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Get your low-fat organic popcorn ready: Whole Foods to hold community meeting in Jamaica Plain
By adamg on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 7:23am
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council reports Whole Foods will hold a "town hall meeting" to "talk about their new JP store and to address community concerns and expectations" on June 2 at the Curley School, 489 Centre St. Starts at 6 p.m.
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*sigh*
and thats all I have to say..
This will be a
This will be a complete waste of time.
cue embarassment at how my "community" will react in 3..2...
Just great. The meeting will be informative, if all the idiotic 20-somethings will let them speak between shouts of how Whole Foods is the devil incarnate, murders babies, rapes our women, etc.
Yawn
I love JP's fake problems.
Real Problems
So true! And there ARE problems that could be addressed. But instead they're heated up over a grocery store? It is so ridiculous it's hard to even be that angry about it any longer.
Wouldn't it be cool if some people who really do get it organized a counter-protest outside a rent-to-own furniture store or a check cashing place in the neighborhood? I know it's on some people's minds as I keep hearing about the idea.
There are so many important
There are so many important issues that these folks should be working on. The current cast of characters (who are they, why don't we know their names?)should work on some real problems. And Chang Diaz and the Mayor shouldn't be supporting these shadow organizations but those who are really working to improve Hyde Square like the Main Streets.
15% Activists.
I like to call these folks 15% activists.. They'll plow home for or an against one issue they are against, but get them to rally together for a common cause that doesn't really effect them, forget it.
Here's prime example, people are getting all upset over a grocery store when there's people STARVING and HOMELESS right in JP. But you try to collect $ or donations to help these folks, and forget it, people can't be bothered.
Yet people are getting upset over a supermarket? Come on folks, I think your community has bigger issues than a 'supermarket'. Once again, I'll repeat, Whole Foods has done nothing but go out its way to be accommodating (except just not opening a store there).. far more than any other supermarket chain would do. Do you think Shaw's would have saved the original footprint? Hell no, they would have leveled it and put up a new hideous structure, and not given the community any input. (and any flak about the store not opening or not being build because of "some scabby hippy neighborhood group" would result in the JPNC fight some of the more powerful Unions in boston.. and well, I would wish them the best of luck on that /sarcasm)
Rather than fight a supermarket, and say you're helping fight "gentrification" to "keep JP affordable" in the process. How about you work with Ms Chang-Diaz and Mumbles on initiating low income housing projects. OR organize a "support JP day" where its advertised to patronize your local JP business. OR something GOOD for everyone. Rather than fight tooth and nail to a bitter end..
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sheesh.
Ignore
Ignore any Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council reports that mention the phrase, "community concerns."
They are making this stuff up. I'll wait for the actual meeting notice from Whole Foods.
I have mixed feelings. For
I have mixed feelings. For the past few weeks, frankly I've been going through JP/Whole Foods circus withdrawal. I reveled the photo of the tall, let's say passionate olde man lecturing toe two twenty-somethings at Whole Food headquarters. I sang along with YouTube video that falsely claimed, "JP United, we won't be divided"