[news] Thousands Mobilize in Los Angeles to Block the Total Destruction of the South Central Farm

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**"Why Are You Helping to Rip Up the Food for Children and Poor People?" Ask Protesters**

By Margarita Salazar | The Other Journalism | June 14, 2006

Three bulldozers kicked up an enormous cloud of dust as they began to destroy the corn, flowers, medicinal plants, vegetables, fruits and some of the 600 trees that have been cultivated for more than 14 years with dedication, love and hard work by the farmers – most of them Mexican immigrants – at a huge community garden known as the South Central Farm.

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