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“Stand for our Land!” Mayoral Forum and Grassroots Organizing Teach-In

April 27, 2013 @ 9:30 am - 4:00 pm

Free

Join us for NYC Community Garden Coalition’s **FREE** annual forum. This year’s forum will serve as a platform for mayoral candidates to go on record with their policies on community gardens, parks, and urban agriculture. We will also use this day to organize and inspire the grassroots movement to protect and amplify our community gardens and open public spaces so New Yorkers can grow healthy food, learn from one another, celebrate our diversity, and nurture our planet and our communities. Register here.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Karen Washington: former NYCCGC president and outstanding leader of NYC community garden and food sovereignty movements!

SPECIAL GUEST
Pete Seeger: this internationally acclaimed folk troubadour has written music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and environmental causes. His 94th birthday is the week after the forum.

CONFIRMED CANDIDATES
Christine Quinn
Bill de Blasio
Sal Albanese
Tony Gronowicz
Erick Salgado

TEACH-IN WORKSHOPS LED BY
Picture the Homeless
Tenants and Neighbors
South Bronx Unite
La Guardia Corner Gardens & Lawyer
La Plaza Cultural & LUNGS
NCYHA

MUSICAL GUESTS:

Morley: Socially-conscious singer-songwriter for social justice and global equality

Stephan Said: Singer-songwriter, rapper and global activist for social change

Fulaflute: Haunting sounds of west-African flute duo, by Sylvain Leroux & Bailo Bah

Pierce Turner: poetic Celtic soul

RSVP (REGISTER) for this free event using the “buy tickets” link above.

We are grateful for Citizens Committee, who is partially funding this great event!

Also acknowledging all the NYC Greening groups supporting this event:
Green Guerillas
Just Food
NYRP (New York Restoration Project)
BQLT (Brooklyn Queens Land Trust)
East New York Farms
Farming Concrete
NY4P (New Yorkers for Park)
596 Acres
Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Greenbridge
More Gardens
New York Botanic Garden – Bronx Green Up
Tenants & Neighbors
Green New Yorkers
LES Ecology Center

Thank you for your support!

Details

Date:
April 27, 2013
Time:
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

Cooper Union Great Hall
The Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street
New York , NY 10003 United States

Organizer

NYC Community Garden Coaltion
View Organizer Website