A guerilla gardener in South Central LA | Ron Finley

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast...

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Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton BastI live in South Central.This is South Central:liquor stores,fast food,vacant lots.So the city planners, they get together and they figurethey're going to change the name South Central to make it represent something else,so they change it to South Los Angeles,like this is going to fix what's really going wrong in the city.This is South Los Angeles. (Laughter)Liquor stores,fast food,vacant lots.Just like 26.5 million other Americans,I live in a food desert,South Central Los Angeles,home of the drive-thru and the drive-by.Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.People are dying from curable diseasesin South Central Los Angeles.For instance, the obesity rate in my neighborhoodis f...