RE: NYC gardens

**"John Verin" j*@pennhort.org**

What is now called part of New Jersey was "bought" from the native tribe, the Hoboken, (those who discovered the place, i.e. not Columbus) for a few kegs of beer and some beads.

As we speak, Jamaican organic dairy farmers dump thousands of gallons of milk per week because the IMF contract/debt they have requires they import our not-organic powdered milk. Jamaicans, impoverished from the IMF debt, can't afford their home-grown organic milk and buy the powdered stuff we send them. See the movie "Life and Debt" http://lifeanddebt.org/

Truth be known, life be grown.

Paco John Verin
City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 North 20th Street, 5th floor
Philadelphia, PA  19103-1495
Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810
http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: community_garden-admin@mallorn.com
> [c*@mallorn.com]On Behalf Of a.h.steely
> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 10:07 PM
> To: community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject: [cg] NYC gardens
> 
> 
> When the T.V. stations were surveying the country about what 
> the memorial at
> the World Trade Center site should be, I thought that it 
> should be a statute
> of an Indian with a handful of beads with a sign engraved 
> that says, "What
> goes around comes around."  When the World Trade Center was 
> built, thousands
> of families lost their homes.
> 
> Surrounding the statute I envision, the entire area that was 
> taken from the
> neighborhoods of NYC back in the late 1960's and early 1970's 
> should be
> turned into a couple of three story buildings for the 
> homeless surrounded by
> gardens.  It should be a place of peaceful work not another 
> ugly skyscraper
> that denies our affinity for the land.  The former mayor of 
> New York was
> taking the gardens that the poor and young people had reclaimed from
> abandoned lots for selling to the highest bidder according to 
> Mother Jones
> Magazine.  I salute the Lower East Side Artists!
> 
> Sincerely,
> Helen Steely
> Harrisburg, Pa.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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