Bush screws workers (again) on way out:
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From the
United Farm Workers
ufwaction.org/campaign/h2aregs109a/iiuw7db4y7b68b3t?
...Change has started. Upon taking office President Obama immediately stayed any pending or new 11th hour regulations that the Bush administration tried to push through.
However, this does not include the devastating new H2A regulations...These Bush administration H2A regulations gut existing protections for both domestic and foreign farm workers. They make it easier for growers to slash the pay of domestic farm workers and hire imported foreign laborers instead of U.S. field workers. They weaken government protections in an industry known for violating the minimum wage, housing requirements and other rules.
The new Obama Administration is facing a mountain of problems left by the outgoing administration. All of them are important. And all require action.
We need your help to ensure that farm workers do not get buried under the pile of crises...
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Bette Midler's
New York Restoration Project
nyrp.org
...founded the nonprofit...in 1995 in the belief that clean, green neighborhoods are fundamental to the quality of life, and that every community in New York City deserves an oasis of natural beauty. Seeing many parks and open spaces in dire need of cleanup and restoration, Ms. Midler created NYRP to be the "conservancy of forgotten places," particularly in New York City's underserved communities.
"When I moved to New York, I was very disappointed in how parts of the city looked. I was so upset, I didn't sleep for weeks. I love New Yorkers, and I'm like them—I'm noisy, I have my opinions—but I'm not used to the kind of carelessness and waste that I was seeing. People were throwing their garbage out the window, leaving their lunches on the ground. Finally, I realized I needed to actually do something—even if I had to pick up the stuff with my own hands."
~Bette Midler
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Rodale rodaleinstitute.org
Pleasant Park Community Garden
nyrp.org/gardens/garden.php?sub=0&p=3&g=3
This large, busy garden occupies a once-abandoned area between 114th and 115th streets in East Harlem and is one of NYRP's most actively used community gardens. In 1999, NYRP rescued the plot from commercial development and reclaimed the garden in partnership with local residents and the Little Sisters of the Assumption, who operate a social services organization in the neighborhood. A small group of neighborhood residents, mostly women who had emigrated from Mexico, cleared the lot and established the garden's first handful of raised vegetable beds. Since 2000, these gardeners have raised high yield crops of hearty vegetables, including radishes, tomatoes, squash, cilantro, and papalo.
In 2003, the garden received a $250,000 restoration and endowment gift from Rodale Inc. for capital improvements and other garden amenities. These include secure fencing, landscaped common areas, and 17 raised vegetable beds. The garden also includes innovative green-design amenities, such as a solar panel for electricity, one of the largest rain-water collection systems in the city, a composting toilet, and a garden shed/meeting room featuring hay-bale construction. In addition to funding the garden restoration and endowment, Rodale has provided mushroom-compost-enriched soil, a reference library, and has organized donations of supplies and equipment from garden-industry advertisers...Though vegetable growing is the primary activity, the restoration has created areas designed for ornamental gardening and group gatherings. The River East Elementary School on Pleasant Avenue conducts a student gardening program here, as well.
NYRP celebrated the opening of the restored Rodale Pleasant Park Community Garden, and its neighbor The Family Garden at the Fourth Annual Spring Picnic, held June 14, 2005.
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Manhattan's Lower East Side gardens
creativelittlegarden.org/partners.htm
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about 1975 - outdoor play called
Turning the Earth
at garden-to-be site W. North Ave. & Resaca St. North Side Pittsburgh, as actors and audience dig up the site.
"...Revolution means turning the Earth..."
tonisant.com/aitg/Radical_Theatre/more2.shtml
They played and dug, then 2 of us planted the garden.
======
www.livingtheatre.org/history.html
...In the 1970's, The Living Theatre began to create The Legacy of Cain, a cycle of plays for non-traditional venues. From the prisons of Brazil to the gates of the Pittsburgh steel mills, and from the slums of Palermo to the schools of New York City, the company offered these plays, which include Six Public Acts, The Money Tower, Seven Meditations on Political Sado-Masochism, Turning the Earth and the Strike Support Oratorium free of charge to the broadest of all possible audiences...
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treebranch.com/community_gardens.htm
...saw community gardens as a powerful way to make New York whole and healthy again. Their efforts successfully anchored and revitalized neighborhoods and, in the process, community gardens wrought a significant change on the urban landscape.
Community gardens existed in New York before the 1970's. The Depression of the 1890's and the Great Depression of the 1930's spurred many municipalities, including New York, to permit citizens to grow food on city-owned land. The two world wars with their accompanying food shortages brought about Liberty and Victory Gardens. However, these were temporary measures, abandoned as the precipitating crises passed. New York's community gardening movement grew out of the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970's, but it laid down deep roots. Its strength and vitality endures despite the recent events described below.
New York's contemporary community gardening movement is grounded in the work of three extraordinary women:
Liz Christy, founder of the Green Guerillas (1973), "bombed" Lower East Side vacant lots with homemade "seed grenades" and created the Bowery-Houston Garden, New York's oldest community garden. She then went on to develop the Open Space Greening Program (1975) for the Council on the Environment of NYC.
Hattie Carthan, whose successful efforts beginning in 1969 to preserve three brownstones slated for demolition in Bedford-Stuyvesant, also saved a tree that had no business growing in New York City, the southern Magnolia Grandiflora. Committed to planting and protecting her neighborhood's street trees, she then established the Magnolia Tree Earth Center.
In the late 1960's, fashion designer Mollie Parnis encouraged volunteer efforts rewarding neighborhood clean-ups and beautification projects with a welcome check at a recognition ceremony hosted by City Hall. The Mollie Parnis Dress Up Your Neighborhood Awards, administered by the Citizens Committee for New York City, have supported hundreds of self-help initiatives throughout New York.
In 1976, Cornell University Cooperative Extension was chosen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to implement the pilot Urban Agricultural Program to provide New York's backyard and community gardeners with horticultural expertise and assistance. This pilot program was so successful that by 1990, 23 cities were offering such services. (Unfortunately, the program was reorganized several years ago, eliminating this valued and valuable assistance.)
By 1978, scores of community gardens were flourishing by dint of hard labor and donated plants from nurseries and residents replanting their outdoor spaces. The one thing, however, that the gardeners did not have was permission to garden this city-owned land; technically they were squatters. Government resisted legitimizing gardens without liability protection. Neighborhood Open Space coalition created a low-cost liability program that gardeners could buy into.
This led to the creation of Operation GreenThumb in 1978. (The program's name was shortened to GreenThumb when it was transferred, in 1995, to Parks & Recreation from the Department of General Services [DGS], now known as the Department of Citywide Administrative Services [DCAS].)
For a year, GreenThumb operated with one part time staff person whose sole function was to issue leases. Permission to garden the land was authorized by a city-wide land use committee (this committee had many names over the years) that determined the disposition of city-owned land, e.g., to be sold at auction, selected for housing and commercial development, assigned to other agencies for open space, parking, or building construction. Leases were issued to community gardeners who requested land for which no immediate use was identified. From the beginning, GreenThumb was described as an "interim site" program, with access to land between demolition and development.
In 1979, GreenThumb applied for and received its first federal Community Development Block Grant, funding which continues to today. This allowed GreenThumb to hire staff and provide gardeners with materials to develop their gardens - fencing, tools, lumber for growing beds and garden furniture, soil, seeds, shrubs, and bulbs - and with training in how to design, build and plant their gardens.
Over time other organizations were created or established programs to assist the city's community gardeners. In addition to GreenThumb, Green Guerillas, Council on the Environment of New York City and Citizens Committee for New York City, organizations assisting gardeners include the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition, Trust for Public Land, Brooklyn Botanic Garden/ Brooklyn GreenBridge, New York Botanical Garden/Bronx Green-Up, New York Horticultural Society and Trees New York. Working singly and cooperatively for the past 20 years, these organizations eagerly offer materials and advice. The resources they provide are more than matched by the resources every neighborhood can supply in abundance - the people who live there.
Until the mid-1990's, a minimum of housing was developed in New York City. During that time, the number of GreenThumb community gardens grew to 750...
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Wer jist a hole y gram
newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html
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real gangsta
The Right To Food
By Cernig
By a vote of 180 in favour to 1 against (United States) and no abstentions, the Committee also approved a resolution on the right to food, by which the Assembly would "consider it intolerable" that more than 6 million children still died every year from hunger-related illness before their fifth birthday, and that the number of undernourished people had grown to about 923 million worldwide, at the same time that the planet could produce enough food to feed 12 billion people, or twice the world’s present population. (See Annex III.)
======The Bush administration, speaking for the U.S.A...
From the
United Farm Workers
ufwaction.org/campaign/h2aregs109a/iiuw7db4y7b68b3t?
...Change has started. Upon taking office President Obama immediately stayed any pending or new 11th hour regulations that the Bush administration tried to push through.
However, this does not include the devastating new H2A regulations...These Bush administration H2A regulations gut existing protections for both domestic and foreign farm workers. They make it easier for growers to slash the pay of domestic farm workers and hire imported foreign laborers instead of U.S. field workers. They weaken government protections in an industry known for violating the minimum wage, housing requirements and other rules.
The new Obama Administration is facing a mountain of problems left by the outgoing administration. All of them are important. And all require action.
We need your help to ensure that farm workers do not get buried under the pile of crises...
======
Bette Midler's
New York Restoration Project
nyrp.org
...founded the nonprofit...in 1995 in the belief that clean, green neighborhoods are fundamental to the quality of life, and that every community in New York City deserves an oasis of natural beauty. Seeing many parks and open spaces in dire need of cleanup and restoration, Ms. Midler created NYRP to be the "conservancy of forgotten places," particularly in New York City's underserved communities.
"When I moved to New York, I was very disappointed in how parts of the city looked. I was so upset, I didn't sleep for weeks. I love New Yorkers, and I'm like them—I'm noisy, I have my opinions—but I'm not used to the kind of carelessness and waste that I was seeing. People were throwing their garbage out the window, leaving their lunches on the ground. Finally, I realized I needed to actually do something—even if I had to pick up the stuff with my own hands."
~Bette Midler
======
Rodale rodaleinstitute.org
Pleasant Park Community Garden
nyrp.org/gardens/garden.php?sub=0&p=3&g=3
This large, busy garden occupies a once-abandoned area between 114th and 115th streets in East Harlem and is one of NYRP's most actively used community gardens. In 1999, NYRP rescued the plot from commercial development and reclaimed the garden in partnership with local residents and the Little Sisters of the Assumption, who operate a social services organization in the neighborhood. A small group of neighborhood residents, mostly women who had emigrated from Mexico, cleared the lot and established the garden's first handful of raised vegetable beds. Since 2000, these gardeners have raised high yield crops of hearty vegetables, including radishes, tomatoes, squash, cilantro, and papalo.
In 2003, the garden received a $250,000 restoration and endowment gift from Rodale Inc. for capital improvements and other garden amenities. These include secure fencing, landscaped common areas, and 17 raised vegetable beds. The garden also includes innovative green-design amenities, such as a solar panel for electricity, one of the largest rain-water collection systems in the city, a composting toilet, and a garden shed/meeting room featuring hay-bale construction. In addition to funding the garden restoration and endowment, Rodale has provided mushroom-compost-enriched soil, a reference library, and has organized donations of supplies and equipment from garden-industry advertisers...Though vegetable growing is the primary activity, the restoration has created areas designed for ornamental gardening and group gatherings. The River East Elementary School on Pleasant Avenue conducts a student gardening program here, as well.
NYRP celebrated the opening of the restored Rodale Pleasant Park Community Garden, and its neighbor The Family Garden at the Fourth Annual Spring Picnic, held June 14, 2005.
======
Manhattan's Lower East Side gardens
creativelittlegarden.org/partners.htm
======
about 1975 - outdoor play called
Turning the Earth
at garden-to-be site W. North Ave. & Resaca St. North Side Pittsburgh, as actors and audience dig up the site.
"...Revolution means turning the Earth..."
tonisant.com/aitg/Radical_Theatre/more2.shtml
They played and dug, then 2 of us planted the garden.
======
www.livingtheatre.org/history.html
...In the 1970's, The Living Theatre began to create The Legacy of Cain, a cycle of plays for non-traditional venues. From the prisons of Brazil to the gates of the Pittsburgh steel mills, and from the slums of Palermo to the schools of New York City, the company offered these plays, which include Six Public Acts, The Money Tower, Seven Meditations on Political Sado-Masochism, Turning the Earth and the Strike Support Oratorium free of charge to the broadest of all possible audiences...
======
treebranch.com/community_gardens.htm
...saw community gardens as a powerful way to make New York whole and healthy again. Their efforts successfully anchored and revitalized neighborhoods and, in the process, community gardens wrought a significant change on the urban landscape.
Community gardens existed in New York before the 1970's. The Depression of the 1890's and the Great Depression of the 1930's spurred many municipalities, including New York, to permit citizens to grow food on city-owned land. The two world wars with their accompanying food shortages brought about Liberty and Victory Gardens. However, these were temporary measures, abandoned as the precipitating crises passed. New York's community gardening movement grew out of the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970's, but it laid down deep roots. Its strength and vitality endures despite the recent events described below.
New York's contemporary community gardening movement is grounded in the work of three extraordinary women:
Liz Christy, founder of the Green Guerillas (1973), "bombed" Lower East Side vacant lots with homemade "seed grenades" and created the Bowery-Houston Garden, New York's oldest community garden. She then went on to develop the Open Space Greening Program (1975) for the Council on the Environment of NYC.
Hattie Carthan, whose successful efforts beginning in 1969 to preserve three brownstones slated for demolition in Bedford-Stuyvesant, also saved a tree that had no business growing in New York City, the southern Magnolia Grandiflora. Committed to planting and protecting her neighborhood's street trees, she then established the Magnolia Tree Earth Center.
In the late 1960's, fashion designer Mollie Parnis encouraged volunteer efforts rewarding neighborhood clean-ups and beautification projects with a welcome check at a recognition ceremony hosted by City Hall. The Mollie Parnis Dress Up Your Neighborhood Awards, administered by the Citizens Committee for New York City, have supported hundreds of self-help initiatives throughout New York.
In 1976, Cornell University Cooperative Extension was chosen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to implement the pilot Urban Agricultural Program to provide New York's backyard and community gardeners with horticultural expertise and assistance. This pilot program was so successful that by 1990, 23 cities were offering such services. (Unfortunately, the program was reorganized several years ago, eliminating this valued and valuable assistance.)
By 1978, scores of community gardens were flourishing by dint of hard labor and donated plants from nurseries and residents replanting their outdoor spaces. The one thing, however, that the gardeners did not have was permission to garden this city-owned land; technically they were squatters. Government resisted legitimizing gardens without liability protection. Neighborhood Open Space coalition created a low-cost liability program that gardeners could buy into.
This led to the creation of Operation GreenThumb in 1978. (The program's name was shortened to GreenThumb when it was transferred, in 1995, to Parks & Recreation from the Department of General Services [DGS], now known as the Department of Citywide Administrative Services [DCAS].)
For a year, GreenThumb operated with one part time staff person whose sole function was to issue leases. Permission to garden the land was authorized by a city-wide land use committee (this committee had many names over the years) that determined the disposition of city-owned land, e.g., to be sold at auction, selected for housing and commercial development, assigned to other agencies for open space, parking, or building construction. Leases were issued to community gardeners who requested land for which no immediate use was identified. From the beginning, GreenThumb was described as an "interim site" program, with access to land between demolition and development.
In 1979, GreenThumb applied for and received its first federal Community Development Block Grant, funding which continues to today. This allowed GreenThumb to hire staff and provide gardeners with materials to develop their gardens - fencing, tools, lumber for growing beds and garden furniture, soil, seeds, shrubs, and bulbs - and with training in how to design, build and plant their gardens.
Over time other organizations were created or established programs to assist the city's community gardeners. In addition to GreenThumb, Green Guerillas, Council on the Environment of New York City and Citizens Committee for New York City, organizations assisting gardeners include the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition, Trust for Public Land, Brooklyn Botanic Garden/ Brooklyn GreenBridge, New York Botanical Garden/Bronx Green-Up, New York Horticultural Society and Trees New York. Working singly and cooperatively for the past 20 years, these organizations eagerly offer materials and advice. The resources they provide are more than matched by the resources every neighborhood can supply in abundance - the people who live there.
Until the mid-1990's, a minimum of housing was developed in New York City. During that time, the number of GreenThumb community gardens grew to 750...
======
Wer jist a hole y gram
newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html
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