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[nosmokes]

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L.A. South Central Farm Receives 3-Day Eviction Notice

Los Angeles South Central Farm Receives 3-Day Eviction Notice
Immediate Action Required to Save Model for Post-Peak Sustainability in
Cities
By Michael C. Ruppert


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March 3, 2006 1130 PST (FTW) - In L.A.'s Havana Experiment
<http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/020806_havana_experiment_summary.shtml FTW told you the dramatic and compelling story of what 350 families have
done over a 13-year period with a 14 acre plot of land in a depressed inner
city. They are feeding themselves with organically grown and healthy produce
that requires zero fossil-fuel inputs and requires virtually no transportation
expense. This is being done on soil that was once paved, covered, depleted and
ignored. More than anything else, this is the one area of effort most
essential for America?s (and the world's) major cities to pursue as Peak Oil
takes its first deadly bites.


Two days ago the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department unceremoniously
posted an eviction notice on the farm's gate calling for the farm to be
vacated by March 6th (next Monday). That would leave current crops in the
ground to be plowed under by a developer's bulldozers. The intended
replacement for the farm is a warehouse intended to serve (primarily)
Wal-Mart.
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[rman]

1. kick for Post-Peak Sustainability

"healthy produce that requires zero fossil-fuel inputs and requires virtually no transportation
expense"

It only makes sense, but big corporations can't make a buck off of it, hence the obstructions to efforts such as this one in LA.


However, converting 14 acres of city surface to farm land for every 350 families, won't get nearly the population density of cities today. In and of itself not a bad thing but it means many people will be displaced, which can be a problem - especially if mechanized transportation is very expensive.

[sasha031]

2. this is so sad

I thought Villarraigosa was suppose to be one of the good guys. Politicians and corporations are so blind. The sense of community this project must of made, from what I read about it, the place was a dump before and look what the people have done, and now to be robbed so a walmart warehouse can be installed.