Human Be In http://humanbein.org Celebrate + Educate + Liberate Fri, 24 May 2013 19:40:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Liberate The Land: Direct Action to Plant Food and Hold Space http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/ http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 07:37:50 +0000 Roots Rising http://humanbein.org/?p=1265 Continue reading →]]> liberatetheland

For a printable poster to distribute click here: http://humanbein.org/print-out-flyers/

We are being called to defend the land we grow on.
While 36,000 housing units are left empty in San Francisco, property owners and developers plan to build condominiums and high-end housing structures at the cost of displacing urban farms and gardens.

To keep the land arable, the earth able to breathe, and the people of San Francisco able to grow and eat local, nutrient-rich, organic food in the city, people will walk to a potential development site on June 1st to plant food, build a village, and hold space together.

We can out-grow the old power structures!

There will be a dialogue and discussion about the loss of urban gardens to development in San Francisco at the Free Farm at 1 pm (thefreefarm.org) This will be followed by a gathering of folks who will take direct action in Jefferson Square Park directly across Gough Street from the Free Farm. We will get ready to move, plant, and hold space at 2pm. Follow us on twitter @LiberateLand or #liberatetheland if you are late!

The Free Farm

The first bands, workshops, and activities have been confirmed for June 1st, a schedule will be out soon at: http://humanbein.org/schedules/

Please bring skills to share, food to eat, tools, seedling, starts, instruments, and what you need to build a beautiful village on the earth!

E-Mail us at HumanBeIn2013@gmail.com with offers of material and other support :) Thank you!

]]> http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/feed/ 0 A Celebration to Keep Community Gardens Alive! http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/ http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:29:01 +0000 Roots Rising http://humanbein.org/?p=1236 drum and dance; freestyle sound … Continue reading →]]> 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!

]]> http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/feed/ 0 Gardening at ‘The Yard’ in the Mission http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/ http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:54:56 +0000 Roots Rising http://humanbein.org/?p=1220 Continue reading →]]> 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.”

]]> http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/feed/ 0 A letter from a Bay Area gardener http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/ http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:39:07 +0000 Roots Rising http://humanbein.org/?p=1118 Continue reading →]]> 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,
******

urban farming

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…

]]> http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/feed/ 0 Channel 7 covers the arrests and garden bulldozing http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/ http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:01:53 +0000 Roots Rising http://humanbein.org/?p=1114 allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true"
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]]> http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/feed/ 0 Seed Camp is set up to greet the Bulldozers Jan 8, 2012 http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/ http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:12:20 +0000 Roots Rising http://humanbein.org/?p=1111 Continue reading →]]> Come support the stewards of the Golden Gate Ecology Center in greeting the bulldozers that are coming to bulldoze the neighborhood gardens at 780 Frederick Street this morning, Tuesday, January 8th, as early as 6 a.m.

Three persons were arrested yesterday, two for sitting in the greenhouse as Park and Wreck planned to remove it, and 1 for potting plants from the garden beds to bring out to the sidewalk so that those from the neighborhood who planted them could retain them.

There is no need to be in an arrest-prone position, and we hope no one is arrested during these actions.

However, if you want to come film, observe, do outreach, help save plants, or in any way support the folks standing up the bulldozers please come out to 780 Frederick Street this morning.

Thank you!!

Golden Gate Ecology Center
HumanBeIn.org
GoldenGateEcologyCenter@gmail.com

]]> http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/feed/ 0 3pm GA at 780 Frederick (Park and Wreck plans to tear down the greenhouse) http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/ http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:40:26 +0000 Roots Rising http://humanbein.org/?p=1108 Continue reading →]]> Park and Wreck plans to tear down the Golden Gate Ecology Center greenhouse at 3pm today. Meet for a GA at 3pm at the gate to 780 Frederick Street to decide what to do…

This may be an exciting day :)

HumanBeIn.org

]]> http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/feed/ 0 3pm GA at Golden Gate Ecology Center http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/ http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:59:35 +0000 Roots Rising http://humanbein.org/?p=1096 Continue reading →]]> The Golden Gate Ecology Center, complete with tool share, seed library, and books and resources is set up outside the locked gate of 780 Frederick Street. We will host a meeting/GA here at 3pm today to decide next steps and further actions to realize our model of a resource center for SF.

]]> http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/feed/ 0 The Sheriff is here and Bulldozers are on site http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/ http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:43:28 +0000 Roots Rising http://humanbein.org/?p=1091 Continue reading →]]> #GoldenGateEcologyCenter – 780 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA

The folks who slept out from the night of January 3d to the morning of January 4th to protect the community gardens were removed from the Golden Gate Ecology Center, and former HANC Recycling and Kezar Gardens site, under threat of arrest and being in jail until Monday on the morning of January 4, 2013.

While most ecology center infrastructure was removed, the greenhouse, garden beds, and other elements of the site are within the locked fences of 780 Frederick Street, and a bulldozer is inside prepared to destroy the garden beds that are currently growing food and medicine, including many permaculture plants and edible perennials.

Please join us throughout the day outside the gate of 780 Frederick Street to discuss next steps for creating an ecology center, which we believe we have shown to be a needed and beneficial space for San Francisco.

See you outside the Golden Gate Ecology Center!

Space Transformers
HumanBeIn.org

]]> http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/feed/ 0 http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/ http://humanbein.org/%save_Kezar_gardens%/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:42:29 +0000 Roots Rising http://humanbein.org/?p=1088 Continue reading →]]> The folks who slept out from the night of January 3d to the morning of January 4th to protect the community gardens were removed from the Golden Gate Ecology Center, and former HANC Recycling and Kezar Gardens site, under threat of arrest and being in jail until Monday on the morning of January 4, 2013.

While most ecology center infrastructure was removed, the greenhouse, garden beds, and other elements of the site are within the locked fences of 780 Frederick Street, and a bulldozer is inside prepared to destroy the garden beds that are currently growing food and medicine, including many permaculture plants and edible perennials.

Please join us throughout the day outside the gate of 780 Frederick Street to discuss next steps for creating an ecology center, which we believe we have shown to be a needed and beneficial space for San Francisco.

See you outside the Golden Gate Ecology Center!

Space Transformers
HumanBeIn.org
#GoldenGateEcologyCenter

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