"Eagle Rock: Where land
use planning is a contact sport"
THE EAGLE ROCK ASSOCIATION
July
3, 2003
"Thanks for the TERA weekly update. I am continually amazed
by the level of professionalism and technical detail your group is able to
provide
to your ever-increasing constituency. What an asset to a community
buried in the LA bureaucratic shuffle. I've only seen such vigor and
intelligence
in Larchmont and Brentwood in LA, and even they don't compare.
Keep up the fine work -- while frustrating --
very rewarding for the betterment of the community."
-- Tom Eidem, noted economic development advisor, San Clemente
In
this issue:
1. TERA WELCOMES NEW PRESIDENT, HILARY NORTON OROZCO
2. TERA BOARD ELECTION BALLOTS HAVE BEEN SENT
3. THE COFFEE TABLE, SOON TO COME TO EAGLE ROCK, VOTED BEST
COFFEEHOUSE IN LA!
4. REACH OUR COMMUNITY KIDS (ROCK) NEEDS YOUR HELP
5. WHITHER THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL? LAUSD RELEASES
PRELIMINARY REPORT
6. LISTEN TO KPCC'S STORY ON THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM'S RARE WAX
RECORDINGS
7. MT. WASHINGTON GROUP DECRIES NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL CERTIFICATION
PROCEDURE
8. "GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE TENORS" AT OXY--JULY 10
9. MONSTERS, ORGIES AND DIVINITY AT HIGHLAND PARK'S AVENUE 50
STUDIO--JULY 11
10. CHRISTMAS IN JULY: NORTHEAST HOLIDAY PARADE PLANNING
MEETING--JULY 16
11. FREE ICE CREAM AND MUSIC AT MOUNT WASHINGTON SUMMER FUN
MEETING--JULY 20
12. LETTERS AND E.MAILS
13. QUOTE OF THE WEEK
1. TERA WELCOMES NEW PRESIDENT, HILARY NORTON
OROZCO
I would like to introduce all our readers to TERA's new president,
Hilary Norton Orozco. Hilary formerly served as TERA's vice president and
has been a TERA board member for several years. She is a good friend and
one of TERA's and Eagle Rock's strongest champions. Hilary has extensive
experience in Los Angeles City Hall and Eagle Rock issues, and she has good
ties to both the Eagle Rock residential and business communities. I leave
TERA's leadership in very good hands.
Please join me in welcoming Hilary, and please support her in her endeavors on
TERA's behalf. Thank you all.
-- Joanne Turner
2. TERA BOARD ELECTION BALLOTS ON THE WAY
The TERA Board election ballots should arrive at TERA members¹ homes this week.
Please mark your ballot and return it to TERA in the enclosed
self-addressed envelope.
All ballots must be postmarked by Thursday, July 10, 2003.
3. THE COFFEE TABLE, SOON TO COME TO
EAGLE ROCK, VOTED BEST COFFEEHOUSE IN LA!
Readers of LA Alternative Press voted The Coffee Table in Silver
Lake as the best coffeehouse in Los Angeles! Eagle Rock is fortunate to
have been chosen as the second location for owners Mike and Brett's wonderful
eatery and coffee hang. We are VERY excited and look forward to the grand
opening in a couple of months. Listen to what the critics say:
"Most flavorful coffee in town." -- Zagat Survey
"Coolest of the cool cafes." -- Travel & Leisure Magazine
"A mean blended mocha." -- Conde Nast City Source
Work on the former Williamson Auto Supply site at 1958 Colorado Boulevard is
progressing nicely, and the beautiful Deco-era building officially has been
declared a cultural historic landmark by the City of Los Angeles! The
signs are up, the plaster revealing the original brick walls is quickly coming
down, windows and the huge double-hung door with concrete counterweights (an
entire wall -- extremely cool!) are being lovingly restored, vintage lights and
skylights added, and more! The front room facing Colorado Boulevard with
the lift-up wall will be affectionately known as "The Eagle Rock
Room," and it will include historic photos of our beloved town.
We'd like to acknowledge TERA member Paul Sislin, owner of the building, who
had the foresight to approach Mike and Brett and ask that they consider opening
a second location for The Coffee Table in his building. Thank you, Paul,
and to Mike and Brett, for saying yes.
Mike and Brett are doing a fantastic job, and they represent a new school of
local entrepreneur. Eagle Rock has long needed those with artistic vision
who take risks to turn that vision into successful and desirable businesses
that draw locals and help keep our dollars spent locally. They join not
only Paul, but also Elda and Eric Ulmer, Tricia Neal, Kim Dingle and Aude
Charles, Vic Parrino, Amelia and Camilo Gonzalez, Ron Piller, and others who
dare to think outside the box and who have done so much to improve our business
district. (Fred Eric and his wife Debra just had their first baby, so his
Airstream Diner project on Eagle Rock Boulevard will have to wait a bit -- but
it's coming.) Thank you all for your faith in and love for Eagle Rock.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner at The Coffee Table will be served seven days a
week, and hours will be late, so there will be even more choices for nightlife
right here in town. We will soon have yet another reason not to venture
out to surrounding cities and to keep our money right here where it belongs!
Old Pasadena is just that . . . old.
We'll keep you posted on the opening date.
4. REACH OUR COMMUNITY KIDS (ROCK) NEEDS YOUR
HELP
The youth of our community and the ROCK (Reach Our Community Kids) Teen
Center need your help!
Although many community organizations, businesses, churches, and individuals
have given faithfully to support ROCK over the past three years, we are faced
with a financial crisis that may close our doors this month. As the result of
increasing costs and continual monthly operating deficits, we find that we must
raise $7,500 immediately to ensure that the ROCK Teen Center stays open to the youth
of our community.
If you are familiar with the ROCK Teen Center, you probably know that in the
summer of 2000, the late Vince Grater, a long-term Eagle Rock resident, donated
the building which the ROCK Teen Center now occupies to serve as a sanctuary
for the at-risk youth of Northeast Los Angeles. With this miracle, what was
once a dream for a few visionary local residents became a reality.
Since August 2000, when the gift was received, as many as five hundred
people have served to turn a building into a place where youth may feel safe
and comfortable, where they are actively and productively engaged in the
after-school hours, and where they may find people who care and listen with
their hearts. Staff and volunteers have built programming and made opportunities
for each young life whom we've served.
Today, the ROCK Teen Center offers, free of charge, a place for teens to
recreate and relax, receive tutoring and homework help, have access to
computers, develop job skills and financial literacy, and be rewarded to be the
best they can be. Their young lives have been touched through leadership
and service-learning programs, mentoring to college-bound and troubled youth,
and they have been given a place for creative outlet and expression. Over
six hundred youth have been served in the twenty-seven months since we opened
and many, who in the beginning were graduating high school, have returned to
volunteer and serve those youth who have followed them into ROCK.
Please, won't you help us continue to serve the teens of our community?
Send your tax deductible gift to ROCK, PO Box 41-735, Los Angeles, CA
90041 or make a MasterCard or VISA credit/debit card donation by telephone at
323-257-6102. And, please stop by the teen center at 1597 Yosemite Drive,
to see how your generous donations are reaching our community kids!
Donna Robey-Sullivan
Reach Our Community Kids/ROCK Teen Center
PO Box 41-735/1597 Yosemite Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90041
323-257-6102
http://www.rockids.org
5. WHITHER THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL? LAUSD
RELEASES PRELIMINARY REPORT
From our friends at The Los Angeles Conservancy:
The L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD) has now released its Draft
Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the possible demolition of the
historic Ambassador Hotel. This document outlines five possible
alternatives for the Ambassador site, ranging from complete demolition to
"maximum reuse". With the future of the Ambassador very much in
doubt, the
Los Angeles Conservancy needs your help: you can demonstrate overwhelming
public support for preservation and reuse of the hotel by attending the
upcoming public hearing on the project July 12th, by writing a response
letter to the EIR, and more.
1) Please Attend the Public Hearing
July 12th!
On Saturday, July 12th, 10:00 a.m. at Virgil Middle School, 152 N. Vermont
Ave. (Vermont at 1st St.) LAUSD will hold the public hearing on the EIR --
providing the public's major opportunity to speak on the proposed options
for the Ambassador property. It's very important for you to attend, to help
show broad-based support for preservation. Also, please help spread the
word to friends and colleagues about the hearing: we want a large crowd!
2) Write a Comment Letter Responding to the EIR
We hope you can also provide written comments on the Draft EIR, which are
due on August 1st. The document is now available on-line at
http://laschools.org/amb. The
Conservancy has begun reviewing the EIR in
great detail: overall, while the EIR purports to be an even-handed analysis
of the five alternatives, it is actually significantly "slanted"
against
rehabilitation.
To assist you and others in identifying these issues and biases, we have
prepared a preliminary set of detailed EIR comments that you are welcome to
draw upon (see Attachment #1 -- Ambassador EIR Comment Points). For more
general information on the status of the Ambassador project and the
Conservancy's overall vision for reuse of the hotel, we are also attaching a
more conceptual summary article (see Attachment #2 -- Ambassador Summary
Article June 2003). Also, you may be interested in this week's LA Weekly
article on the Ambassador situation,
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/32/news-blume.php
While much has been made of the cost differential between the "maximum
reuse" and new construction alternatives, the Conservancy believes these
cost differences have been significantly overstated. It's also important to
realize that the major factor behind this differential is that the existing
hotel is simply 25% larger than the proposed all-new school building, giving
the District more than 160,000 square feet of additional space. The cost
estimation firm Davis Langdon Adamson has calculated that the "maximum
reuse" alternative is actually $23 per square foot cheaper than new
construction.
We hope that you will communicate that the so-called "partial
preservation"
options are simply unacceptable. One option would demolish everything except
the Cocoanut Grove while somehow reconstructing the Embassy Ballroom after
demolition; the other would demolish all but the north tower of the hotel
(demolishing two-thirds of the main building as well as all other site
features). These alternatives would leave only fragments of the hotel,
dishonoring the unique history of the site, just as, directly across the
street from the Ambassador, the once-famed Brown Derby restaurant hat now
sits perched ridiculously and meaninglessly atop a two-story mini-mall.
3) Contribute to the Ambassador Memories Book
The Conservancy is continuing to collect personal accounts about the
Ambassador for an "Ambassador Memories Book." If the Ambassador Hotel
holds
a special place in your heart, send us your own fond remembrances of the
role it played in your life -- whether special celebrations you held there,
nights at the Cocoanut Grove, political events or celebrity encounters.
We'll be compiling the results into a special collection for LAUSD
decision makers.
4) Have Your Organization Join the Ambassador Coalition
Please ask any groups you're associated with to become part of the
"Coalition to Save the Ambassador Hotel" -- the growing list of
community
organizations that support reuse of the hotel rather than demolition. If
your group supports preservation of the Ambassador, just send us an e-mail
back with your organization name, contact person, address, phone and e-mail.
5) Check www.laconservancy.org and
E-mail the School Board
On our web site, you can now e-mail your support for the Ambassador's
preservation to all Board of Education members -- with one click of a
button.
Thank you for your interest and support on this important issue. We hope to
see you on the 12th!
6. LISTEN TO KPCC'S STORY ON THE SOUTHWEST
MUSEUM'S RARE WAX RECORDINGS
A treasure trove of historical sound has been unearthed and restored, and the
general public had the pleasure to enjoy these late 19th and early 20th century
recordings. For the past twelve years, Mark Ulano, a professional movie
soundman, Dan Reed, a historian, and Michael Khanchalian, a wax cylinder
restorer and dentist, have devoted their time to restoring recordings from wax
cylinders of Native American and early Spanish folk songs. Kitty Felde at KPCC 'Talk
of the City' spoke with Mark Ulano and Michael Khanchalian about the
project and listened to a piece of California history.
Old Spanish Songs and other Recordings, an illustrated lecture with
visual and audio playback, was held at the Southwest Museum, 234 Museum Drive,
on Saturday, June 28.
To listen to Monday's KPCC broadcast, go to:
http://www.kpcc.org/programming/talkofthecity/listings/2003/06/totc_20
030623.shtml
7. MT. WASHINGTON GROUP DECRIES NEIGHBORHOOD
COUNCIL CERTIFICATION PROCEDURE
From Denise Weinstock of the Mount Washington Neighborhood Group:
Mount Washington Neighborhood Group
Decries Unfair City of Los Angeles
Neighborhood Council Certification Procedure
The Formation Committee for the independent Mount Washington
Neighborhood Council announced today that if the City of Los Angeles
Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (Department) issues an
authorization to the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council to proceed to
elections, the Formation Committee will have no choice but to pursue
a friendly court action to clarify the City's authority over forming
neighborhood councils. "We have hundreds people who have signed
petitions and posted yard signs calling for the removal of our Mount
Washington neighborhood from the ill-conceived multi-neighborhood
Arroyo Seco organization. It appears that the Department is poised to
force our unwilling stakeholders into the Arroyo Seco," observed
Susanne Brody of the Formation Committee. "We think a court would
share our concerns about the fundamental unfairness of the City's
process," she said.
The controversy over the City's recognition of the Arroyo Seco
organization under the provisions of the voter-adopted City Charter,
implementing Plan and ordinance stems from an informal policy of the
City commission responsible for officially certifying neighborhood
councils. The Board of Neighborhood Commissioners (BONC) has
developed a practice of requiring some proposed neighborhood councils
to modify their bylaws as a condition of receiving official City
recognition. One would think that these BONC-proposed changes of the
governing rules of a neighborhood council would return to
stakeholders of the forming councils for review and concurrence
before final certification by the City. Not so. The Commission
recently has empowered the persons who submit the original
application for certification, the "Contact Persons," to speak for
and commit stakeholders to changes of their organizational bylaws.
The case of the Arroyo Seco certification hearing was perhaps the
most bizarre in the City. BONC called a single Contact Person to the
microphone. Under the City's ordinance, Contact Persons act as an
official communication link between the City and the forming
neighborhood council but have no other authority. The Commissioners
asked this Contact Person if he thought the Arroyo Seco would agree
to eight changes to the organizational bylaws. As hundreds of people
in the hearing audience verbally objected, the Contact Person agreed
to the changes. BONC, in a split vote, adopted a motion that
purported to certify the Arroyo Seco group based upon the "consent"
of one Contact Person to amend the bylaws of the organization.
BONC Commissioner Ronald Stone observed that night it did not seem to
be a good idea to certify a neighborhood council that has more
opponents in the hearing room than supporters. Commissioner Stone's
observations were valid as 300 of the 400 persons at the hearing
opposed Arroyo Seco's certification.
Following the controversial certification hearing, City Department
staff instructed Arroyo Seco leaders to write the bylaws amendments
and to not take "actions without consulting stakeholders." When the
BONC-proposed changes were ready for stakeholder review, the
Department paid for a 1,200 piece mailing of stakeholder meeting
notices and for a parliamentarian to run the meeting. At that April
26th stakeholder meeting, the proposed bylaw amendments failed to
garner a 2/3 majority vote to amend the Arroyo Seco bylaws. A motion
was also passed requiring the Contact Persons to send a letter
informing BONC that the stakeholders had rejected the BONC-proposed
bylaw amendments.
A week later, the Contact Persons for the Arroyo Seco submitted a
letter that reported the vote at the stakeholder meeting. But they
asked the Department to ignore the parliamentarian's ruling that the
bylaws amendment failed. Instead they submitted their bylaws and
asked the Department to administratively approve them enabling
movement toward elections.
Ignoring its previous instruction to Arroyo Seco to "consult the
stakeholders you represent," on May 8th the Department issued a
letter that declared that Arroyo Seco was certified as of last
October when the Contact Person verbally agreed to the changes to the
bylaws. And despite the Department's previous investment of taxpayer
funds to hold the April 26th stakeholder meeting, the letter of the
Department also declared it was "unnecessary" to return to
stakeholders for concurrence in the bylaws changes agreed to by the
Contact Person.
"The events surrounding the attempted certification of the Arroyo
Seco, which forces us into a bigger, weaker council, violates the
very spirit of neighborhood empowerment set forth in the City
Charter," said Denise Weinstock, a member of the Formation Committee.
"One of the BONC changes was to modify the number of seats on the
board of directors of the Arroyo Seco group. Are you telling me that
the City's process of certification includes the right to
unilaterally change the power structure of a neighborhood council -
all without asking the stakeholders? It makes no sense."
The Department is now reviewing the bylaws turned down by Arroyo Seco
stakeholders to determine if they nonetheless conform with the BONC
suggestions. An oral report on the "progress" of Arroyo Seco
Neighborhood Council is scheduled at a meeting of BONC on July 1st in
the Northridge area.
For further information:
Denise Weinstock (323) 227-1177
8. "GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE TENORS"
AT OXY--JULY 10
OCCIDENTAL CHILDREN'S THEATER
TO LAUNCH SEVENTH SUMMER SEASON JULY 10
The critically acclaimed Occidental College Children's Theater will present
"Goldilocks and the Three Tenors," an original tale, plus three
unique adaptions of traditional folktales for a seven-week outdoor run starting
July 10. Performances will be in the Remsen Bird Hillside Theater on the Occidental
campus.
In about an hour, a cast of six Occidental students, alumni and professional
actors will perform without props, sets, or costumes, relying only on their
acting and physical skills. "This dynamic company of talent actors ... is
as fresh and entertaining as ever," the Los Angeles Times says.
Beginning July 10, "Goldilocks and the Three Tenors" will be
performed outdoors in the Hillside Theater every Thursday, Friday and Saturday
at 10 a.m. through Aug. 23. All seats are shaded from the sun. Tickets are $8
for
adults and $5 for children ages 12 and under. Group rates are available.
For ticket information, call the Occidental Box Office at (323) 259-2922.
As is the case every year, the script for "Goldilocks and the Three
Tenors" will be entirely the result of cast improvisation, said Jamie
Angell, the theater's artistic director since its inception.
"We work in the round, so the audience is right on top of the
action," Angell said. "The unconventional material and the absence of
props or costumes force both the actors and the audience to rely on their
imaginations. It's remarkably different from most anything else you see in
children's theater today."
Occidental College is located at 1600 Campus Road in the Eagle Rock section of
Los Angeles. For a campus map and directions to the college, please visit
www.oxy.edu/oxy/welcome/directions.
Located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, 116-year-old Occidental
College is a selective, nationally ranked college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Its 1,800-member student body combines diversity with academic excellence,
having won three Rhodes scholarships and scores of other national awards over
the past 10 years.
Contact: Andy Faught (323) 259-2534 or afaught@oxy.edu
9. MONSTERS, ORGIES
AND DIVINITY AT HIGHLAND PARK'S AVENUE 50 STUDIO--JULY 11
From Highland Park's Avenue 50 Studio:
Friday, July 11,
2003
7:00 to 11:00 pm
The Avenue 50 Studio
131 No. Avenue 50
Highland Park, CA 90042
From July 7, 2003 through July 31,
the Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park will be filled with a peculiar series of
paintings, drawings and sculpture. Drawing from contemporary,
popular and traditional cultures, three emerging artists, Arturo Romo, Carolin
Hager and Sean Paul will be exhibiting diverse work that, through various paths
of investigation, penetrates mind, body and spirit.
German artist, Carolin Hager creates sensuous paintings and small 3-dimensional
works which seem to breath with their own life and fragility. L.A. artist,
Arturo Romo draws from occidental religion and popular Mestizo traditions to
produce intensely dreamlike drawings, paintings and sculpture. Salt Lake
City artist, Sean Paul uses sexuality as an entry point for his paintings,
depicting organisms in flux and arousal.
The Avenue 50 Studio unites Hager, Romo and Paul in a tri-cultural meshing of
mind, body and soul, providing these artists with the forum to craft their
trans-cultural investigations.
"Penetration² runs from July 7, 2003 through July 31, 2003 and is free to
the public. Studio hours: Tuesday through Thursday 10-12 noon, Saturday
and Sunday 10-4 p.m.
Sponsored in part by the California Arts Council
Info: (323) 258-1435
email: ave50studio@msn.com
10. CHRISTMAS IN JULY: NORTHEAST HOLIDAY
PARADE PLANNING MEETING--JULY 16
From Misty Iwatsu, chairperson of the 2003 Northeast Holiday Parade comes
word of early preparations for this year's Northeast LA holiday celebration:
Attend the first organizing meeting
for the
NORTHEAST HOLIDAY PARADE
July 16, 2003
5:00-7:00 pm
Faith United Presbyterian Church
115 N. Ave 53
Parade preparations are all ready under way for this year's Northeast Los
Angeles Holiday Parade, the second oldest parade in Los Angeles. We need
Committee Chairs, Committee Vice-Chairs, organizing volunteers, Parade
day volunteers, sponsorship, and donations. We need just about anything
we can get!
Please attend our first organizing meeting at Faith United Presbyterian Church,
which is at corner of North Figueroa and Avenue 53.
This year's parade date will starts at 11:00 am on December 7. The parade
begins at North Figueroa and Ave 60 and ends at Sycamore Grove Park.
Hope to see you at the meeting. Please tell all your friends and
relatives! We need all the volunteers we can get.
Misty Iwatsu
2003 Chair, Northeast Holiday Parade
323-255-5030
Fax 323-257-1036
11. FREE ICE CREAM AND MUSIC AT MOUNT WASHINGTON
SUMMER FUN MEETING--JULY 20
Free Ice Cream, Music and Entertainment!
Mount Washington Association's Annual
"Summer Fun Meeting"
Sunday, July 20, 2003
3:00-5:00 pm
at the Southwest Museum
AT THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM
Award-winning ice cream, live music from neighborhood bands, world-class
storytelling, rare and unusual soft drinks and neighborly good cheer will all
be served at The Mount Washington Association's annual "Summer Fun
Meeting" at the Southwest Museum, Sunday, July 20 from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M.
with free admission and refreshments
open to all Mount Washington residents as well as residents of neighboring
Northeast Los Angeles communities.
Community residents are invited to bring their families, construct their own
ice cream sundaes and root beer floats, and mingle with their neighbors,
elected representatives and members of the fire and police departments.
Mount Washington Association board member Grayson Cook, a noted practitioner of
the storytelling art, will lead the telling of tales. Information on
community activities and issues will be available at booths manned by a variety
of community groups.
"The Association is extending a special welcome to new Mount Washington
residents as well as to our friends and neighbors from adjoining
communities," said Carol Jacques, Mount Washington Association president.
"The summer meeting is all about having fun, getting to know each other
and making use of one of our great
community resources: the grounds of our historic and beautiful Southwest
Museum."
Ice cream and root beer connoisseurs will note that frozen treats for the event
will be the purveyed by Fosselman's Ice Cream Company, the Alhambra-based ice
cream maker that has been serving the Arroyo area since 1924. Galco's of
Highland Park, which boasts the world's largest retail selection of root beers
and other traditional soft drinks, will provide exotic soft drinks, including a
selection of rare, premium root beers.
Community groups are invited to participate by manning a booth at the event.
(Organizations wishing to take part may call Natalie Seaman, Mount Washington
Association activities chair, at 323-223-0996).
12. LETTERS AND E-MAIL
"I really appreciate getting the TERA
e-letter. I enjoy the diverse issues that are addressed and the forum that is
provided. The frequency of the letter is just right as well. Cheers
to you and TERA."
--Chuck Arnold,
Project Analyst
Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority
"Yesterday I happened to be in Tustin and saw a Walgreens which had been
an old gas station. It is at First Street and Newport Avenue. I had to wait for
the signal so had a good chance to look at it. They kept the character of the
gas station. It is a small Walgreens compared to most. Just thought you
might like to know."
--Peggy Lenney,
Los Angeles
EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks, Peggy, for reporting of yet another instance
where Walgreens has apparently made an effort to maintain the character of an
existing structure to house one of their retail establishments. As
most TERA e.letter readers know, Walgreens demonstrated a good deal less sensitivity
to our community when they brazenly ignored local land use laws in their design
for a proposed Eagle Rock branch of the drug store chain. And, until the
company decides that Eagle Rock is at least as deserving of its consideration
as Tustin, TERA continues to call on community members to boycott Walgreens
when and if it ever opens in our town.
13. QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That
whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such
form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness."
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
and
other signers of
America's
Declaration of Independence, 1776
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