Film Screening & Feast: The Garden (feat. vegan food by Rebel Roots)
03/13/2010 6:00 pm
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Come on out for a delicious vegan meal and a screening of the 2008 documentary film:
The Garden
Saturday, March 13, 6pm
@ The Last Organic Outpost
Emile Street Community Farm
(700 Emile St., near Gunter)
Rebel Roots, Houston's worker-run food collective, will be providing a vegan meal for a small donation - help them build their organization!
Sedition Books will be tabling with literature to read as you bask in the sun.
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Rebel Roots, Houston's worker-run vegan food collective will be cooking up a farm-fresh VEGAN FEAST Saturday, March 13 at 6pm and inviting the public to the beautiful Emile Street Community Farm (The Last Organic Outpost) with organically grown crops cultivated on site. After sunset there will be an open-air screening of the 2008 documentary film, THE GARDEN which tells the gripping story and saga of the legendary 14 acre South Central Los Angeles Community Farm.
During the movie, Rebel Roots will offer delicious (and not so nutritious) homemade vegan theatre snacks - pretzels, candy, popcorn and sweet drinks! Also Saturday is their work day at the farm, so they are inviting people to come out early (from 9AM on) and join them to help weed, plant, and pick during the day. "You know a hard day of work makes a night of fellowship and relaxing that much more sweet."
Rebel Roots is a fledgling vegetarian food collective hoping to increase healthy food, education and community organizing in h-town. They are raising funds right now for Houston's first vegetarian taco truck/education station. A modest donation will be asked for the meal.
The Last Organic Outpost (Emile Community Farm) is located at 700 Emile Street (Near Gunter) directions available at:
An announcement of the event can be heard this Wednesday at 10PM on KPFT 90.1 FM ~ Houston's weekly vegan radio forum, VEGAN WORLD RADIO.
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The Garden (2008)
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.
