebellion in Beckley, West Virginia on October 6th (next Sunday). This event will be visited by the Darby Convoy that will leave from Ohio on/about October 1st. If you would like more information on what the Sawgrass Rebellion is about, go to www.sawgrassrebellion.org. We need you all to come to the rally (see below). If you can, please donate shovels or buckets to be auctioned off at the main event in Florida. If you can't make it, you can still participate by...

<p>Ranchers and farmers battling the government over fish protection in Oregon and Nevada said they're taking a page out of the environmentalists'book, trying to rally public support for their property rights cause with a cross-country convoy.</p> <p>The Klamath Bucket Brigade of Klamath Falls, Ore., and the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade of Elko, Nev., left Oregon on Saturday for a 3,000-mile, 22-day drive to Florida. Sporting a 13-foot silver bucket and a 30-foot green-and-yellow shovel, they intend to raise money and support for Florida farmers.</p>

There are a few things that need to be stated to those in the land rights or Sawgrass caucus of FR: Please do not berate the owner of the forum or moderators. If FR chooses not to support Sawgrass, accept it and move on, even if you think it unfair or incredible. We need more coming together not breaking apart here and elsewhere. Anyone who talks about violence or guns is an clueless moron idiot. Get the hell away from us, we want nothing to do with you. There are 2 types of people, the useful and the useless. We're...

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We're just six days and counting to the Sawgrass Rebellion Convoy merging from all points north, south and west before they head east and rally in Sacramento. Events of the last few days suggest a little humor may be in order. But read between the lines and ask... how have we lost so much ground, and why have we allowed government to trash our Constitution and the Bill of Rights therein. What meaning should be attributed to: "No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use...

PRESS RELEASE Homestead Land and Water Alliance will be hosting the kick-off rally for the Sawgrass Rebellion in Tracy on September 29, 2002 in the Commuter Parking Lot between I-205 and the West Valley Mall between 3 and 5 PM. The Sawgrass Rebellion is a convoy crossing 23 states, raising funds to help people in Florida and the Klamath Basin. Both areas have been devastated. The Klamath area had water withheld from farmers in the name of saving a fish--the National Academy of Science said the action was unnecessary. The Florida area has been flooded repeatedly since the Army...

In 1989, by passing The Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act, the United States Congress authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to build or modify fifty-two water management projects in South Florida, all aimed at improving the Everglades’ environmental functioning. One small part of this gigantic, multibillion-dollar scheme (which now includes sixty-nine projects) was construction of the Modified Water Delivery System (Mod Waters) and the C-111 Canal on the east fringe of the Everglades near Miami. In a nutshell, the goal was to raise the water table to supply water to Everglades National Park; at the same time protecting...