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Community garden evicted for Wal-mart
Mar. 4th, 2006 01:38 pmPlease check this out guys...
http://community.livejournal.com/sustainable_dev/29442.html?view=45314#t45314
March 3, 2006 1130 PST (FTW) - In L.A.’s Havana Experiment FTW told you the dramatic and compelling story of what 350 families have done over a 13-year period with a 14 acre plot of land in a depressed inner city. They are feeding themselves with organically grown and healthy produce that requires zero fossil-fuel inputs and requires virtually no transportation expense. This is being done on soil that was once paved, covered, depleted and ignored. More than anything else, this is the one area of effort most essential for America’s (and the world’s) major cities to pursue as Peak Oil takes its first deadly bites.
Two days ago the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department unceremoniously posted an eviction notice on the farm’s gate calling for the farm to be vacated by March 6th (next Monday). That would leave current crops in the ground to be plowed under by a developer’s bulldozers. The intended replacement for the farm is a warehouse intended to serve (primarily) Wal-Mart.
These are poor families feed themselves... Not on food stamps... not taking a handout. We talk of welfare reform and how people should be taking responsiblity for themselves... here are people doing exactly that and their reward is eviction after 13 years of hard, honest work.
the website for the farm is located http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030306_scf_eviction.shtml
You can help by E-mailing or calling the LA mayor
Email: mayor@lacity.org Phone: (213)978-0600
Honorable Antonio Villaraigosa
Mayor of Los Angeles
200 N. Main St. Rm 303
Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://community.livejournal.com/sustainable_dev/29442.html?view=45314#t45314
March 3, 2006 1130 PST (FTW) - In L.A.’s Havana Experiment FTW told you the dramatic and compelling story of what 350 families have done over a 13-year period with a 14 acre plot of land in a depressed inner city. They are feeding themselves with organically grown and healthy produce that requires zero fossil-fuel inputs and requires virtually no transportation expense. This is being done on soil that was once paved, covered, depleted and ignored. More than anything else, this is the one area of effort most essential for America’s (and the world’s) major cities to pursue as Peak Oil takes its first deadly bites.
Two days ago the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department unceremoniously posted an eviction notice on the farm’s gate calling for the farm to be vacated by March 6th (next Monday). That would leave current crops in the ground to be plowed under by a developer’s bulldozers. The intended replacement for the farm is a warehouse intended to serve (primarily) Wal-Mart.
These are poor families feed themselves... Not on food stamps... not taking a handout. We talk of welfare reform and how people should be taking responsiblity for themselves... here are people doing exactly that and their reward is eviction after 13 years of hard, honest work.
the website for the farm is located http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030306_scf_eviction.shtml
You can help by E-mailing or calling the LA mayor
Email: mayor@lacity.org Phone: (213)978-0600
Honorable Antonio Villaraigosa
Mayor of Los Angeles
200 N. Main St. Rm 303
Los Angeles, CA 90012
