..one can only hope for nature to take an unprecedented term of events
Posted on 05/24/2006 5:16:31 AM PDT by decimon
LOS ANGELES - Folk singer Joan Baez and tree-sitter Julia "Butterfly" Hill have taken up residence in a tree to raise awareness about a 14-acre urban farm threatened with demolition.
Hill, who lived in a redwood in Northern California for more than two years to prevent loggers from cutting it down, said Tuesday that she, Baez and others will occupy the tree in shifts.
Two door-sized platforms have been placed in the tree for the sitters, and a support group has set up an encampment on the ground.
Hundreds of farmers could face evictions after The Trust for Public Land came up $10 million short in its bid to buy the site. The nonprofit group was not able to raise the $16.35 million required by the time the purchase option expired Monday.
The trust signed a contract in April with landowner Ralph Horowitz to buy 10 of the 14 acres in south Los Angeles where about 350 families, most of them working-class immigrants from Central America, tend small plots of fruits and vegetables.
Hill said she was protesting now because Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has pledged support for the farmers but has not come through yet.
Villaraigosa's spokesman did not immediately return a message left after business hours Tuesday.
Deputy Mayor Larry Frank has said the city was trying to help the farmers move to other sites, including an 8-acre plot which can accommodate 200 of them.
she has been 'out of her tree' for years.
TIMBER!!!!!
This is gonna be a good thread.
The body odor will make this place smell like a French café.
Can't the city just take this land by eminent domain and put up some condos for the...ah... "working-class immigrants from Central America"? Heh, heh, heh. ;-)
Both of them are certified barking moonbats.
Heres hoping the idiots fall out of their trees.
Only if their name is Trumpez.
Gasp! A politician seeing higher taxable income for a property suddenly goes back on his 'word'? I hope this isn't the beginning of a trend!
..one can only hope for nature to take an unprecedented term of events
This should take care of the infestation.
http://www.scotts.com/media/media/pdf/productGuide/MSDS/Ortho/BugBGon%20MAX%20Lawn%20and%20Garden%20Insect%20Killer.pdf
Only in California do they grow their nuts in trees.
'Nuff said.
...And just what does this mean from the author? Have we started to go from illegal aliens, to immigrants, to working-class?
A drive by with a feller buncher would be fun.
"Two door-sized platforms have been placed in the tree for the sitters, and a support group has set up an encampment on the ground."
How DARE they nail a platform to a tree! Didn't they hear it crying as they drove dozens of spikes into it's "Treesoul?" What ghouls!
If they REALLY cared about trees and nature, they'd leave the tree EXACTLY as they found it, and just hang upside down off a limb for a few weeks. They've probably already scared off a few squirrels and stuff from their HOMES, too! They're Eeeeeeeevil! Eeeeeeeeeevil, I say!
I'm turning them in! Oh, that's right. We're all accountable to THEM, they're accountable to NO ONE. *Rolleyes*
A tree is the perfect place for these bird-brains.
Hehehe:)
I hope they both fall and break their necks.
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