The art of advocacy

Well, well, well. Thanks to Hahamongna, the Arroyo Seco, JPL, citizens of Altadena, and the City of Pasadena; my hair is turning white. For those of us who are vanity obsessed with naturally dark brown tresses… well, I may have to color my hair with beet juice. That’s beet juice. Beet juice!

POOF!

 What have we here? More video clips from the Pasadena City Council meeting of July 12, 2010? Three more people I want you to see and listen to again before the Pasadena WikiLeaks clips are made public on YouTube.

The Pasadena WikiLeaks clips (not yet publicly available) consist of an arrangement of snippets of particular city council people and former city council people saying things… well, maybe they shouldn’t have said. So many wells.  A deep subject.

Is it art? I don’t know if my snippet creations will be experienced as art. There’s no question that these videos (below) are artistic. They are filled to the brim by the fine art of advocacy.

Tim Brick addresses the Pasadena City Council on July 12, 2010. He states his qualifications modestly. He doesn’t mention that he is well-known to the City of Pasadena as Director Tim Brick, then chairman of the Metropolitan Water District, current member of it’s Executive Committee, Ex Officio; Special Committee on Bay-Delta; Water Planning and Stewardship Committee; Legislation Committee; Communications and Education Committee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUt-D3foN3I

If the City Council of the City of Pasadena doesn’t listen to this man, then… well, we are up that ____ creek without a _____ paddle. Or, maybe with a paddle.

Note: When paddled, I often piddle, so spread some newspapers under me, please.

This clip (below) is from the same meeting when two very real and natural women with brains offer testimony that is more than just useful facts and opinion.  Can the Pasadena City Council peer into this well so deep? I hope so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uus7fnRfHo

This can’t be swept under the astroturf, it’s way too crowded under there. We all better put our collective heads together before the bulldozers, video editors, dump trucks, and chainsaws get all fired up. Don’t you think?

“The Heros” speak about the Hahamongna Wetlands/Watershed

This is a clip from the portion of the Pasadena City Council Meeting, dated July 12, 2010, PUBLIC COMMENT on Item 11 of the Agenda.

The speakers waited more than THREE hours to speak. It is mind numbing what they had to sit through. Yet, these determined and wonderful advocates for the natural environment were extremely patient. Please weight their comments proportional with the amount of their inconvenience, then multiply that by 1k. That is the minimum number of hours these neighbors spent cogitating on what they were going to say….    on this long, long night (6:30pm to Midnight). Barfing and schvitzing for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_86hX0P4U

No more money spent in development on Hahamongna should be clear.

The City of Pasadena is about to take an action that will bring about an environmental charge that they have no idea nor the resources to address. The charge of  ”unconscionable negligence” under civil liability, Environmental Law is about to come into play. No statute applies herein. There seems to be plenty of documented proof that the Pasadena City Council should have established permanent protections for Hahamongna—LONG AGO.

Do I need to show you clips from the rest of this convoluted meeting that took more than 6 hours, last YEAR?

I will. I have them all nicely labeled and indexed for our viewing pleasure, on a Cloud (BTW) so, don’t think just by confiscating a computer it’ll be gone. No, no-no. I’m a TechnoGoddess. You, are out-teched.

Welcome to Pasadena WIKILEAKS! This is the torture memo.

In addition to this meeting, I might add, there are several wonderful clips of times that the City Council has discussed Hahamongna without any Agenda item or public notice whatsoever. Ew, bad form.

I have a favorite clip of a time, most recent, when the Pasadena City Council did agendize an Update To The Master Plan (I think this was supposed to be the official follow-up to the meeting of July 12, 2010). That one, is particularly interesting! Would you like to see it?

Of course, there is no drawing one could submit as a plan for Hahamongna. Nature has already drawn it.

(photo by me at the Prado Museum, Madrid, last year)