Willie Nelson, Darryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Joan Baez, Julia Butterfly-Hill support farmers in the struggle to save the nation's largest urban farm. Darryl Hannah appears on Larry King Live with Willie Nelson to show footage of eviction. Danny Glover calls eviction a Day of Mourning, a Day of Shame.
As of 5 am Tuesday morning, the altar was joined by forty nonviolent protestors locking together around the base of the tree because LA Sheriffs, firefighters, and LAPD had converged to evict the farmers and protesters who were now considered trespassers. ...
Full report:
South Central Farm Crisis in Los Angeles
by Jane Ayers | | All the Farm Stories: Farm Stories by JohnK || Why Horowitz did Not Sell the Farm to the SCFs by B || Bulldozing the Farm by blame the system || COP WATCH REPORT: stand-off with LAPD and Sheriff's on Alameda and 41st || Horowitz Unleashes Sheriff by francisco mendez
Messages
From the Occupation by The Occupants of the SCF (posted by Lesile)
Testimonies of police violence during the raid:
AUDIO: Interview with Sam Sanchez, defender of the farm | | VIDEO: Resisting Eviction, a farmer tells her story