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DESCRIPTION:Save the Beach Flats Garden!!\n\nWe need your help in here the struggle to 
 protect the Beach Flats Garden, the largest green space in the densest and 
 poorest neighborhood in Santa Cruz and an island of agroecological and 
 cultural diversity. The Boardwalk and the city are threatening to evict the 
 gardeners from this space they have been tending for two decades. This 
 week, steps were taken to clear them out and the gardeners are asking for 
 the community's support. \n\nRally and March - Tuesday, 9th, 5pm (rally) 
 and 6pm (march)\nBeach Flats Garden - on third between Raymond and 
 Uhden\nWe will be marching to say to the city:\n\n- Don't take legal action 
 against the gardeners or punish their activism by not giving them space in 
 the reconfigured garden (which the city has threatened they will do)\n\n- 
 Protect the whole garden by asking the Seaside Company to not damage 
 anything in the 40% they want to close while negotiations over the 
 aquisition of the property are going on\n\n- Take real steps towards 
 negotiating for the aquisition of the garden like doing an appraisal and 
 bringing the Office of Economic Development \n\nOver the past year, the 
 gardeners have asked the community for support, and when 4000 people signed 
 the petition and 200 people showed up to the city council last fall, the 
 city agreed to attempt to negotiate a sale with the owners of the property, 
 who also own the boardwalk and much of the rest of the neighborhood. The 
 council recognized that the city master plan plan calls for far more green 
 space than Beach Flats currently enjoys and that the garden is all that is 
 left. They also responded to the argument that cultural and agroecological 
 diversity are crucial to our city that is so rapidly gentrifying. However, 
 the city leaders have fallen down on the job and are more focused on 
 securing a short-term lease for only 60% of the property than negotiating a 
 long-term solution. \n\nWe need you to show up and support the gardeners 
 and garden and encourage the city to work on our behalf! When the crowds 
 showed up, they seemed ready to prioritize the community over 
 profit.\n\nLets return to their door and hold them to their word. Join us 
 Tuesday 5pm at the garden, 6pm to march and 6:30 at the city 
 council!!\n\nHere is link to a video on the 
 garden:\nhttps://vimeo.com/139610416\n\nHere are links to recent articles 
 on this 
 story:\n\nhttp://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-news/santa-cruz-local-news/7249-not-digging-it.html\n\nhttp://www.santacruzsentinel.com/lifestyle/20160202/santa-cruz-community-garden-coalition-raising-funds-to-buy-land\n\nhttp://www.santacruzsentinel.com/opinion/20160130/chris-krohn-council-must-buy-entire-beach-flats-garden-land\n\nKAZU 
 ... listen here to really high quality 
 story:\n\nhttp://kazu.org/people/krista-almanzan#stream/0\n\nSanta Cruz 
 Indymedia:\n\nhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/03/18782548.php\n\nhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/02/18782525.php\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/07/18782691.php
SUMMARY:March For The Beach Flats Garden
LOCATION:Beach Flats Community Garden - on third between Raymond and Uhden\nSanta 
 Cruz, California 95062
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/07/18782691.php
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