Nurturing Truth, Sowing Justice
FROM THE ASHES OF THE LA RIOTS arose a lush, 14-acre community garden. The largest of its kind in the United States. Now, bulldozers threaten its future. If everyone told YOU to just give up…would you?
I’M SURE MOST OF MY READERS have been following the story of the South Central Farm in Los Angeles for a while. Searching my archives back to 2006, I was very surprised to see I did not write on it, as I thought I had. Then I remembered that I included an image about the resistance to the takeover in my Oppression vid. So that is what was in my mind.
Anyway, via Digby, I learned that the movie made about it has been nominated for an Academy Award! This is fantastic. Because now this story can get to more people. It’s a good story. About buena gente. And the age old battle waged by the ruling classes against those just trying to feed themselves and live.
It really is an amazing film. I wrote up a review of it for Make/Shift.
ah, nice! yeah, i’ve really got to see it…
she’s got the look i want…
community gardens are a perfect example of the foundation of what a better purpose is all about.
plant seed… and pass it on…