Press release from the Gardens of the Gear
“This morning, Tuesday November 17, 2020, the users of the Nation district tram were surprised to discover the new name of the station, renamed” Jardins de l’Engrenage “.
Symbolic, this action is part of the second national day against the re-intoxication of the world for the “world after” the pandemic: call for land occupations in cities or in peri-urban areas for projects food crops AND a call to take action against places, buildings or infrastructures that are deeply harmful to the environment that must be shut down.
For the record, the first day against the re-intoxication of the world took place on June 17, 2020 and saw several hundred people open the “Gardens of the Gear” on the wasteland located avenue de Langres in Dijon to transform it into a collective garden and a place for walks and meetings.
Supported by the association of the “Friends of the Gear Gardens”, the occupation of the land owned by the City of Dijon, common for the benefit of all the people of Dijon, sold without any consultation with SAS Ghitti, has been the subject of a court decision for expulsion from 20 November.
In the middle of a district deeply marked by urbanization in recent years, and lacking meeting places, this occupation aims to build a form of life full of meaning and which may be more desirable than one too subject to the needs of the market.
Link with nature for the youngest, opportunity to exchange ideas, meeting between neighbors: these are some of the benefits of the Jardins de l’Engrenage in just 5 months.
The occupying or passing gardeners have sowed, planted, weeded and watered for 5 months. And the earth gives them back good: tomatoes, salads, beans, potatoes are produced on this piece of land, yet declared infertile by their detractors.
The trees and vegetables are rooted and won’t go away!
The collective, joined every day by more and more sympathetic residents, attached to this green space, promotes by its actions the protection of nature in the city.
Unlike the City of Dijon, which plans to attack defenseless beans and spinach for the second time.
Through a petition, several hundred inhabitants of the Dijon agglomeration already support this alternative project and ask to engage in dialogue with the City of Dijon to finally achieve a real consultation of the inhabitants on the development of this area. .
During confinement, it is allowed to come for a walk in the Gardens of the Gear.
The struggle for the preservation of nature is everyone’s business. “
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