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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: Robert Waldrop <rmwj@soonernet.com>, permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] CNN.com - High court OKs personal property seizures- Jun 23, 2005
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:20:03 -0400

Robert Waldrop wrote:

"Urban renewal" has been used for years as a way
to destroy poor and working class neighborhoods
and transfer the land use to purposes desired by
non-poor people. Here in OKC, a very nice 1950s
neighborhood was destroyed to put in a big box
store. Earlier, the historic heart of the African
American business and residential community was
destroyed in what amounted to a "due process riot"
by covetous white people who wanted the land
(close to downtown, thus potentially valuable) but
who did not want to pay market prices for the
land. So the City condemned the properties, paid
people cheap prices which were upheld by the
courts, and ethnically cleansed the area.


So what was the outcome of your fight to retain access to locally produced/slaughtered poultry for your coop?

Interested.

LL





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