Searching for a non-profit to help raise funds to re-sod Solidarity Park (City Hall) so that others can enjoy it, renew a sense of good, get main stream media coverage and look GOOD in the face of so much nay saying regarding the Los Angeles movement.
Cleaning up after ourselves and repairing what we damaged is an important part of modeling how we want our governments and corporations and others to behave!
We could do this on our own - however, perhaps having a non-profit attached is a good idea and WILL keep the movement going in a new and better light.
Best,
OccupyNowLA
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nice!
Submitted by Yvonne de la Vega on
I will contact this group and see if they are interested. Thanks for posting this Rona, I agree, let's see what we can do. But listen - I was there for GA last week and after the rains, the lawn is quickly returning. Have you seen it? It kinda blew me away because I thought it was awful quick. -ydlv
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Submitted by Yvonne de la Vega on
I'm learning Transparency - here's a screenshot. i'll ask the garden council if they would like to register to enter the conversation. or perhaps let's start an affinity group? thoughts? liz? no I can't do another meeting entailing commitment, I'll fail you.
I'll see if we can set up a chat or whatever you prefer Rona. But ...YAY!
and Writer Guy with the impossible name to spell - cryptomnesiac
in regard to the city entertaining xeriscaping, perhaps the venerable garden council would prefer a project such as that. I have a notion to call on the OLA Artists to submit renderings of beautiful xeriscapes or landscape renderings to present to the City Hall.
ooh isn't that a goood idea? present the most beautiful, feasable, environmentally correct landscape idea after consulting on the possilities with the garden council of course.
"The Revolution will not be televised, it will be on Youtube." -Yvonne de la Vega
I read an article talking
Submitted by cryptomnesiac on
I read an article talking about the city entertaining xeriscaping (or at least their having the opportunity to do so). If the lawn is coming back on its own, then the mayor is even more of a lying asshole—but, maybe those plants in the big pots that got sat on could be replaced with more native ones?
I don't personally care about this that much, considering how wasteful the city was in tax dollars in evicting us, and cavalier it was in the "disposal" (i.e. destruction) of our property, but it's a decent thing to do. Some regular people surely walked by and didn't much like the scene, and who weren't just crying big soppy crocodile tears over The Majestic Fig Trees™ like hack press and city officials, so I suppose we owe it to them.
Mike C.
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I had asked for grass seed in
Submitted by lizsavage on
I had asked for grass seed in the very beginning after the first raid. I was told some had been dropped off at city hall, I wonder by who it was received, and where it is now. It was not dropped off to the occupation, but to city hall itself... I asked that it be dropped to the DPW office in city hall.
My words represent myself and not Occupy Los Angeles. @lizsavage on Twitter
grass seed?
Submitted by Yvonne de la Vega on
I wonder if they used it because like i said (above) the grass is indeed greener on the other side (of the new gross fence at City Hall, where people get arrested for hanging ballons)
"The Revolution will not be televised, it will be on Youtube." -Yvonne de la Vega
This is a great idea and a positive one
Submitted by cleansweeper on
I think that anything we can do to give a positive face to our movement is beneficial to us and the rest of the 99%. We need to find ways to show that we are more than just camping out and speaking out. Positive action is hard to deny or disrupt.
We do the right thing because it is the right thing to do!
We were kicked out
Submitted by Doug S on
We were kicked out after a unanimous endorsement by the city council. after a time they did not really want to hear what we had to say, and they were under intense pressure from their 1% supporters to shoo away our unpleasant presence. So they chose not to keep their word to us. the existing 'grass' was a poor mixture of some very old and tired lawn grasses and voluntary 'weeds' which emerge from the neglect of a lawn. The whole notion that our presence was damaging the landacping was b.s., as evidenced by the fact that it all is coming back better than before. and you want to ask a nonprofit to replant it as a show of our goodness, or of our naivete?? or maybe as a thank you for not pepper spraying us? they have the money for landscaping, not us. let the nonprofits attend to the needy instead.
guess shoes
Submitted by ljuanzi on
The guess shoes new idea for the window display of the brand's
guess sale store in Paris has managed to make quite an impression.
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Submitted by Yvonne de la Vega on
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GUESS SHOES SHAME ON YOUS THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHIJNG
heh heh
"The Revolution will not be televised, it will be on Youtube." -Yvonne de la Vega
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