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Singer Joan Baez up a tree in protest
AFP ^ | Wed May 24, 2006

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: aginghippies; barkingmoonbat; hippies; joanbaez; liberalmonkeys; losangeles; nutinatree
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To: Larry Lucido
How do you get to be a doyenne?

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.

21 posted on 05/25/2006 6:07:18 AM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil....." Eric Scmidt, CEO Google)
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To: presidio9

12 GA, 3" Magnums in #4 shot should do nicely......


22 posted on 05/25/2006 6:07:39 AM PDT by Feckless (En Temps)
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To: Larry Lucido

I think you have to wear lace and tie your hair in a bun.


23 posted on 05/25/2006 6:08:24 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: presidio9

OK, whose hounds did this?


24 posted on 05/25/2006 6:08:58 AM PDT by The Red Zone
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To: presidio9

This makes sense to me. Her views and lousy songs have been driving us up a tree for years :D


25 posted on 05/25/2006 6:10:46 AM PDT by ssaftler (Politically Correct isn't! Progressives aren't!)
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To: marshmallow

How many trees must Joan Baez sit in
Before she has gone to the squirrels?


26 posted on 05/25/2006 6:11:26 AM PDT by The Red Zone
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To: presidio9

 

Kumbaya.

27 posted on 05/25/2006 6:12:44 AM PDT by Fintan (Okay, sometimes I don't read all the articles.)
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To: Larry Lucido
"I've always wanted to be a doyenne. How do you get to be a doyenne?"

There's a lengthy and rigorous accreditation process, some of which can be waived in lieu of an internship with either of the clintons.

28 posted on 05/25/2006 6:13:04 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Fintan
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29 posted on 05/25/2006 6:16:19 AM PDT by rahbert
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To: AppyPappy

So many times talent seems to come at the expense of sanity. Tennessee Williams and old Babs Streisand comes to mind.


30 posted on 05/25/2006 6:18:22 AM PDT by doberville
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To: joeystoy
Hundreds Millions of farmers could face evictions....

Women and children affected most.

31 posted on 05/25/2006 6:27:08 AM PDT by catpuppy
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To: presidio9

32 posted on 05/25/2006 6:37:39 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
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To: presidio9

Somebody get an axe.


33 posted on 05/25/2006 6:41:07 AM PDT by Dreagon
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To: presidio9

Joan, baby, make like a tree and leave.


34 posted on 05/25/2006 6:45:06 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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To: Dreagon

who axed u?


35 posted on 05/25/2006 6:45:47 AM PDT by The Red Zone
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To: presidio9

Maybe FREEPERS should occupy a tree in Joan Baez's property and ask her to donate her land to some leftist troll group?


36 posted on 05/25/2006 6:48:25 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: presidio9

Can someone take her ladder away and leave her there?


37 posted on 05/25/2006 6:50:47 AM PDT by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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To: doberville

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.


38 posted on 05/25/2006 7:17:25 AM PDT by rmgatto
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To: joeystoy
Hundreds of farmers on 14 acres? They must give each "farmer" a flower pot, one seed and a teaspoon.

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.

39 posted on 05/25/2006 7:22:18 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: ConservativeMind
I'd like to see how she handles going to the bathroom in front of all the reporters...

I would bet her "droppings" are large.

Dude, what's wrong with you?
40 posted on 05/25/2006 7:31:27 AM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive
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