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The Projector is continually searching for new content and new points of view. If you've got something to say, an opinion or interesting story from on or off campus, or illustrations or photos, contact one of our editors with your idea. See your name in print! Contact The Projector today. news 3 10.08.2007 Guerrilla Gardening: Graffiti with Nature Karen Kornelsen A guerrilla gardening group located in the east side [email protected] of Vancouver, BC has forever changed an entire neigh- bourhood with their gardening. This part of Vancouver Guerrilla gardening is developing and evolving across has the highest rate of HIV in Canada and most people the country. Essentially, it involves gardening in public that live in this area are either homeless, drug addicted spaces with or without permission. It has also been or just got out of prison. The group found a fenced-off referred to as graffiti with nature and vandalizing with lot in this neighbourhood littered with needles, con- plants. doms and trash and decided to start planting. David Tracey is an environmental designer and When the property-owner, a business man in a journalist based out of Vancouver, BC. His book, Toronto, found out what was happening on his property Guerrilla Gardening: A Manuelfesto, just recently came he was incredibly put off. After learning what these out and it is changing the way some people see our people were actually trying to do, he became genuinely urban centres. He says there is a definite and major interested. He let them continue working with the land crisis going on right now and it's affecting the entire as long as they were willing to agree to leave when he planet—people need to realize the significance of our wanted them to, and had to sign onto an insurance individual actions. plan. The difference guerrilla gardening made in this "The idea that we are now an urban species is crucial neighbourhood was incredible. Eighty crates of food for us to accept. We have gone from nomads to hunter/ were produced in just one year. Those crops were given gatherers to farmers to the state we are in right now. right back to the community into the mouths of the less People need to start seeing our cities as living entities," fortunate and the homeless. "Not only did it feed the he said. people, it made the neighbourhood a beautiful place," According the Guerrilla Gardening, the city of said Tracey. Winnipeg is not just zoning districts and neighbour- Tracey says Winnipeggers also need to realize the hoods, it is a living organism. "We don't understand impact guerrilla gardening could have on our city. "Do tween Portage Ave and Broadway, is turning her neigh- nature anymore; the moon, the stars, weather patterns it with others, strength in numbers! Go out and plant a bourhood into a beautiful place to walk through and ... we are alienated and isolated from our land. People seed and make people think. Let people ask, who made enjoy. "So many areas are so rundown, there is garbage need to connect. We need to go beyond our fenced in it? Is that public space? It makes the urban experience everywhere. People have lost their sense of pride and boundaries into a shared public experience," said Tracey. that much more interesting ... When you plant some- have forgotten how to take care of our neighbourhoods." Guerrilla gardening is not only to make inner thing you are making a statement, take responsibility says Groening. "Downtown Winnipeg needs the help cities greener; it can also be used to plant crops. Tracey for what you plant," he said. This advice is already being of its people to make it come alive again. Gardening is focuses on 10 plants in his book. Most of these plants absorbed by many community gardens in Winnipeg. lost on our generation." Groening not only takes it upon are edible. "I'm definitely a fan of growing things we can Although Laura Groening, a fourth-year biology herself to carry a few seeds in her pocket and deposit major at the U of W, has never graffitied our downtown eat. It's spiritual if you can watch things grow and then them in planters downtown, but also composts, recycles, eat them," Tracey said. He suggests planting potatoes, with plants and flowers, she has definitely noticed the rides her bike to school and is very conscious of doing apple trees and lettuce—all of which are very easy to impact of guerrilla gardening within a block from her her part in helping the environment. plant and nurture. apartment. A community garden on Young Street, be- A Word No One Wants To Say: Confronting Misogyny Sula Johnson [email protected] It was a sunny Monday morning, and I was feeling calm and prepared for the week ahead. Walking down the hallway at school, I passed a young guy wearing a t-shirt that read: "You're all Whores" across it. This phrase confronted and assaulted my very being. This language is hate material. As I stewed about this for a while, I began to think more about how misogyny is accepted in pop culture and even branded on people's t-shirts. "Women have made it," is what we keep hearing. Apparently, the barricades have fallen and we are now all equals. If this is true, why is there vagina hate writ- ten across t-shirts? Why is it acceptable to call women whores and sluts? Why is misogyny a word that no one wants to say? Speaking up to the violence and hatred against women seems to be something people are afraid to do, or even talk about. This is the culture that expects aggression from the male, and passivity from the female. Given Taking Back The Night the nature of patriarchy, it has been necessary for women to focus on extreme cases to confront an issue of misogyny, and have it be seen as relevant. Randi-Leigh Michaniuk a major issue facing women. "It is very important to Women of all backgrounds have experienced vio- [email protected] rally these women together and give them the strength lence, and sexual violence affects the lives of all women. they need," she says. Fear of rape shapes women's behaviour from childhood. "Mother Earth is crying with us." Shannon Sampert, from the Department of Politics It restricts our movement and our freedom. Images and These words were spoken as it began to rain, and at the University of Winnipeg, ended off the speeches slogans of rape are branded and some people are even bonds among various individuals who stood outside of with a powerful line, "Let's walk in solidarity and let's making money from the objectification of women and the Legislative building on September 21 for the annual take back the night." advertising of the word "whore." Take Back the Night march were tightened. The march moved through West Broadway and Winnipeg Police say that there are 19 unsolved sex The words were from Rita Emerson, the executive gathered at Wolseley Family Place. Many people came trade killings in their books. Edmonton and Vancouver director of Mother of Red Nations, who was one of the out from their businesses and homes to wave to the both have task forces specifically to investigate missing many speakers who addressed the crowd gathered to women and men as they walked proudly down the and murdered sex trade workers, but not Winnipeg. express their solidarity with women's struggles. While streets. We have failed to provide an adequate standard of an emotional crowd listened, guest speakers, including Alaya, an active marcher, stood with tears in her protection for Women. Winnipeg's women have been Beverley Jacobs, the President of Native Association of eyes beside the guest speakers. "One of my best friends going missing and we have yet to make the connection Women in Canada, talked about issues facing women was murdered. They say she got hit by a car, but she between the language we use and the women whose today, such as physical and emotional abuse of women, was also beaten to death." she said. Alaya's friend died bodies are being found in the fields. and how the media frames and portrays women around three years ago at the age of 27.