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Movie out about South Central Farm- free Screening in LA Sat 6/21 at 1pm!

   Fri, June 20, 2008 - 7:17 PM
Dear allies - Please circulate widely amongst your LA community! - we appreciate your support and hope to see you there!

ps- if you are on facebook and want to invite your community, please go to this link - www.facebook.com/events.php


Please join us for a special FREE screening of The Garden at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Please watch the trailer <www.thegardenmovie.com/trailer> and pass it along to friends. Thank you for your support.

The Garden. From the ashes of the L.A. riots, the South Central Farmers have nurtured the nation's largest urban farm. Since 1992, they have created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.

SPECIAL SCREENING
The Garden

A Film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Los Angeles Film Festival
10887 Lindbrook Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Saturday, June 21 1 PM

Free screening! Tell a friend
Click here for details: www.lafilmfest.com <www.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2...tnote.php


View the trailer:
www.thegardenmovie.com/trailer <www.thegardenmovie.com/trailer>




About the film
The Garden is the unflinching look at the struggle between urban farmers and the City of Los Angeles and a powerful developer who wants to evict them and build warehouses. Mostly immigrants from Latin American countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand, "Where is our 'Justice for all'?"



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



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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.



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Sun, June 22, 2008 - 10:19 AM
i'm surely going to attend this one, thanks kachina.

PS: the link to the film festival page is broken.