[NewPacifica] "The Garden" screens in Westwood today, Friday 6/27 at 4:3

Join us for a Movie Screening of Scott Kennedy’s “The Garden”
Friday 6/27 at 4:30pm.
Landmark, 10850 W. Pico (at westwood, the westside pavillion) free parking.
Tickets are $12. please spread the word if you can!

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Subject:	[scf_enviro_action] The Garden wins top honors at Silverdocs and We Push to Stop the "h" Warehouse!
Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:13:47 -0700
From:	Tezozomoc <tezozomoc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To:	scf_enviro_action@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To:	<southcentralfarmers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <scf-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Action Alert/Media Advisory

Contact : Tezozomoc

800-249-5240

tezo@southcentralfarmers.com

If you missed the movie don’t miss it again….!!!

First it was a trash incinerator, and the community fought it!

Now, it’s a 10 acre low-wage diesel-soot 24 hour polluting warehouse and we must fight it!

The Garden wins top honors at Silverdocs.

The Garden, by director Scott Hamilton Kennedy, won a Sterling award for best U.S. feature. The Sterling Feature Jury praised the film for “its tenacity in storytelling in the face of injustice, and the filmmaker's singular vision in bringing a gripping, dramatic, and important story to the public eye. The Garden has raw emotion, visceral energy, and nail-biting twists and turns. It unravels a complex and layered tale of the destruction of America's largest urban farm that must not be forgotten," the jury citation said. The movie had its World Premiere at Silverdocs.

Construction of a warehouse facility and distribution center with approximately 643,000 square feet of warehouse and ancillary support space in a 46-foot high, two-story structure on a 10.04 acres site (437,196 square feet after dedication) in the M2-2 Zone. The project includes subterranean parking of approximately 114,399 square feet for 306 cars. Parking for another 39 cars would be provided at grade level for a total of 345 parking spaces.

"Economic inequality has been and remains deeply ingrained in Los Angeles.2 The disparity in income between rich and poor continues to widen with a dramatic increase in low-wage workers and the steady rise in the poverty rate. Not surprisingly, economic inequities coincide with racial and ethnic divisions, leaving African Americans and Latinos disproportionately over represented at the bottom of the economic ladder. Therefore, while many residents bask in the well celebrated Los Angeles charms, others, the poor of Los Angeles, survive in impoverished inner-urban neighborhoods, the very same neighborhoods that exploded into violence on April 29, 1992." -- Paul Ong, "Poverty and Employment Issues in the Inner Urban Core"

We need your help!

You can support the struggle to stop the warehouse by doing at least one of the following things.

Becoming a “Supporting Member” of the South Central Farmers Health and Education Fund so we can write a letter to the Planning Department from an organization with members…
I want to become a “Supporting Member”
Send an email petition to the City Planning department opposing the warehouse and demanding a full EIR and public hearings…
Petition
Join us for a Movie Screening of Scott Kennedy’s “The Garden” Friday 6/27 at 4:30pm. Landmark, 10850 W. Pico (at westwood, the westside pavillion) free parking. Tickets are $12. please spread the word if you can!
Join us Monday Night @ 7:00 pm at the SCF Center located 1702 e. 41^st St, Los Angeles, CA 90058 (800) 249-5240 for a meeting to discuss shutting down the warehouse.
Join us on July 2^nd, 2008 for a Rally in front of City Hall for the Hearing By: Deputy Advisory Agency,Date: July 2, 2008, Time: 10:OO AM ,Place: Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Room 1020, Los Angeles, CA 9001 2
Items: VTT-6 1482/ENV-2008-799-MND/Negative Mitigation Plan

Check our Website for the latest www.southcentralfarmers.com

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[NewPacifica] "The Garden" screens in Westwood today, Friday 6/27 at 4:30pm, wins top honors at Silverdocs and We Push to Stop the "h" Warehouse!