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Plough Shares: Gardening's Radical Edge

[6 February 2008]

by Olly Zanetti

Can political activism be achieved with a trowel and some bulbs? For Guerrilla Gardeners, the act of urban planting is more than beautification, it's a reclamation of public space that challenges concepts of municipal ownership.

You can see what guerrilla gardeners are up to in Los Angeles at LAguerrillagardening.org

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