Thank You! Your Work Is Turning the Tide at the BellevueSobriety Garden

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Friends,

Thank you for your support of the Bellevue Hosptial Sobriety Garden in NYC.
Your e-mails, letters of support, telephone calls to the legislators listed on
our website seems to be getting the attention of the powers that be:  The
healing, therapeutic Bellevue Sobriety Garden cannot be destroyed or
diminished.

The battle ain't over at the Bellevue Sobriety Garden in Manhattan, but your
help and emails are starting to turn the tide. I'm cautiously optimistic,
here.

Please keep your phone calls, e-mails and snail-mail missives coming. The tide
seems to be turning, a bit. Please don't let up in your messages to our
elected officials. For more information, please go to our website:

http://www.runninginterference.com/index.htm
FYI - This is what "juice," political influence, a withdrawal from the favor
bank, looks like when community gardeners  like you do the work in their
neighborhoods, working with local politicians and stake-holders, to make the
alliances they need to make to ensure their survival.

"Community Gardening is 50% gardening and 100% politics."

Best regards,
Adam Honigman
Bellevue Sobriety Garden

From:Elias, Minna <Minna.Elias@mail.house.gov>
To:Constituent
Subject:Meeting on Sobriety Garden
Date:Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:09:47 -0400

Just to let you know b our meeting yesterday went well.  Nothing will happen
to the garden until October, if at all.  They agreed not to touch it until
after the growing season.

We also talked with them about finding alternative sites and as soon as they
figure out how many parking spots they actually need, we can move forward.

Minna R. Elias
New York Chief of Staff
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney
1651 Third Avenue, Suite 311
New York, NY 10128
Tel: (212) 860-0606
Fax: (212) 860-0704
Sign-up for periodic email updates from Congresswoman Maloney at
http:/maloney.house.gov

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