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.
Can you be up a tree and out of your tree at the same tme?
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http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2006/05/joan-baez-in-tree-to-help-save-garden.html
Now, where's my chainsaw?
Buy the land or move out.
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.
I've never wanted to start a forest fire until today.
It would appear as if Miss Baez has a problem with the concept of private property.Except,I'll bet,when it comes to *her* private property.
"I'd like to see how she handles going to the bathroom in front of all the reporters... "
- This shouldn't be a problem, since I expect that Joanie called the press, climbed the tree just before they arrived and climbed down again right after they packed their cameras away and left.
"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."
Hundreds of farmers on 14 acres? They must give each "farmer" a flower pot, one seed and a teaspoon.
Farmers my butt. Hippies growing herbs, most likely.
"I'd like to see how she handles going to the bathroom in front of all the reporters... "
Joan hasn't had a bowell movement in over 30 years. Why else would she be so full of it?
What a hilarious self-parody. From the hippie world "peace" crusade of the crazy '60s, to saving a lump of wood. A fitting metaphor for the "Blowing in the Wind" crowd.
If only she had gone climbed a tree 40 years ago we'd all have been spared a whole bunch of crap.
One of those little community gardens where each person gets a 10' x 20' plot. I did it one year when I lived in a city. Usually it's little scraps of land that the city owns, not big enough to build on but big enough to let a few people grow some tomatoes. I think it's unusual for this much land to be designated for community gardens. I wonder why Miss Baez couldn't pitch in the other $6 million herself?
This old 'HAG' has always been up a tree..
The real story is: the owner gave the land to the city of LA throught Eminent Domain,when the city didn't nothing to develop the land the orginal owner bought it back from the city.
The people who live around this plot of land saw it was just sitting,and started to grow veggies and stuff.
I've always wanted to be a doyenne. How do you get to be a doyenne?
No more calls. We have a winner. Very talented lady but crazy as a johnnyhouse rat.
Why doesn't she just buy the land from the city and save it for her hippie friends to farm?
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