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Posted on 05/25/2006 5:32:44 AM PDT by presidio9
Veteran US protest singer Joan Baez moved into a tree in Los Angeles along with famed tree-sitter Julie "Butterfly" Hill to prevent a local garden from being sold and destroyed.
Baez, 65, doyenne of the 1960s folk music and protest movement, joined other protesters in hopes of saving the 14 acre (5.7 hectare) piece of land which has been tended as a community garden by about 350 urban farmers since the early 1990s.
She is being accompanied in the garden tree-sit by Hill, 32, who spent over two years from 1997 to 1999 in the branches of a 600 year old northern California redwood to prevent it from being cut down.
The garden, in the South Los Angeles neighborhood, is on land that the city leased until 2003 to the Los Angeles City Food Bank, which supports several such community projects.
The city sold the land to a developer in 2003, however, and efforts by a public land trust to raise millions of dollars to buy it and keep it in public hands failed to meet a Monday deadline.
Place a doylie flat on a tablee and smear with cayenne. You will have your doyenne, and if Joanie is there, a traitor as well.
12 GA, 3" Magnums in #4 shot should do nicely......
I think you have to wear lace and tie your hair in a bun.
OK, whose hounds did this?
This makes sense to me. Her views and lousy songs have been driving us up a tree for years :D
How many trees must Joan Baez sit in
Before she has gone to the squirrels?
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There's a lengthy and rigorous accreditation process, some of which can be waived in lieu of an internship with either of the clintons.
So many times talent seems to come at the expense of sanity. Tennessee Williams and old Babs Streisand comes to mind.
Women and children affected most.
Somebody get an axe.
Joan, baby, make like a tree and leave.
who axed u?
Maybe FREEPERS should occupy a tree in Joan Baez's property and ask her to donate her land to some leftist troll group?
Can someone take her ladder away and leave her there?
Baez in her prime had a voice of stunning power and clarity. Hearing her music in person remains one of my best musical memories. But that voice of incomparable worth was trapped in a personality that Al Capp captured best as "Joanie Phony". Million dollar talent, ten peso brain.
That's about a 40' x 40' plot per each "farmer". That's not bad for a backyard garden, but hardly a farm. However, I expect that they're doing it as a collective and sharing the produce.
Oh well, the 60s is over, and hippies don't get to appropriate property just cuz they grew a few tomatoes there. But I'm OK with this as long as it keeps the hippies in the city and out of the country.
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