00:00:09.190 - 00:00:29.110

Yesterday morning at 7:35, large earth moving pieces of equipment and 35 armed policemen arrived on our beach in Santa Monica with no knowledge on our part, What was termed in the press as a sit in was actually not that because we had no knowledge that this

00:00:29.110 - 00:00:47.280

was going to happen when we saw these people descend on our property and proceed to destroy it. We sent 100 of our people out to sit on it so we could stop the bulldozers, which eventually caused $30,000 worth of damage. At this point, the city police

00:00:47.700 - 00:01:06.400

who came down with the bulldozers hoping to provoke an act and certainly were aggressive enough to do that started to arrest our people. When a couple of them went limp, they were then arrested for disturbing the peace, but they were arrested in this manner. One was

00:01:06.400 - 00:01:24.230

knocked to the ground face down on the sand and had a policeman put a foot on his head. Another director, Bill Crawford was picked up by his arms and legs and flung into a paddy wagon And it's always over in about 30 minutes. It was well

00:01:24.230 - 00:01:42.560

planned out on the part of the city of Santa Monica, that's obvious. But as I say, we had no idea that this was going to happen. It took us by surprise and like any other citizen, we will attempt to protect our property when people attack it.

00:01:44.480 - 00:02:05.470

We feel very strongly. We're going to take the city of santa Monica to court. We're going to sue everyone down there because they allowed this act to happen and as a matter of fact, made it happen. The city of Santa Monica, which is an old and

00:02:05.470 - 00:02:27.690

dying town, has real resistance to the fact that one of the few organizations in this world that's dedicated to living has settled in their midst. As I said before, we feel very strongly, we're going to sue the city attorney, the Chief of Police, all the city

00:02:27.690 - 00:02:41.420

councilman and bring them to task to show them that little municipalities are not above the mass of men. Nor are they allowed to act as they choose without due process.