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November 24, 2009

FILMS


THE GARDEN

This is one of the best films we've seen about activism when the chips are really down. A fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles was the largest of its kind in the United States. Started - created after the riots in 1992. but then the land was sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market value in a closed-door session of the LA City Council.

The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, they organize, fight back, and demand answers and take it in the chops.

If it's not showing in your area, you can buy the DVD here.

11/24/2009

1 Comments:

Anonymous Tom Puckett said...

Also available on NetFlix as DVD or streaming:

The Garden(2008) NR

Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy's politically charged, Oscar-nominated documentary follows a group of low-income families struggling to protect a 14-acre urban farm in the middle of South Central Los Angeles from bureaucratic real estate developers. A lightning rod for controversy in 2004, this cause célèbre drew the attention of numerous notable activists and politicians, including Dennis Kucinich, Joan Baez and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigoisa.

Genre:
Social & Cultural Documentaries, Political Documentaries

This movie is:
Suspenseful, Inspiring

Format:
DVD and streaming

November 25, 2009 8:05 AM  

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