Guerilla Gardening in Dunbar-Spring

Sunday, March 30, community members and other concerned people built the Ramona-Magon Autonomous Community Garden on 9th Ave at 6th Street in Tucson. This action was taken in part to protest and prevent the construction of a new high-traffic road through downtown, slated to destroy and displace several neighborhood buildings and organizations. The road project, known as Downtown Links, is a subject of much controversy amongst all the neighborhoods affected, including this one, Dunbar-Spring.

A month or so later the city fenced off the whole site, claiming there were toxins in the dirt at the site. shortly thereafter, the city council made a final vote on the road alignment that will smash through the site and cut off the neighborhood from downtown forever.
(see downtownlinks.info for official city information about the project
or rethinkthelink.com for a community opposition site.
)

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items are from between 30 Mar 2008 & 19 Jun 2008.