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Hmong community garden to be demolished, police substation to be built in it's place

by Abe
For the last 13 years a group of Hmong immigrants have been cultivating 4.5 acres in SE Fresno. The city is no planning on tearing it down and building a police substation.
In SE Fresno on Belmont there is a community garden that has been
operated by Hmong immigrants for the last 13 years. I was out there
yesterday, it's amazing and obviously has had a lot of work put into it.
But as of right now the city is planning on tearing it down on Nov. 1
and building a police station.

Here's the initial article

http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/905324.html

Here's a very excellent video that goes with it:

http://videos.fresnobee.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=2224196&item_index=3&all=1&sort=NULL

Many of us are very upset by this and want to do something to try and
stop this. There were 4 of us at today's City Council meeting, the
advice given to us by Council member Perea was that we need to have as many people as
possible e-mail and write letters to the council to get this put on next
weeks agenda. Then we need to get as many people down there as possible
in support of this garden.
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