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Free the beaches
Apr. 11th, 2006 10:31 pmThere are bigger issues of course. The incredibly huge Immigrant rights protests all over the country… French workers winning against their government… College jock rapists abusing women… about a million other things. And you should be thinking about them more than what I’m going to tell you about in the next paragraph.
But there’s a local issue which is really fucked up right now. It seems like just a party issue, partly because it’s how Burning Man began. However, and this is when I know I’m a Californian, the attempt by to ban bonfires at Ocean Beach is something that we also cannot put up with. In the last decade, California beaches have gone from free and unregulated to pay-for-use and increasingly controlled. The beaches belong to us. We cannot let government take this much control of what we hold in common. Free the beaches!
Here’s where to send your letter and here’s the official solicitation of comments don’t be fooled by the reasonable and mild language, a fire ban is what, word-of-mouth-wise, seems to be going on.
( Here’s my cheesy letter-to-a-government-official )
But there’s a local issue which is really fucked up right now. It seems like just a party issue, partly because it’s how Burning Man began. However, and this is when I know I’m a Californian, the attempt by to ban bonfires at Ocean Beach is something that we also cannot put up with. In the last decade, California beaches have gone from free and unregulated to pay-for-use and increasingly controlled. The beaches belong to us. We cannot let government take this much control of what we hold in common. Free the beaches!
Here’s where to send your letter and here’s the official solicitation of comments don’t be fooled by the reasonable and mild language, a fire ban is what, word-of-mouth-wise, seems to be going on.
( Here’s my cheesy letter-to-a-government-official )
