Garden In The Ghetto | POOR Magazine

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2000-01-01 12:00 AM

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Editors Note: As a poor people led/indigenous people led organization practicing thrival & survival strategies By Any Means Necessary! while advocating and activating for our brothers and sisters in struggle locally and globally - we honor Matt Robeson's direct action to Take Back The Land stolen from us long ago and now thrown back at us temporarily in the forms of crumbs called Project Housing/Food Stamps and welfare....He is a resistance warrior and an example to us all! -

Scroll down to watch and listen to PNN-Radio and PNN-TV interview with Farmer Matt

by RAM/PNN

Theres a garden in the ghetto on the Sunnydale track

Theres a garden in the ghetto that was grown by Matt

To feed his wife and four kids in fact

You couldn't believe unless you seen it yourself in fact

That is revolutionary, living off the grid

He learned from his grandma as an eight year old kid

Peas, beans and a real pumpkin patch

He has the main one in the front and another in the back

Sunflower seeds in San Francisco

About twenty more things I havent put yet on the list though

Cherries, strawberry and watermelon

Potatoes, lettuce, cabbage, carrots all up in the zone

Did it on his own with Sunnydale dirt

Been growing for five years putting in the work

My honor to have met this proud black man

Yes its time for change and yes we can

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