GRITtv with Laura Flanders

GRITtv Interview: Land and Liberty in Los Angeles: The Battle for a Community Garden

Feb 18, 2009 Episode Archive
About this series: Laura Flanders talks to creative thinkers and change-makers from the worlds of politics, arts and the new economy. The smartest conversations, with the smartest thinkers and doers of our time, distributed in multiple formats on a variety of platforms. Keep abreast of fresh content by following GRITtv, the site Flanders founded, on Twitter @GRITtv.
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The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a fo...
The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country?s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director of The Garden, nominated for an Academy Award and Stuart Sender, one of the film's co-executive producers talk about why the battle to save a community garden in Los Angeles has so much to tell us. Less
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