City of Toronto, Canada Destroys Community Garden

[Arrowwind]

They waited until harvest time to make this event even more painful
This is a cut and paste from another place.

http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/13169+

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 (http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/author/jacob-kearey-moreland)



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An Occupy Gardens supporter was passing by Queens Park on her way to work when she saw workers taking down the gardens. She took these photos.
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Occupy Gardens was going to harvest the food tomorrow for their "Autumn Jam: A Harvest Party"
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The Harvest Party will still happen tomorrow, but the harvest has been destroyed.
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The Garden was planted on May 1st during North America-wide Occupy Protests
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City of Toronto Workers Destroy Free Community Food Garden Amid Growing Food Crisis (http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/13169)




Toronto, Friday Sept 28th, 10am

Amid a growing food crisis, this morning workers from the City of Toronto were ordered by City of Toronto

Parks Director Richard Ubbens to remove all live plants and food from the People's Peas Garden in Queens Park. They were ordered to take the plants and food to the dump and lay sod overtop of this most beautiful free community food garden, without warning, without a chance to remove the rare heirloom plant species or harvest the food.
The garden was planted by Occupy Gardens and allies on May 1st, in defense of local and global food security. While the garden has been growing undisturbed for nearly 5 months, with the help of hundreds in the community, the city deliberately decided to have it removed upon the eve of the Autumn Jam: A Harvest Party and celebration of sharing, community and free local food, which is happening tomorrow from 12-6pm at the garden in Queens Park (northwest section).

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.

More at link: http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/13169

[Samsara]

This is sickening... they could at least have given the crops to a local food bank.

[bluestflame]

because the food crisis is DELIBERATELY CREATED, to force people to eat food they would not if given a choice

they can';t allow independant healthy food to be available but they were not only destroying a free food garden but attempting to destroy an idea that would also grow as more people saw the benefits of it to all

same as tobacco , they took control over its production so you could then only get it after it had been processed , chemically treated and modified

this is where they are headed with food production

[Ontarioguy]

Pitiful!!!

[Earth Angel]

I grew up in Toronto and this is just sickening......and why did they have to wait until the eve of the Autumn Jam Harvest Party......wouldn't want people coming together and getting more crazy idea's about planting gardens now would we?? I think we all should start turning our front gardens into vegetable gardens.....I wonder how long it would be before there was a by law that said you can't grow food on your own front lawn ??? Not long Im guessing

[bluestflame]

was timed for effect

[Sidney]

All those people will be greiving and in ill spirits, and the evil beings can then FEED off of the negative energy they created.

Everytime I see a dead animal on the road, or a fresh cut tree, I say a prayer that it be taken to the new earth, or gods kingdom and given love and life in that dimension. That is how I deal with the pain, and I am hoping that i am manifesting a new lifee for that which was destroyed. I pray all those beautiful heirloom plants and their spirit live on elsewhere.

We are not related to those that destroy the sacred life giving plants.

[Nenuphar]

Thank you for posting this. I'm going to spread this article far and wide. Shameful!

[CdnSirian]

Power is more important than food...we knew that! :eek:

[Hermite]

Wow, I am just seething over this. It happened on the 28th and not a single major newspaper mentioned it? Not even the CBC? I did find out this much: Toronto city workers were ordered by Toronto's Parks Director Richard Ubbens to remove all live plants and food. If I lived there I would so be out front of that guy's house with signs letting everyone in the neighborhood know how low this slimebag is. :mad2:
Maybe I'll start a FB page, if someone hasn't already.

[sigma6]

That sounds like the Toronto I know... $$$$$$$$$$$

[mescalitto]

Utterly disgusting, they knew exactly what they were doing. Theres a petition to stop this removal of the park gardens, granted a little late for this year but please sign it folks :
http://www.change.org/petitions/city-of-toronto-parks-director-richard-ubbens-stop-the-removal-of-a-free-food-garden-in-park-limits#

[Arrowwind]

We are not related to those that destroy the sacred life giving plants.

Quite right. They are not fully human ..... seriously.
A fully human person could not and would not participate in this destruction