GREEN REVOLT AGAINST GREED-Save Manila Seedling Bank
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Time 9:00am

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A CALL TO SAVE MANILA SEEDLING BANK FROM ENVIRONMENTAL PLUNDER

For 36 years, the gardeners of Manila Seedling Bank have provided the people of Metro Manila, the country, and Southeast Asia the materials and tools to build greener communities amidst rapid urbanization.

For 36 years, the Manila Seedling Bank has stood firm in the heart of a polluted Metropolis, with its 380 trees and thousands of plants exhaling fresh air to make our city livable.

Sadly, this enduring urban paradise was recently demolished in the name of corporate greed by the Quezon City Government for the benefit of mall giant Ayala Land’s grand plan of building yet another giant chain of malls. All of its 380 trees, which include endemic flora like the magnificent Palawan cherry, are at risk of being cut. That’s enough trees to inhale the daily smog of Northern EDSA.

Aside from the adverse environmental effects of demolishing the Manila Seedling Bank, the livelihoods of more than a hundred small garden workers were destroyed. While City Hall plans to relocate them in the already green area of Quezon City Memorial Circle, the gardeners assert that the Manila Seedling Bank is a more accessible place for plant buyers for it is located at the busiest road in the Metro. Through their green businesses that promote environmental protection, they have built homes and sent their children to school.

Needless to say, what the gardeners of Manila Seedling Bank have done to us for the past 36 years is not only business or trade but service. The service they offer is by using their skill and knowledge by being stewards of nature–developing and defending her for the greater good of humanity.

However, nature’s stewards have been attacked by a bunch of greedy people who worship nothing but money. Ayala Land plans to spend P15 billion of its money to destroy nature and build moneymaking megastructures that would only cause unnecessary traffic, torrid heat, congestion, and flooding in North EDSA. And to add insult to injury, Mayor Herbert Bautista’s hired demolition men and cops looted the plants and merchandisers like hungry predators on the loose.

The billions of pesos Ayala plans to spend to replace Manila Seedling Bank with giant malls, while privately-owned, come not from the family’s hard work but from the labor of their underpaid and contractual workers. Money generated from the work of thousands but is used to destroy nature and the lives of thousands more. This is PLUNDER bigger than Napoles.

On February 8, 2014, we shall give back to the humble and hardworking gardeners of Manila Seedling Bank. We shall rally by the thousands to register our stand against corporate greed and corruption!

If the courts of government will not listen to the burning call of the people for environmental protection, we shall file a P15 billion environmental PLUNDER suit against Ayala Land and Quezon City Hall before the Court of Nature.

We call on all nature-loving citizens on February 8, 2014, at 9:00 AM to start the GREEN REVOLT AGAINST GREED to STOP the demolition and unlawful eviction of Manila Seedling Bank in EDSA-Quezon Avenue. Kindly click “Going” and comment here for your commitment.

GREEN, NOT GREED! SAVE MANILA SEEDLING BANK NOW!

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