Resistance is Fertile : Melbourne Indymedia

On Tuesday 12th November a punnet of fresh gardeners from Melbourne and interstate created a new vegetable garden in the Floral Clock opposite the National Gallery of Victoria. The new community garden space has been planted with beans, tomatoes, lettuce, sun flowers and a variety of different herbs for community consumption, as well as a large floral display saying "STOP G20".

Guerilla Gardeners plant fruit and vegetables in public spaces, challenging assumptions of private ownership, providing a local source of organic food, and building community. Industrial agriculture swallows 67% of Australia's water usage with households only accounting for 9%. The industrial nature of large-scale agriculture and the shipping and transport necessary to get goods to population centres accounts for nearly 20% of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Guerilla Gardening group are are part of the mobilisation against the Group of 20 (G20), meeting in Melbourne on the 17-19th November. The G20 is a forum representing 20 of the largest industrial nations meeting to discuss growth and economic development. Their aim, of constant economic growth fueled by oil and coal consumption, drastically opposes community needs such as environmental protection, workers rights and food localisation. Community gardens put control of food into the hands of communities, rather than relying upon fossil fueled agriculture, which uses harmful chemicals and lots of water.

For more information about the G20 see http://www.stopg20.org.

Hey, like, i like, totally saw you spunks, and like, youse all looked like, totaly hot and shit...
I'm, like, totally looking to be recruited eh...

Don't mess with Mr Inbetween - good on youse for doing something to an icon and by not ripping it out like the AIDS activists did a decade ago you will find the media have a hard tiem putting a negative spin on your action.
Well done one round to our side I reckon
Alas the Game will get more contested by weeks end.
Still the only adventure left is the abolition of the society which has abolished all adventure as they say in the chiasmatic classics...

Imaginative direct action is not only fun
but unites individual and collective,
theory and practice.
Food security for all - not just the rich.
Go Better Homes & Gardens Team !

hey Mateys-- Hope you get some good actions going, stay outta the way of those police horses and batons.

I am sure Phil and Johnny are just waiting to demonize you.

xo,
yer friend in da belly o' the beast

DANIEL ROLKE
Aha! Den berömde DANIEL ROLKE !!

Nej, han är knappast känd för varken sansad diskussionston eller god smak. Ni ser ju själva ovan vad HAN är kapabel till.
Vi som har haft med honom att göra tidigare har fått utstå det där under många år nu. Vore en lättnad att bli av med.

usch! Det kan bara finnas en enda person av din kaliber, "Maestro".
DET ÄR DU SOM ÄR DANIEL ROLKE! Erkänn! (Det innebär nämligen med att vi kan avfärda allt du hittills har skrivit med att det är ett psykfall som har skrivit det.)

I knew one man couldn't produce all that material ... F Bacon ay! deep.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean when you assert that 'guerrilla gardening' "challenges assumptions of private ownership". How does it do that, exactly? You say that "community gardens put control of food into the hands of communities" but who is 'the community'? Who decides to work in the garden? Will those people be remunerated? And who decides on the distribution of the food that comes from the garden?

And here's what it looks like...

what do you mean it doesnt work?

cant people do sumthing just because its nice?

mabey im just a hopeless romantic but i think planting flowers against corprate giants is a very very pretty idea and it inspires me

sorry bout spelling

Daniel, the way that I read the article is that the author is asserting that 'guerrilla gardening' is a real alternative to the current system or private ownership of agriculture; that guerrilla gardening "challenges assumptions of private ownership". This is ridiculous as the socialization of anything is a bad idea, particularly when it it is something essential for our subsistence.

You asked "what do you mean it doesnt work?" It doesn't work for a number of reasons, some of which I posed in my original post.