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DESCRIPTION:\n\nFilm evenings begin with potluck refreshments & social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nURBAN ROOTS\nby Mark MacInnis\n\nEveryone may have heard about 
 Detroit’s urban farming movement, but this inspiring documentary brings 
 it alive by getting down in the furrows with the growers who are turning 
 the city’s vacant lots into fields of abundance.  This documentary on the 
 urban farming phenomenon in Detroit is timely, speaking to a nation 
 grappling with collapsed industrial towns and the need to forge a 
 sustainable and prosperous future.  Determined, resourceful Detroit 
 citizens have seen jobs and neighbors disappear as the city depopulates.  
 Instead of deciding to flee with the rest, they’ve stayed behind and 
 begun growing vegetables.  Lots of them.  These resourceful people may have 
 lost their jobs, but they never lost their stiff upper lips.  Where nature 
 reclaimed vast stretches of the abandoned rust belt, Detroit citizens are 
 reclaiming their spirits.  Wherever there is grass, there is a chance to 
 put food on the table.  And where there is a chance to put food on the 
 table, there’s a chance for a new start.  Now, all around the city of 
 Detroit, a growing movement of urban farmers is changing the way people 
 think about food — and life in Detroit.  And so it is with Detroit — 
 the city that lost its engine never lost its drive.  No longer an 
 industrial powerhouse in search of the American dream, Detroit has stumbled 
 upon a dream much larger than its people could have ever imagined possible. 
  It took men like Henry Ford, William Durant, and Lee Iacocca to build this 
 city, but it’s taken a bunch of strong willed self-taught urban farmers 
 to save it.  The decline of Detroit is perhaps a blessing in disguise.  
 From this “food desert” has, out of necessity, formed an idea so 
 important it could change future agriculture as we know it.  Perhaps this 
 moving documentary is the beginning.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the 
 corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/03/18716880.php
SUMMARY:Urban Roots
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/03/18716880.php
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