{"article":{"id":165358,"heading":"Navajo says evictions of farmers from urban farm sends a message","author":"Indian Country Today (repost)","created":"2006-06-20 10:45:05","modified":"2013-11-11 00:41:09","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:41:09","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Navajo says evictions of farmers from urban farm sends a message <br>  <br> &copy; Indian Country Today June 19, 2006. All Rights Reserved <br>  <br> Posted: June 19, 2006 <br>  <br> by: Brenda Norrell \/ Indian Country Today <br>  <br><br>  <br>  <br><br>  <br>  <br> LOS ANGELES - Indigenous and others who have been growing food in downtown Los Angeles' South Central Farm for a decade, faced off with sheriff's deputies as they were evicted to make room for a warehouse. Actress Daryl Hannah and others climbed into a walnut tree or chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels and were arrested. <br><br> Klee Benally, Navajo from Arizona, was at South Central Farm and said the creation of this oasis - an urban garden - and the arrests and evictions should send a signal to Indian country and the nation. <br><br> ''The South Central Farm is an environmental and cultural oasis in the midst of Los Angeles. Many of the farmers who have been cultivating the fields that I met there are indigenous peoples from Central America,'' Benally told Indian Country Today. <br><br> ''For years prayers have been offered on this land; there were visible altars and many herbs for healing. I offered my prayers as well.''..... <br><br>  <br>  <br> READ FULL ARTICLE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiancountry.com\/content.cfm?id=1096413162\">http:\/\/www.indiancountry.com\/content.cfm?id=1096413162<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.indiancountry.com\/content.cfm?id=1096413162","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"&quot; Klee Benally, Navajo from Arizona, was at South Central Farm and said the creation of this oasis - an urban garden - and the arrests and evictions should send a signal to Indian country and the nation. &quot;","numcomment":13,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2006\/06\/4dfeartherwh.jpg","filesize":"18.0 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2006\/06\/165358.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2006\/06\/4dfeartherwh.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2006\/06\/4dfeartherwh.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2006\/06\/4dfeartherwh.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":165605,"heading":"the comments??","article":"search:\r\nhidden : author&quot;canat&quot;","author":"canat","parent_id":165358,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-06-22 02:59:16","modified":"2006-06-22 02:59:16","fileurl":""},{"id":165783,"heading":"off topic","article":"I read the &quot;hidden&quot; comments and they were &quot;off-topic&quot; and had nothing to do with the story or the theme of the story.  ","author":"hidden comment reader","parent_id":165358,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-06-23 14:47:17","modified":"2006-06-23 14:47:17","fileurl":""},{"id":165784,"heading":"o","article":"The &quot;hidden&quot; comments were just like bible spam.","author":"hidden comment reader","parent_id":165358,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-06-23 14:48:45","modified":"2006-06-23 14:48:45","fileurl":""},{"id":165786,"heading":"Just wondering","article":"How  do you access the hidden comments?  Didn't realize that was possible....","author":"hidden comments","parent_id":165358,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-06-23 14:52:34","modified":"2006-06-23 14:52:34","fileurl":""},{"id":165821,"heading":"yes..","article":"enter author seach: canat\r\nstatus search: hidden...\r\n\r\nmany entries regarding opposing views from \r\nothers that attempt to \r\npoint out glaring discrepencies in the so-called\r\n&quot;news from the &quot;streets&quot;&quot;\r\nthat are actually \r\npropaganda pieces end up there...\r\n\r\nespecially entries questioning \r\nthe racist exploitation of Natives by...\r\nsee for yourself.","author":"canat","parent_id":165358,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-06-23 17:34:08","modified":"2006-06-23 17:34:08","fileurl":""},{"id":165900,"heading":"Hey Canat","article":"How're things around the FORT?! old buddy...","author":"Not Uncle Tomahawk","parent_id":165358,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-06-24 06:33:54","modified":"2006-06-24 06:33:54","fileurl":""}]}