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Proyecto Jardin Evicted from Community Garden at White Memorial; Protest Planned for Saturday

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 29, 2016 | 22 Comments

This Sunday, January 31st, the eviction of the community gardening collective known as Proyecto Jardin from the garden space behind White Memorial Medical Center in Boyle Heights will mark a significant change for the neighborhood. In a community that has felt very much at the mercy of externally-driven change in recent years, many residents are […]

Culture Heals at Proyecto Jardín in Boyle Heights

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 7, 2013 | No Comments

As I sat down to watch the performance by Kalpulli Tlaltekuhtli for the “movement is medicine” segment of the La Cultura Cura Día de los Muertos celebration at Proyecto Jardín, I was (once again) reminded of my encounter with displaced Afro-Colombian farmers in Bogotá, Colombia, a decade earlier. Uprooted from the tropical and resource-rich region of […]