City of Toronto Workers Destroy Free Community Food Garden Amid Growing Food Crisis
Occupy Gardens plants in Queens Park destroyed without harvesting food
by Jacob Kearey-Moreland Toronto, Friday Sept 28th, 10am Amid a growing food crisis, this morning workers from the City of Toronto were ordered by City of Toronto
The reason? The people did not have permission to grow free food on public land. I come from a city and country where one does not need permission to do the right thing. We are experiencing a “glocal” food crisis, where more and more people are lining up at food banks for kraft dinner and peanut butter, waiting lists for community gardens are growing, food prices rising, and our leaders are nowhere to be seen. Rather they are hiding behind their desk ordering the workers to destroy whatever hope we have left.
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Occupy Gardens was going to harvest the food tomorrow for their “Autumn Jam: A Harvest Party”
The Harvest Party will still happen tomorrow, but the harvest has been destroyed.
The Garden was planted on May 1st during North America-wide Occupy Protests
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We will be having our Autumn Jam harvest party/vigil tomorrow as scheduled from 12noon-6pm in the northwest section of Queens Park.
As a side note – last Monday Sept 17th gardeners travelled to Ottawa on a Peas Keeping mission for national, global food security, where we planted a free heart-shaped food garden on Parliament Hill, at which point the RCMP stomped on the plants and threatened arresting people, we removed the plants and relayed the sod.
Thanks so much for your time and help,
In Peas, Lovage & SOILidarity!
Jacob Kearey-Moreland
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