*Friday- 9:30am

City Council meeting at City Hall.....meet up at City

Hall @ 9:30am, meeting starts @ 10am We've been

making a very big statement at city hill, we need 150+

people there tomorrow. Power in numbers...

*Saturday- 2pm-5pm (meet up at 1pm)

Parade at Venice Beach boardwalk, and its gonna have

some flavor so don’t miss this.

*Sunday- 9am-10pm

The farmers market will be going off with food, music,

arts activities, etc....

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*SATURDAY-

SOUTH CENTRAL FARM PARADE!!!

The Friends of the Farm invite you to a PARADE to

raise awareness about the struggle to save the South

Central Farm. The parade will be led by the campesinas

and campesinos and we are inviting supporters and

organizations to join us for a lively afternoon of

family fun on the Venice boardwalk in solidarity with

the South Central Farmers.

Come dressed as your favorite fruit, vegetable, or

flower or wear green. Bring sunscreen, umbrellas, and

water, whistles, noisemakers, tambourines, etc.

When and Where:

This Saturday, June 24th.

Well be gathering at 1pm in the parking lot of the

Venice Abbot Kinney Memorial Library, 501 S. Venice

Blvd., Venice, CA 90291.

Well begin the parade at 2pm walking down S. Venice

Blvd toward the Boardwalk.

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*SUNDAY-

Please join us this Sunday for our weekly South

Central Farmer's Market! We will be on the north side

on the Farm (ON THE STREET) on MLK, between Long Beach

& Alameda.

After the farmer's market, a benefit concert will take

place (artist to be announced.)

That's right...whether we're on inside of the Farm or

on the outside, we will not be stopped! Our traditions

will continue! Please come out to the Farm and show

your support for the South Central Farmers!!!!!

LA LUCHA SIGUE!!!

What's going on with the land that Tony offered?

The land that the city is offering the south central farmers is under the high voltage power lines. It has been determined that it is not healthy to put the farmers there. There known linkages to cancer in women, children, and other diseases cause by high power lines. That is why they do not put houses under them.

It is adding insult to put people there. Additionally, 3 acres of that type of land only is able to service 30 families. Therefore, it is bread crumbs.

Why doesn't he offer 20 acres in ascot park?

That is a better question.

You have to spend years of constant exposure under those power lines for them to do damage. Anyway, living in LA, the air is going to kill you before the power lines.

You have to remember that society runs on money, if you don't have the money you have to make do. When you can accept your economic power and how to use it, then you can be strategize and strengthen it.

It's like the militants that call for an armed struggle, but can't tell you how they plan to feed 10,000 people three times a day, every day for as long as a war would take. If they can't do that, they wouldn't even be able to move the waste that 10,000 people would produce in one day . . .

Take what you can and start from there.

Its gone...Move on and stop dwelling on it.

You can not take back, what was not yours in the first place. What kind of crazy logic is that??

ATTENTION: ALL MEXICAN SQUATTERS - Head for the Hannah ranch in the Rockies... begin farming NOW!

She's waiting with open arms.

Pact Aims to Help Mexicans Living in Rural Parts of United States

U.S.-Mexico partnership expected to help eligible Mexicans buy homes

By Eric Green
Washington File Staff Writer

Washington -- Eligible Mexicans in the United States will have access to U.S. rural development programs under a new partnership agreement signed by the U.S. and Mexican governments.

The agreement, announced May 13 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), expands access to the U.S. programs to underserved communities in need, especially the Hispanic community, in the United States.

Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns, who signed the agreement for the United States, said his agency "looks forward to continuing to work with Mexican authorities to enhance outreach to the Mexican community." He added that expanding access to USDA programs, especially to the Hispanic community, is a priority for the Bush administration.

Among its attractions, the U.S. rural development programs will provide loans and grants to eligible Mexicans (those in the United States legally) to purchase a home. Luis Derbez, Mexico's foreign affairs secretary, who signed the agreement for his country, said the U.S. programs contribute to the "enhanced well-being of eligible Mexicans who would otherwise not be able to own a home or improve their living conditions."

The USDA said the agreement is a component of its initiative to provide outreach to a wide range of immigrant communities, senior citizens, and the working poor. The agreement specifies that the Mexican embassy and Mexican consulates in the United States will distribute information on USDA rural development programs, including program eligibility criteria and the benefits of rural development programs.

In addition, the United States and Mexico plan to collaborate on community-based activities and events benefiting Mexican-Americans, Mexican nationals working within the United States, and migrant communities situated in U.S.-Mexican border and rural areas and in many metropolitan areas throughout the United States.

The USDA programs promote economic development in rural areas by offering support for water and sewer systems, housing, health clinics, emergency service facilities, and electric and telephone service.

The programs also support loans to businesses through banks and community-managed lending pools, and offer technical assistance and information to help agricultural and other cooperatives get started and improve the effectiveness of their member services.

President Bush says that while more and more people own homes in the United States, fewer than half of all Hispanics in the country are homeowners. At an October 2002 White House conference on minority home ownership, the president set a 2010 goal of increasing the number of minority homeowners in the United States by at least 5.5 million families.