[Scpg] [hd-films-sb] Fwd: The Garden: Los Angeles urban farmers struggle against corporate interests, and the Take Back the Land movement

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> From: Culture Change <info at culturechange.org>
> Date: July 6, 2009 3:49:24 PM PDT
> To: <culturechange at lists.mutualaid.org>
> Subject: The Garden: Los Angeles urban farmers struggle against  
> corporate interests, and the Take Back the Land movement
> Reply-To: info at culturechange.org
>
> The Garden: Los Angeles urban farmers struggle against corporate  
> interests,
> and the Take Back the Land movement
>
>
> The Garden, a film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, vividly reveals a  
> world of
> healthy community gardening forgotten by many urban dwellers,  
> fighting the
> encroachment of backroom political deals, ... moneyed interests, the  
> state
> and corporations. One of many struggles worldwide for the basics of  
> food
> and shelter, a dramatic fight between the people connected to the  
> earth and
> the people abusing power and money.
> "Rising from the ashes of the LA riots..."
>
> "We have not found a larger inner city garden anywhere in the U.S."
>
> "In the middle of downtown, you have thirteen acres, people growing  
> food!"
>
> "it's a pretty simple idea, land, people, food, happy days!"
>
> ...and then comes the notice to vacate, and the struggle continues.
>
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> Take Back the Land works to use land for the benefit of the Miami
> community.
>
> Take Back the Land is the name of a book, a web site, an extensive
> collection of documentary videos, and a blog.
>
> Mission of Take Back the Land
>
> People of African descent have been systematically denied control of  
> land
> in their communities- from slavery to sharecropping to segregation  
> to the
> current gentrification and displacement of our communities.
>
> Elected officials and high ranking bureaucrats have sold out the black
> community in favor of enriching already wealthy and politically  
> connected
> developers.
>
> We assert our right to the land in our community and to use public  
> space
> for the public good- specifically, to house, feed and provide  
> community
> space for the poor, particularly in low income black communities. As  
> such,
> we are Taking Back the Land and empowering the black community, not  
> the
> politicians, to determine how to use land for the benefit of the  
> community.
> ...
>
> Read the complete article and view the movie trailer and links at
> http://www.CultureChange.org/go.html?477
>
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