From: Karryn Olson-Ramanujan <karrynolson AT gmail.com>
To: IC Sustainability Friends <sustainabilty AT icsun.ithaca.edu>, Marian Brown <mbrown AT wells.edu>, Karryn Olson-Ramanujan <kolson AT ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us>, fingerlakespermaculture AT lists.ibiblio.org, Carol Hansen <chansen AT ithaca.edu>
Subject: PLEASE SHARE WIDELY Occupy the Farm film at Cinemapolis May 19, 7pm, with Q&A
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 08:12:14 -0400
Occupy the Farm, a film by Todd Darling, tells the
story of 200 urban farmers who walk onto a publicly owned research farm
and plant it with two acres of crops in order to save the land from
becoming a real-estate development.
The film captures an
intense conflict over one piece of land. Compelling characters on both
sides of the battle create a remarkable narrative in which community
members employ an ingenious strategy to confront a powerful institution
in the effort to preserve public land for urban farming.
From
preparing the soil to police raids, from lawsuits to overflowing
harvests, Occupy the Farm reveals a determined community responding with
a direct action to address a major social need: healthy food and access to public land.
Join us on May 19th at Cinemapolis at 7:00 pm. There will be speakers from our community and lots of smiling faces.
The film will be introduced by Rafael Aponte, Farmer and owner of Rocky
Acres Community Farm and who represents Groundswell and their Youth
Farm Project For the after-screening Q&A Rafael will be joined by Ann Piombino, the Youth Farm Manager and by Jhakeem Haltom from Ithaca's Congo Square Market
“Riveting from the start”, says the Village Voice’s film critic Ernest
Handy about OCCUPY THE FARM. “It illustrates the staggering extent to
which corporate interests dictate policy and shape scientific research.”
“Sweeps up the viewer in a fast-paced, character-driven narrative,”
says Sarah Burke in her film review of OCCUPY THE FARM in East Bay
Express. “Empowering food for thought,” says Los Angeles Times film critic Michael Rechtsaffen.
The film raises big issues about the public mission of Land Grant
Universities and how it has been - and continues to be undermined by big
agriculture, big food, big pharm...
Please come, watch the film,
and be part of the discussion of how we can work together - campus and
community - to promote the PUBLIC MISSION of our own Land Grant
university here in NY.