June 24th Hearing on Community Gardens, 10am

Action Alert from the NYC Community Gardens Coalition:

JOIN US AT CITY HALL WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 @ 10AM
FOR AN IMPORTANT CITY COUNCIL HEARING ON THE FUTURE OF OUR GARDENS!

We
urgently need all gardeners and garden supporters to bring your voices
and letters of concern to a public hearing sponsored by City Council's
Committee on Parks and Recreation at City Hall and speak up for the
preservation of all community gardens! We need as many people as
possible to attend to prove our political (voting) power - so bring
friends and forward this message far and wide!
 
If you are a
Parks or a city-operated GreenThumb community garden and think you are
safe, THINK AGAIN! Your garden is not safe, as the Attorney General's
agreement that saved us in 2002 is set to expire in 2010 with NO OTHER
legislation in place to protect us!

The hearing will focus on
the future of community gardens in NYC and specifically Resolution
#1890, which calls upon the City to map all GreenThumb community
gardens in NYC as parkland, thereby giving them stronger protection for
the future!

NYC City Council Hearing on Community Gardens
Wednesday June 24th @ 10:00am
Committee Room @ City Hall

City
Hall is located in City Hall Park. You can enter the plaza from either
the west side of the park at Broadway and Murray Street or the east
side at Park Row.By Subway: #4, #5, #6 trains to City Hall/Brooklyn
Bridge; #2, #3 trains to Park Place; W, R trains to City Hall; C, A
trains to Chambers Street By Bus: M15 to City Hall/Park Row
 
Please
bring: ID to enter City Hall and 20 copies (double-sided) of your
prepared testimony as to why your garden - and all gardens - should be
made permanent (if you need help to make copies, please call us - the
most important thing is for you to BE THERE!).

Also bring: Youth
from your garden (now that school is out - their stories are very
powerful), your garden's scrapbook, pictures, and banners. Our
representatives need to understand the deep importance of the community
gardens.

If you cannot make the meeting, but want to submit testimony, you can mail or fax it by June 24th to:
Gary Altman, Legislative Council
Council of the City of New York
250 Broadway 15th Floor, New York NY 10007
Att: Community Gardens Hearing - June 24, 2009
Fax: (212) 442-6420 (Attn: Gary Altman)

For more information: See our website
for our recommendations to protect our gardens, links to Resolution
1890, the Attorney General's agreement, and more. If you have any
questions, call us at 888-311-3993.

New York City Community
Gardens Coalition - United We Grow! The mission of the New York City
Community Gardens Coalition is to promote the preservation, creation
and empowerment of community gardens through education, advocacy and
grass-roots organizing.