Housing and salmon

Press Release
Urgent Urgent Urgent
3/15/06

The Association of all people who will not actively speak out against the privatization of land rent


SALMON IN DANGER OF NOT HAVING FAIR ACCESS TO HABITAT IN WHICH TO MATE AND SPAWN

The Michael Krazny show on KQED, Forum, which has solidly backed us in not talking candidly about the social canker of privatizing land rent, aired a program today, March 16, 2006 about the astonishingly pitiful plight of tiny, baby salmon who cannot reach their ancestral birth places. It’s so sad what these ichythlogical specifish must suffer as they yearn for the home their forbears cohabited in.

So many of the creeks, streams and other waterways of California have been dammed, filled in and road-paved over that the tiny, baby salmon literally find it impossible to make a living any more. They squiggle in frustrated biological urge just outside the entrance-ways to places they need and have an ecological right to. In the words of that apocryphal hymn penned in New England way back when Indians challenged the right of non-North-Americans-by-birth to occupy Squantoville, Huronosphere and Alcatraz-a-hoho, “salmon are no less than the trees and the stars, they have a right to be here.” Why should humans have a superior right over other species in use of the earth? Human beings excepted, every animal and plant ought to be given its fair share of use of the earth. When developers put in a subdivision or commercial park they should be required to supply, in perpetuity, the opportunity cost of lost habitat to every fish, mole, john doe, and their descendants who is displaced. Private property rights in land should not supersede the rights to existence of non-human life.

Poulo Armagedditon, spokesperson for the Association of All People who will not actively speak out against the privatization of Land Rent, declared at a powersnack press conference outside Supervisor Sturmund Drang’s office that everybody who wants to ensure that present and future land owners never have to seriously worry about housing advocates bringing up the complete socialization of Land Rent should show up on City Hall’s steps at Noon on Tuesday and chant, “Crumbs for the fish, unearth the buried riparian vistas of sex-crazed future lox!”

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