largest community garden in the United States. The land was divided up and members of the surrounding neighborhood, a largely Hispanic enclave, were given plots to tend. Decades later, amid warehouses, dirt lots and other signs of urban blight, corn, beans, bananas and papayas flourish. It’s the very model of a successful inner city project.

But trouble is brewing. A shady back-room political deal has given the land—originally seized by the city under eminent domain—back to its original owner. An unapologetic, money-hungry developer, the new landlord immediately sets out to evict the poor subsistence farmers and convert the fertile land into a concrete plot covered in warehouses. The gripping, roller-coaster battle to save the South Central Community Garden from the bulldozers forms the backbone of the film.

The film isYPSILANTI – The suspect in three separate racist vandalism incidents at Eastern Michigan University in fall 2016 and spring 2017 entered guilty pleas today (April 23, 2018) in Washtenaw County Circuit Court to three counts of malicious destruction of property related to the vandalism incidents. The suspect, Eddie Curlin, entered no contest pleas to four charges of identity theft related to the investigation.

During today’s proceedings, when Judge David Swartz asked Curlin if he did the damage to the three buildings in question, Curlin’s response was, “Yes.”

Malicious destruction of property is a misdemeanor under Michigan law. Identity theft is a felony. Judge Swartz scheduled Curlin’s sentencing for May 21, 2018.

The charges stem from incidents that took place in September 2016 at King Hall, in which a hate message was