Los Angeles on Tactical Alert to prepare for tomorrow’s United for Immigration Reform March and Rally … Stay off the streets tonight & tom’r unless you are marching! Could be trouble brewing for anti-protest rioters and white supremacist groups who’ve already been rioting this month in LA …

We hear from friends … police stations are calling in extra help to sleep inside police stations tonight in preparation for riots against the United for Immigration Reform March and Rally tomorrow. Rally participants will begin arriving as early as 6 a.m. to the assembly area located on Broadway between 11th Street and Olympic Boulevard.

According to the LAPD website the surrounding areas will be afffected: Cesar Chavez Avenue to the north, Alameda Street to the east, Pico Boulevard to the south and Hoover Street to the west. The United for Immigration Reform March and Rally will take place Saturday, May 1, 2010. Depending on the crowd size, the assembly area could expand north to 9th Street and include Olympic Boulevard between Hill Street and Main Street.

Road closures will begin at 5:45 a.m. The march is scheduled to begin at 11a.m. Depending on crowd size, streets along the route may reopen as early as 1 p.m. or as late as 3 p.m. The disbanding area (Broadway between 1st Street and Temple Street) will remain closed until approximately 6 p.m.

http://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/news_view/44839

Everyone needs to relax and STOP mis-quoting the facts.

ANYONE who actually reads the campaign to save Cahuenga Peak will see that AT NO TIME does anyone ever say the Hollywood Sign is in ANY DANGER whatsoever of being built over or being destroyed.

Tom Hanks, Steven Speilberg and Hugh Hefner rasied and put in their own money to BUY the land which is a good investment at the very least and a preservation of a natural habitat at the very best.

The HOLLYWOOD SIGN is protected by about 1,000 laws designed to preserve historic monuments and other things that fall into catergories near that.

INCORRECT headlines:

• “Hefner’s $900000 ensures protection for Hollywood sign”
• “Hollywood Sign Safe, Thanks To Hef”

CORRECT headline:

• “Donations spare Cahuenga Peak from developers”
• “Hef saves Cahuenga Peak.”

The SAVE THE PEAK website says very clearly it is the AREA WEST OF THE SIGN that is up for sale – NOT UNDER THE SIGN! PLEASE OBSERVE THE BORDERS BELOW so you do not sound as dumb as ten news channels and 15 magazines did today.

SAVE THE PEAK suggests that a potential housing development on the same skyline as the Hollywood sign would be an eye-sore and interrupt the view of the sign. It’s dumb and mis-leading and they shouldn’t have done it but they obviously didn’t think the truth was enough. The truth is that the ONLY CONCERN was for the 35 species who live on the peak who would be displaced by a housing development and the eco-system in this part of the Santa Monica mountain would be destroyed. NOW AS AN FYI to that. You can’t just build something because you stuff checks in city officials pockets. It would be nearly impossible for ANYONE to develop that peak and it’s just completely misleading to think it would ever be a serious threat. You have to get so many building codes to do these things and the issue of preserving the eco-system would be an instant NO GO! Believe it or not we actually do care about the future of our town and we do have laws for these sorts of things.

Don’t even get me started on the residents. That’s another issue. You have to get all the residents on board for any area that would be affected even from transporting materials. Ever heard of Robinson May? Its the old department store that even a relative to the Robinsons couldn’t get converted into condos and a mall. That land has changed hands three times in 5 years and NO ONE can get the residents on board.

The notion of the demolition of Cahuenga Peak is so far fetched I am just so sick of hearing about it and hearing the misleading campaign. It’s great that it’s been bought but the only real justice are when Steve, Tom and Hugh sanction the land for certain uses. Like the swampy field in Malibu that use to hold the carnival fair – that land was given as a gift to Malibu with a million rules for use (which is now over FYI and that gross hay ball of dust is actually going to serve a purpose now other than a massive divider for PCH and a hill).

I’m annoyed SAVE THE PEAK allowed the misleading campaign to go on and I emailed them a list of questions for a story about bringing the pertinent issues forth and they did not respond. They simply did not give enough credit to us and our city patrons who spends zillions of dollars on museums, hospitals and YES – preserving natural habitats, right here, in LA, all the time. And what a shame to think of the lost dollars they missed from people who may have been interested in helping the 35 species who live on the peak and the Santa Monica mountain eco-system.

As a member of the National Historic Society and as a former scientist and as an LA Native and resident, I find the whole thing really fucking annoying.