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Occupy the Farm Rally 5/15 report from Albany Patch

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Re-posted from Albany Patch     Read more on Albany Patch about the Gill Tract occupation. About 75 people reportedly came together at the Albany Library and Community Center on Tuesday evening for a “re-convergence” meeting called by Occupy the Farm following a police raid Monday morning along with 10 arrests later in the day. The group, perhaps up to 200 people, according to one attendee, marched along the westbound lanes of Marin Avenue to the Gill Tract after a short meeting. The group was set to leave Albany for Oakland to … Continued

How Occupy the Farm Gave a Breath of Fresh Air to the Occupy Movement and Asserted its Right to Reclaim the Commons

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Jeff Conant Note: this is an update of an article first written for Climate Connections. When the original was written and published, on May 8, the Gill Tract Farmers Collective was actively engaging local community members in reclaiming the last and best piece of arable farmland in the urban Bay Area. Today, a week later, the core of that collective is in jail awaiting charges to be filed.   May 14, 2012 – When hundreds of people took up the banner of “Occupy the Farm” on April 22nd and laid … Continued

Occupy the Farm protesters try to plan next move

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CBS NEWS Alan Wang BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) — Those Occupy protesters who took over a piece of farmland owned by UC Berkeley are trying to figure out their next move. They were kicked off the land early Monday, but they not giving up. Early Thursday evening a small band of Occupy the Farm members and supporters gathered in front of the library. Occupy the Farm members say they’ll leave from the library and march to the UC Berkeley chancellor’s mansion, on campus. Many of them are still upset after being … Continued

Farm raided: 5 PM reconvergence meeting Tuesday 5/15/12 at the Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Ave.

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Occupy theFARM BULLDOZER UC

UC Police Assert Private Control Over Gill Tract Farmers Respond: Farmland is for Farming ” Farm raided: 5 PM reconvergence meeting Tuesday 5/15/12 at the Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Ave.” Statement from Occupy the Farm: Albany, CA – This morning (5/14/12), over 100 police officers armed with projectiles, batons, and pepper-ball guns descended on the Gill Tract Farm to attempt to force an end to efforts to reclaim the Gill Tract for community use. The public land, which is managed by UC Berkeley’s development arm known as Capital Projects, … Continued

lies by your ‘leaders’

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the 8th of march

the new media committee has just published a statement The Occupy Oakland Media Committee (OOMC) is a committee of Occupy Oakland* (OO) that makes use of the press, social media, multimedia, and other forms of media to connect with supporters by promoting actions events, workshops, and nurturing political dialogue. The OOMC will develop and adhere to policies regarding the following responsibilities: Connecting outside press inquiries to current and relevant sources of information – rotating “spokespersons,” contacts within committees, or document archives – primarily within OO but also within the greater … Continued

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I’ve uploaded my photos of Occupy the Farm (Gill Tract), here: http://bapd.org/120422-reclaiming-the-gill-tract.html Click on any of those medium-sized images to go to the page for the individual full-sized image for downloading. The images at the very end are outtakes of the CBS5 video of the 2012-05-14 police raid. The others are photos by me.  My photos just before the raid show the seedlings coming along nicely the evening before the raid. Ken Cheetham http://bapd.org/ken.html ken.cheetham@comcast.net

“OccupyStrategy”? 5 Questions for Eli Zigas, food systems and urban agriculture program manager at SPUR.

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“OccupyStrategy”? 5 Questions for Eli Zigas, food systems and urban agriculture program manager at SPUR.  In support of: Panel Discussion - Expanding Urban Agriculture on Public Land. May 16, SF.  Interview by Willi Paul, Permaculture Exchange.   – excerpt – “I think there’s no question that in the urbanized parts of the Bay Area, there is a strong demand for space where people can grow food or learn about growing food. And since those efforts often require more land than what’s available in an individual yard, people are looking to public land for space. And, … Continued

Justice Begins with Seeds Conference – Interview #2 with GMO Educator & Presenter Pamm Larry, labelgmos.org. Presented by the biosafetyalliance.org. May 18 – 19. By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine.

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Justice Begins with Seeds Conference – Interview #2 with GMO Educator & Presenter Pamm Larry, labelgmos.org. Presented by the biosafetyalliance.org. May 18 – 19. By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine. http://planetshifter.com/node/2015   WP: Tell us about the forces that are fighting to not label GMO foods? PL: “They are the chemical companies that produce the genetically engineered seeds and all the chemicals that the farmer has to buy to use them. They are the large monoculture agribusiness companies who are shoving out small farmers and poisoning us, the soil and our planet. … Continued

We are having a Community Visioning Meeting at 5 pm Saturday at the Farm

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The flier for this weekend’s events has been posted on this site. Please check out all the cool workshops the Gill Tract Project has for both Saturday and Sunday this three week anniversary weekend to preserve urban farming in Albany! Come for the workshops but stay for the community visioning meeting! Phat Beets and the Ecology Center are coming. We hope to welcome everyone who wants to know more about the undeveloped acres of the Gill Tract. Our community will be the beginning and result of planning for this land.

Justice Begins with Seeds Conference – Interview with Presenter Katherine Zavala , IDEX. Presented by the biosafetyalliance.org. May 18 – 19, 2012, SF. By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine.

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Justice Begins with Seeds Conference – Interview with Presenter Katherine Zavala , IDEX. Presented by the biosafetyalliance.org. May 18 – 19, 2012, SF. By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine. The purpose of the upcoming Justice Begins with Seeds conference is to grow the food sovereignty movement by advancing learning and building coalitions between the GMO counter-movement in the US, and other movements thriving to develop sustainable food systems, alleviate climate change through soil practices, defend the rights of indigenous communities, reduce social inequalities and encourage citizen democracy against corporatocracy. http://planetshifter.com/node/2014  

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