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"The Garden," a documentary about the struggle to save the South Central Farm in LA screens for Free on Thursday, May 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center 1201 W. Malvern Ave. Fullerton, CA, (714) 738-6595, www.themuck.org. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, The Garden is an engaging and powerful look at the famous political and social battle over the largest community garden in the US (located in South Central Los Angeles). Guest speaker Rufina Juarez, a community activist and farmer, who played a prominent role in the South Central Farm, will also be present to talk about her experience working with the film. In conjunction with the exhibition Don Normark: A Retrospective Celebrated photographer Don Normark exhibits selections from his three most famous bodies of work. Normark is known widely for his documentation of the Mexican American community of Chavez Ravine in the 1940s before it became the location of Dodger Stadium. More recently, he documented the struggle to preserve the South Central Farm in Los Angeles from development. The Muckenthaler exhibition includes selections from his photographs of gardens for Sunset magazine in the 1960s and 1970s. Rufina Juarez is an activist in the environmental justice movement. Her father was a Bracero who settled in the Imperial Valley where he was a fieldworker. As a child, she joined her family working in the grape fields of Coachella during the summers. She is one of the founding organizers of the South Central Farmers Feeding Families and played a leading role in the anti-eviction struggle from 2003-06 as documented in the Oscar-nominated film, The Garden. A graduate of Bernard Baruch College (CUNY), Ms. Juarez has an MA in Public Administration and did her under graduate studies in Political Science at the University of California-San Diego. Rufina grew up on her familys farm in the Imperial Valley and as a youth learned to recycle everything including water. She continues to farm on the familys land. She grows heirloom maize and is currently focused on bringing grass-fed beef to inner-city communities. Ms. Juarez is active with La Red Indigena Chicana and is part of the organizations international committee. . ____________________________________________________________ The Wizard Of Wall Street The Wall Street stock wizard drops the next bombshell picks for 2012 http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4fa1653d8f568cbbcf3st05vuc ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
