Scheduled Allotment Destruction by Olympics

[9ball]

Looks like good news so far...

I've signed, although I'm waiting for the e-mail link to click to confirm. *twiddles thumbs*

Tom

[quercusrobur]

latest update on Manor Allotments - demo this Sunday;

Over here in the big smog of Hackney, east London, we're fighting a battle
to stop the LDA, who are responsible for bringing the olympic games to
London in 2012, evicting and destroying a massive 80 plot, hundred year
old allotment site. All just to make way for a footpath!

The Manor Gardens allotments are like an oasis of hope in one of the
biggest industrial estates in London and, are some of the oldest
allotments in London, having been bequeathed to be allotments 'in
perpetuity' at the turn of the last century.

The footpath for the games, (which only last two weeks), will destroy in
the process a century of devoted cultivation and a close-knit and diverse
community of Turks, Cypriots, Greeks, Jamaicans, Africans and Brits, who
have become rooted in this irreplaceable site.

Surely if we are truly going to create a sustainable world we need to
create more community run green spaces like this, not less.

Come help support the plot holders and, help save a massive piece of
nature from being covered by concrete, by letting the LDA know we are not
going to let this happen.

Come demonstrate outside the meeting between the LDA and the plot holders.

This Sunday 4th March:

Protest 10.30am
@ Old Baths Community Centre
80 Eastway Hackney LONDON E9 5JH;
near the junction with Wick Road

After there will be food to munch, talk of how we can build a green future
for these gardens and beyond, as well as screenings of:

-Rat to Roses - a film about the history of the New York community Gardens.

-Those Who Dance - about the resistance to shell in Rossport, Ireland and
Ogoniland, Nigeria

At 2.30pm @ the Manor Garden allotments, just off Waterden Road. Entrance
is on the right next to the bus depot. For a map to the site check out...
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/363981.html

ps here's a video of the allotments to hopefully inspire you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-aNwauzO3Y

http://www.lifeisland.org

[quercusrobur]

Youtube film of Manor Gardens allotments;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-aNwauzO3Y

Its got Suggs and Django Bates in it! And a smooth but clueless suit from the LDA who is guaranteed to make you shout and swear at your computer screen...

[the.fee.fairy]

Quite fancy going to the demo actually. Anyone else going?

[quercusrobur]

On todays Grauniard website Seb Coe has written a blog piece supporting the 'development' surrounding the 2012 olympics, one can also post comments, so perhaps an ideal opportunity to voice or concerns about manor Gardens?
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/seb ... omise.html

[Muddypause]

See, I've got this theory -

The Millenium Dome was originally commissioned by the outgoing John Major administration, but everybody forgets that, and when it was completed Tony Blair got all the blame for it. If it hadn't been for the odd war or two, Blair would be mainly remembered for the biggest mistake that he never made.

Now that Labour are starting to look vulnerable in the polls, they commission an impossibly expensive financial disaster that the Tories will have to carry the can for. And, whereas Blair could have cancelled the dome, but didn't, Cameron won't have that option. The best part of this plan is that the prime mover of bringing the Olympics to London is Toryboy Seb Coe.

I confidently predict that if Cameron wins the next election, his legacy is going to be the unpayable national debt caused by the 2012 Olympics.