Thoughts on Reclaiming Space as Resistance from Earth First! Newswire Photo Courtesy of the Toledo Blade We all talk about the strength which lies inside the roots of the flower emerging from cracks in the concrete, perseverance seethes in her core, truly. While our acts of resistance via catapulting our bodies into trees, in front of bulldozers, or onto the streets—screaming with dozens of others—does much to assert our ideology and desires in many realms—I find it more than worthwhile to acknowledge all those others who are also actively responding to oppression in all forms imposed on us by capitalism via creating alternative spaces, reoccupying land, or by generally taking back skills we’ve lost as urbanites and empowering themselves to create a world, presently, in which they’d like to see and share. And then there’s this: Poised right in between a budding middle-class district and a neighborhood with a lower socio-economic status sits the Collingwood Garden in Toledo, Ohio. Photo Courtesy from the Toledo Blade Like this:
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