FRESNO: Before you vote to give away Roeding Park

Please, please check out these websites NOW, before you vote on the Roeding Park ballot measure:

http://www.privatization.org

http://www.reason.org (read their how-to guides for privatizing virtually everything, including airports!)

And while you're at it, visit http://www.sfbg.com (the site of the independently-owned San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper) and search for articles on San Francisco's Presidio.

San Francisco was promised a Presidio National Park dedicated to sustainability and peaceful international conflict resolution. Instead--thanks to privatization, in the form of a government-owned corporation, the "Presidio Trust," which was SOLD TO SAN FRANCISCANS AS A "PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP"--San Francisco is ending up with a gigantic (and UNnecessary) George Lucas office complex, a pricey new private high school, and a Disney museum.

There was even talk recently of turning an historic Presidio building into CONDOS, which would have been sold at market rates (up to around $1 million per condo unit).

The Presidio Trust is bringing in more and more money, but the public is getting less and less of what they were promised. And when it's all built out, it will be one very hectic, very congested, and very UNparklike place.