On Monday, August 19, the Reel & Meal film series presents
a free screening of The Garden at the New Deal Cafe, 113 Centerway in Greenbelt's Roosevelt Center. The film starts at 7 pm, following
an optional vegan buffet at $13 served from 6:30 pm.
The Garden, a 2008documentary by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, depicts the fate of South Central LA, an industrialized area of sprawling warehouses and vacant lots. In the aftermath of the ’92 riots, the city gave the land to the LA Regional Food Bank and local gardeners transformed it into a thriving 14-acre collective farm, which sustained 350 farmers and their families, many of them immigrants. In July 2006, a private developer had the farmers evicted and the garden bulldozed. In 2013 it remains an empty lot. After the film, Jim Cohen, Director of the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of Maryland, will lead a discussion about the South Central Farm and the issues it raises about individual property rights and social and environmental values.
Please bring donations of clothing and shoes, which we will send to survivors of the 10-year “blood diamonds” war in Sierra Leone. For more information, contact Abdul Turay at 240-640-0082 or Ed Fallon at edfallon@gmail.com or 240-413-7449.
The "Reel and Meal at the New Deal" film series is a collaboration of three Greenbelt
affinity groups. Prince George’s
County Peace and Justice Coalition plans this month’s documentary.
Please bring donations of clothing and shoes, which we will send to survivors of the 10-year “blood diamonds” war in Sierra Leone. For more information, contact Abdul Turay at 240-640-0082 or Ed Fallon at edfallon@gmail.com or 240-413-7449.
The "Reel and Meal at the New Deal" film series is a collaboration of three Greenbelt
affinity groups. Prince George’s
County Peace and Justice Coalition plans this month’s documentary.
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