AVWatch: "The Revolution", starring Darryl Hannah

Posted Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Earlier today various police forces evicted dozens of farmers from a 14 acre plot of land in South (Central) Los Angeles. Those resisting the eviction included a couple tree sitters, Darryl Hannah, Joan Baez, Danny Glover, Martin Sheen, Laura Dern, Tom Morello, Willie Nelson, Alicia Silverstone, and other washed-up or semi-famous celebrities. (There were around 350 individual plantings, but apparently some farmers had already been moved to other properties).

The backstory is provided in "Farmers, Celebrities Evicted From Urban Plot". At first glance, it might seem a bit absurd:
...Personnel using a huge fire ladder this afternoon removed actress Daryl Hannah and protest organizer John Quigley from the tree where they had vowed to remain as long as possible... Television broadcasts showed a large ladder extending from a firetruck reaching into the tree where Hannah, Quigley and two other people were located... Hannah said she was sleeping in her tent when the Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies - who handle evictions in the county - arrived. Quigley alerted her to the raid, and she raced up the tree in about a minute...
What the L.A. Times - as can be expected - doesn't cover is the actual ideologies of the leaders of the "resistance". For that, let's turn to "Farmers Kicked Out of Community Farm in South-Central Los Angeles" ( narconews.com/Issue41/article1892.html ). That article contains nugget after nugget offering a clue to what they really believe, so the following are just the more revealing bits:
...Tezozomoc, a spokesperson for the farmers, said the aggression shown today would certainly unleash a strong sense of community discontent against the city government.

...The Other Journalism confirmed that below and to the left, the farmers of South-Central – adherents and members of the Other Campaign on the Other Side – have joined with their Mexican brothers and sisters south of the border.

...Indeed, opposite the high-caliber guns and police batons were guitars, drums and whistles; in front of the high-impact helmets and shields were bandanas and ski masks, Zapatista symbols that are by now imbued with anti-capitalist significance; answering the prominent acronyms of LAPD and SWAT (Los Angeles pioneered the creation of this repressive unit, which is armed to the teeth and is by definition charged with fighting "terrorists") were "Viva EZLN", "Save our Farm" and "The people united, will never be defeated!"

Rufina Juarez, one of the most tenacious defenders of the community’s land, said to the Other Journalism that the aggression they were subjected to will not be forgotten. She also had strong words of criticism for Villaraigosa, who over the course of his corporate ladder-climbing, power-hungry career has used his "origins" and "race" as political bargaining chips.

"Mexicans," she said as tears welled up in her eyes, "have a long tradition of defending our land and we aren't going to forget this aggression..."
A summary from the American perspective: due to massive illegal immigration, we've imported many people who seem to be just a tad on the "collectivist" side. Is importing people who support the EZLN really in the best interests of this country? Is helping communists build a proletariat in our best interests? While Darryl Hannah is just a loony and useful idiot "liberal", the real leaders of this movement clearly don't support our laws and the fundamental principles of this country.

For more that the L.A. Times isn't covering, see la.indymedia.org, such as la.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/162192.php:
Living on the Farm, dirty fingernails, eating just-plucked food, daily meetings, outdoor showers, and good conversation would be an easy routine to fall into. But at the South Central Farm, the pastoral life is interrupted by a steady stream of media and celebrities, and conviviality and community is built as much from the tension of impending arrest as it is by common work and values.
Peasant values are the only true values, comrade.

Comments

Henryk A. Kowalczyk (not verified)

Sat, 06/17/2006 - 19:27

Illegal immigrants should stay; bad immigration law needs to go.

The free market system should govern immigration. Please read:
http://www.henrykkowalczyk.com/immigration.htm

Regards,

Henryk A. Kowalczyk
http://www.henrykkowalczyk.com

Deborah (not verified)

Wed, 06/14/2006 - 22:04

I read this story from many "unbiased" news sources (beings that I haven't watched the news in the last two weeks, I had no idea what was going on). Then it dawns on me, they're talking about ILLEGAL ALIENS. WHAT?!?!? There was not a single mention of it. Darryl Hannah is toted as an environmentalist, who is protecting a "community farm." Again, I say WHAT!??! If this article were written in a pre-politically correct 1950's newspaper, the title would read, "Owner of Property Files Claim to Remove Trespassing Illegal Immigrants from His Land." Not once in any article, was that fact made clear. This shows what the liberal media does... they ignore the basic tenants of reporting... to report the facts. It is so slanted, you could not even glean the facts. I feel like we are in pre-holocaust Germany. Everyone around us knows what is going on. But not one person does a thing to stop it. Good bye freedom of the working legal citizen and property owner...

eh (not verified)

Wed, 06/14/2006 - 01:11

A bit from the LAT's story:

But the mayor said Horowitz then said he thought the land was worth an additional $3 million and also said he was sick of the protesters, some of whom he said had made anti-Semitic slurs against him.

Remember that every single Jew in the US Senate voted for the big amnesty they just passed, and other Jewish organizations are big supporters of "immigrant's rights".

Go figure.

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Tue, 06/13/2006 - 22:23

THIS PROPERTY IS OWNED BY AN AMERICAN,the fact is the head Mexican( villaraigose working for MEcha hate race people) in L.A. Is working for mexico city the so called farmers love mexico and its evil ideals and total corruption must be missed by hannah but villaraigose can use this act for his political future and get "his people in line", for the coming moves by rats inside our non government the hold on evil is part of the ideals of the mexico and its people and if this low life villaraigose can use it he will.

the fact is all you see now happening in L.A. Is just a test to see what non mexican will say and do, and can i ask the head pig in L.A. What Right should the mexican people have to land when in mexico no none mexican can in fact own property, can i ask if the people of mexico are so good why are people so poor in that country? if the people are so hard working why isn't mexico as rich as the USA? WHAT DO THE RATS REALLY WANT? Ask all the question you want but most mexican want what you have without working for it.