Save The Farm
Great Power is a Blunt Object have posted the story of a 14-acre farm "smack dab in the middle of the ghetto that feeds 350 families is under attack by a developer who wants to eradicate it and replace it with a warehouse." This farm was donated to the community after the 1992 riots.
He's asking that people help by making donations. I've found this film about the farm.
2 comments:
Fantastic! Thanks for spreading the word. It's a great story, isn't it? I just hope it has a happy ending on July 12th.
Thanks also for finding the video and posting it; it's a good one, and I haven't seen it. It shows you the real militarism of America. Seriously, our police work for private interests. Sure, they are government employees, but look whose interests they're protecting. Certainly not those of We The People. This asshole Horowitz came through and struck a filthy deal with the filthy mayor, and now he's going to plunk a filthy warehouse on top of the farm. And when the people refused to leave, the city stepped in on behalf of corporate fundamentalism. They sent in a ton of brainwashed apes, all with the mental and emotional maturity of a five-year-old, and armed with an infinite number of weapons, to forcibly peel those poor farmers off the stinking concrete. But that wasn't enough. You have to fuck with people in every way imaginable. You have to make them go to court, you have to put the "infraction" or whatever on their permanent record, you have to destroy their consumer credit, and so on.
It's ugly and it's sad. The neigborhood will suffer greatly for it: gang violence will increase, hunger will increase, pollution will increase, this list goes on forever. And dammit, this type of injustice happens everywhere, all the time. It doesn't matter whether you are Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Libertarian, it just doesn't matter. One's ideologies cannot and will not end the most enduring fact of human history: that powerful, stupid, and emotionless people will always plant the proverbial boot on the proverbial face of civilization, now and forevermore. And there is little doubt in my mind that our allegedly "objective" legal system will fail these miserable sods. That's why it's so important to raise a truckload of money and buy the land.
You know all this stuff, but I just needed to rant a bit with someone who understands. Keep up the great work on your blog, it really makes a difference, despite my bitchy pessimism. And thanks again for introducing me and the rest of your readers to current.tv. I'm always looking for new embeddable video sources.
Thanks to you for finding the story Musclemouth. I was completely unaware of it until you posted about it on your site.
And I notice that Anything They Say has also done a story about it.
It just shows that this does make a difference in getting stories out there and making people aware of what's going on.
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