Announcing a new Meetup - joint with - Los Angeles Progressive Singles!
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The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild Presents:

Frumkin Gallery, Studio 21

3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica 90405

Food Available for Purchase at 6:00 PM.

All proceeds go directly to SOL Catering Co-op.

$5-10 Donation Students, $15-20 Donation All Others

(Nobody turned away for lack of funds)

Discussion to follow film. To help conserve SCF's resources.

RSVP for meals would be appreciated.

For more information call: [masked] or e-mail [masked]

Farmers and organizers will talk about the experience and the future of sustainable organic local gardening.

Synopsis of THE GARDEN

The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community.

But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.

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, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers:

Why was the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market value? Why was the transaction done in a closed-door session of the LA City Council? Why has it never been made public?

And the powers-that-be have the same response: “The garden is wonderful, but there is nothing more we can do.”

If everyone told you nothing more could be done, would you give up?

The Garden has the pulse of verité with the narrative pull of fiction, telling the story of the country’s largest urban farm, backroom deals, land developers, green politics, money, poverty, power, and racial discord. The film explores and exposes the fault lines in American society and raises crucial and challenging questions about liberty, equality, and justice for the poorest and most vulnerable among us.

THE GARDEN TRAILER

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www.blackvalleyfilms.com