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Subject: [GPCA-MediaComm] FINAL ADVISORY: Green Party joins Joan Baez,
Daryl Hannah, others at LA's urban farm encampment
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:25:02 -0700
From: civillib@xxxxxxxxx
To: gpca-mediawg@xxxxxxxxxxxx
News Advisory
THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA www.cagreens.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, May 26, 2006
Contact: Sara Amir, spokesperson 310.270-7106 saraamir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Pat Driscoll, spokesperson 916.320-6430 patp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Susan King, spokesperson 415.823-5524 funking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cres Vellucci, GPCA press secretary 916.996-9170
California Greens join celebrities, tree-sitters
in ‘solidarity' with South Central LA farmers
trying to save nation's largest urban farm
LOS ANGELES (May 26, 2006) – Scores of Greens – including a Green Party
candidate for Congress and a former Santa Monica mayor – have joined
thousands of people who have built an encampment and formed a growing
resistance movement here to save the largest urban farm in the U.S.
Among threats of eviction and arrests, people – including
environmentalist Julia "Butterfly" Hill – are "tree-sitting" and have
put up a "tent city" for supporters. Hundreds of people – including
celebrities Joan Baez, actresses Daryl Hannah and Laura Dern, and slide
guitar ace Ben Harper – have gathered at the farm to demand
environmental justice for the farmers.
A land developer is planning to evict 360 Latino and indigenous families
from the 14-acre plot at Alameda and 41st streets in South Central Los
Angeles, which has allowed them to supplement their incomes with healthy
crops of fruits, vegetables and medicinal plants
"We are putting out a call to Green Party members and others across the
state and nation, to come to Los Angeles and stand in solidarity with
the farmers against a developer and city government who refuse to save
this community farm. If they evict and jail them, they'll have to evict
and jail us too," said Michael Feinstein, former Santa Monica mayor.
"The Green Party demands that developers not be allowed to dictate to
the government of the people and for the people. This is not the
government of and for the dollar. We are not going to let this farm be
destroyed," said Green Party congressional candidate Byron DeLear, (28th
CD, Los Angeles/San Fernando) , one of many Greens who has camped out
overnight at the site. He said the city should use the power of "eminent
domain to protect this national treasure."
"I am appalled that instead of ensuring that people are able to subsist,
the City of Los Angeles is selling out the people to build on a property
already financed by the taxpayers," said Donna Warren, a native of South
Central and candidate for Lt. Governor in June on the Green Party ticket.
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