Golden Gate Park is Under Attack

(San Francisco) -- Golden Gate Park, considered by many Americans to be a national treasure, is under attack by the very people who pretend to be revitalizing it, the Friends of Rec and Parks, Warren Hellman and the de Young Museum.

The deYoung Museum Board of Trustees, along with the Directors of the Fine Arts Museums launched a media campaign declaring a final court victory with the lifting of a preliminary injunction against garage construction on March 25, 2004. The corporate media doesn't question their self-serving misinformation. However, the real court decision is to be issued within two weeks.

A wreckless decision was issued by the Court of Appeals on March 25, based on assurances that no irreversible damage would befall the Music Concourse area. It is clear that Hellman's group is used to lying and getting their way. They have literally taken the Music Concourse, and no one at City Hall seems to care that they are destroying priceless cultural history.

This is a public park. And the corporate interests behind the garage and the deYoung could be stopped in their tracks with a court ruling within two short weeks.

The March 12th preliminary injunction was issued based on the likelihood that the project will be found in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and Prop J, 1998.

Meanwhile, Hellman's contractor, Swinerton Builders, keep demolishing history that belongs to the public. Garage backers perpetrated a fraud on the voters and the court and now they expect the public to just let them have the park. See what they have done.