We are BACK!
Houston's anti-authoritarian, corporate free, vegan friendly,
worker owned and operated Food Collective: REBEL ROOTS!

We’re ready to re-launch our monthly events starting tonight!
Join us at the Last Organic Outpost Emile Street Farm
for a delicious Feast and the film screening of The Garden!

You will have the options of:
Salad fresh from the Farm with a lemony dressing
Flavorful black bean soup
Theater food: pretzels salty and sweet! an array of seasoned popcorn! peanut butter cups!

$10 Suggested Donation for a Drink, salad, soup, and a dessert!

WE NEED YOUR HELP! We are starting to fundraising for a mobile kitchen to
bring into your streets. With the mobile kitchen we will continue to provide delicious healthy, sustainable meals and bring fresh produce from local farms to you and other communities where its most needed!!!

We thank those that have supported us in the past and those that will help us in the future!

Also, Sedition Books will be tabling with literature to read as you bask in the evening sun.
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Synopis:

The Garden (2008, 80 min)
The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los
Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of
healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have
since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods.
Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now,
bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.

The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this
urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin
America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak
out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers: Why was the land
sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market value? Why was
the transaction done in a closed-door session of the LA City Council? Why has it
never been made public?

And the powers-that-be have the same response: “The garden is wonderful, but
there is nothing more we can do.” If everyone told you nothing more could be
done, would you give up?

The Garden has the pulse of verité with the narrative pull of fiction, telling
the story of the country’s largest urban farm, backroom deals, land
developers, green politics, money, poverty, power, and racial discord. The film
explores and exposes the fault lines in American society and raises crucial and
challenging questions about liberty, equality, and justice for the poorest and
most vulnerable among us.