What is now called part of New Jersey was "bought" from the native tribe, the Hoboken, (those who discovered the place, i.e. not Columbus) for a few kegs of beer and some beads.
As we speak, Jamaican organic dairy farmers dump thousands of gallons of milk per week because the IMF contract/debt they have requires they import our not-organic powdered milk. Jamaicans, impoverished from the IMF debt, can't afford their home-grown organic milk and buy the powdered stuff we send them. See the movie "Life and Debt" http://lifeanddebt.org/ Truth be known, life be grown. Paco John Verin City Wide Coordinator - Philadelphia Green The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 100 North 20th Street, 5th floor Philadelphia, PA 19103-1495 Phone: 215-988-8885; Fax 215-988-8810 http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of a.h.steely > Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 10:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [cg] NYC gardens > > > When the T.V. stations were surveying the country about what > the memorial at > the World Trade Center site should be, I thought that it > should be a statute > of an Indian with a handful of beads with a sign engraved > that says, "What > goes around comes around." When the World Trade Center was > built, thousands > of families lost their homes. > > Surrounding the statute I envision, the entire area that was > taken from the > neighborhoods of NYC back in the late 1960's and early 1970's > should be > turned into a couple of three story buildings for the > homeless surrounded by > gardens. It should be a place of peaceful work not another > ugly skyscraper > that denies our affinity for the land. The former mayor of > New York was > taking the gardens that the poor and young people had reclaimed from > abandoned lots for selling to the highest bidder according to > Mother Jones > Magazine. I salute the Lower East Side Artists! > > Sincerely, > Helen Steely > Harrisburg, Pa. > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is > only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn > more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
