Human Be In

PDF: liberatetheland

You are invited!
to join us in celebration of keeping community gardens alive @

Esperanza Gardens
May 12th 12-5pm
685 Florida Street @ 19th San Francisco

We will be keeping spirits high with:

Flash Meditation -> drum and dance;
freestyle sound waves, hip-hop singing, and beats
facilitated by Dimitrious

Textiles workshop and seedling give away with PRAXIS;
1077 Mission Street, facilitated by Aerin -  info@praxisSF.com

Permaculture Design Lab and Mobile Ecology Center with Rising Roots;
facilitated by Ryan

Live Music
by Thunderground Collective
with Jack, Kevin, Sydney, Andy, and Kevbot

Farmers Market
by the CCSF Green Core
facilitated by Eva

Food and drink contributions are appreciated especially pizza ingredients/dough for cooking in the cobb oven 

Please feel welcome to contact us at RootsRhizing@gmail.com with ideas or workshops of your own to contribute

Check out HumanBeIn.org for more info and other upcoming events!

There is an expanding network at the moment growing and creating to counter gentrification in the mission district of San Francisco. As part of this, neighbors and community members have been building garden beds, painting, and turning an unused parking lot @ 23d and Shotwell (1245 South Van Ness) into a vibrant ‘village’ of art and gardens.

Sunday, April 28th starting at 11 a.m.
All day work park to make the yard look nice and tidy
Lunch will be served at midday, bring gardeners who like good food and company

Sunday, May 5th starting at 11 a.m.
All are invited to plant the garden together with the neighbors!
at 1245 South Van Ness or 23d and Shotwell, SF
Lunch will be served at midday,
Poder, the Latino grassroots organization, will bring their children!

Word has gone around that on this same day, May 5th at 1 pm, there will be an
“anti-gentrification block party” at 16th and Mission BART Plaza with
free food, live performances, information booths, guest speakers, and a kids’ space
The flyer states, “in the last several decades, thousands of people have been displaced from the Mission District due to evictions, high rents, rising cost of living, transportation costs, and a lack of access to employment and education. In the last several years, rent for many has almost doubled. This Cinco de Mayo, (May 5th), join with Mission resident to speak out and gather to build a culture of resistance against gentrification in San Francisco and beyond.”

Beloved citizens of the World,

May this email find you responding to the call of the Earth by being fierce love.

Yes beloved satyagrahis, the “developers” –who are they? what are their names? where do they live?– have some teeth on the urban agriculture movement in the Bay Area.

Here’s the latest post from brother Tree:

http://thefreefarm.blogspot.com/2013/04/keep-on-growing.html

Plenty of time to reflect how to move skillfully.

6:1 is the ratio of empty units to people without houses in San Francisco and yet “the developers” want to build more? People without houses and houses without people. Madness.

What do children have to say about this in the time of climate change? What our siblings of 350.org have to say and do about this?

Is it time to merge the nonviolent direct action with urban agriculture? Is this a warm-up for “Gandhi’s salt” and satyagraha of the 21st century? How do we defend the developers from themselves? How do we serve them by preventing them from their greed/oppression?

We must start disobeying with Great Love now more than ever.

(Growing) in insurgent learning and radical love,
******

LA urban forest gardener Ron Finley speaks on TED talks

Transforming Cities, Urban Gardening: Ignite the Spark

San Francisco currently has 6,000 homeless people and 36,000 vacant housing units. For every person without a home, there are 6 houses left empty. Yet, we bulldoze gardens to build condominiums and apartments…