Over here in the big smog of Hackney, east London, we're fighting a battle to stop the LDA, who are responsible for bringing the olympic games to London in 2012, evicting and destroying a massive 80 plot, hundred year old allotment site. All just to make way for a footpath!
The Manor Gardens allotments are like an oasis of hope in one of the biggest industrial estates in London and, are some of the oldest allotments in London, having been bequeathed to be allotments 'in perpetuity' at the turn of the last century.
The footpath for the games, (which only last two weeks), will destroy in the process a century of devoted cultivation and a close-knit and diverse community of Turks, Cypriots, Greeks, Jamaicans, Africans and Brits, who have become rooted in this irreplaceable site.
If we are truly going to create a sustainable world we need to create more community run spaces like this not less.
Come help support the plot holders and help save a massive piece of nature by letting the LDA know we are not going to let this happen.
Come demonstrate outside the meeting between the LDA and the plot holders.
This Sunday 4th March:
Protest 10.30am
@ Old Baths Community Centre
80 Eastway Hackney LONDON E9 5JH;
near the junction with Wick Road
After there will be food to munch, talk of how we can build a green future for these gardens and beyond, as well as screenings of:
-Rat to Roses - a film about the history of the New York community Gardens.
-Those Who Dance - about the resistance to shell in Rossport, Ireland and Ogoniland, Nigeria
At 2.30pm @ the Manor Garden allotments, just off Waterden Road. Entrance is on the right next to the bus depot.
ps here a video of the allotments to hopefully inspire you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-aNwauzO3Y
The footpath for the games, (which only last two weeks), will destroy in the process a century of devoted cultivation and a close-knit and diverse community of Turks, Cypriots, Greeks, Jamaicans, Africans and Brits, who have become rooted in this irreplaceable site.
If we are truly going to create a sustainable world we need to create more community run spaces like this not less.
Come help support the plot holders and help save a massive piece of nature by letting the LDA know we are not going to let this happen.
Come demonstrate outside the meeting between the LDA and the plot holders.
This Sunday 4th March:
Protest 10.30am
@ Old Baths Community Centre
80 Eastway Hackney LONDON E9 5JH;
near the junction with Wick Road
After there will be food to munch, talk of how we can build a green future for these gardens and beyond, as well as screenings of:
-Rat to Roses - a film about the history of the New York community Gardens.
-Those Who Dance - about the resistance to shell in Rossport, Ireland and Ogoniland, Nigeria
At 2.30pm @ the Manor Garden allotments, just off Waterden Road. Entrance is on the right next to the bus depot.
ps here a video of the allotments to hopefully inspire you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-aNwauzO3Y
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03.03.2007 10:07
Graham