Fw: petition's new location
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- Subject: Fw: petition's new location
- From: "* M* L* <r*@ibm.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:30:43 -0500
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fyi. anyone would is interested in signing the petition for saving NYC
community gardens...
rene.
-----Original Message-----
From: myla <myla@cobite.com>
To: Rene M. Lipshires <rene1@ibm.net>
Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 10:22 PM
Subject: petition's new location
>Thank you so much for your support of NYC gardens! The response has been
>so overwhelming that the petition site has been moved from its original
>address to a web site that can support the high volume of respondants.
>
>With 14,000 empty, buildable lots in New York City and only 750
>community gardens, Mayor Giuliani plans to auction off over 120 thriving
>community gardens in May. This is one of several auctions in which
>gardens have been targeted. These gardens, many of them decades old,
>were established with the city's blessing on abandoned and vacant lots
>that had often been centers of drug and crime activity.
>
>New York City's gardens are known across the country. They are studied
>in our nation's schools. Their disappearance would mark not only a
>tragedy for the city, but would set a dangerous precedent for other
>cities across the country whose garden programs are struggling to
>survive.
>
>The Mayor thinks only a small minority care about the gardens. If he
>were made aware of the large numbers of people, not only in New York but
>across the nation, who care about this issue, he will be forced to
>reconsider his policies.
>
>If you would like to lend your support to this cause, please visit
>http://www.ethepeople.com/
>to add your name to a national petition in support of NYC's gardens and
>forward this message to all the people you know who might also like to
>lend their support.
>
>
>
