CFGN Summer Gathering 2015
Organiclea, Hawkwood plant nursery, 115 Hawkwood Crescent, Chingford, E4 7UH (Directions here)
Sunday 28th June
12-4pm
For more information/questions email cfgn@riseup.net
www.cfgn.org.uk
www.organiclea.org.uk
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by Mama D, Community Centred Knowledge @IndigenousKnow
I am a mother and, in relative terms, recently sourced from the African continent. As a woman, and an African, I am present, but without voice. Most of the time, unseen and unheard. Yet, my essential being represents that which gives, over eternities, but remains unacknowledged. It is also that for which there is no gratitude shown. Just like the soil we walk upon. Such things have consequences.
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