Black Commons, Community Land Trusts, and Reparations
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Acquiring more land for CLTs dedicated to African-American cultural use would be a great way to address a colossal historic wrong.
Tag: reparations
Building an Anti-Racist Food Movement
By Sam Siva, Oxford Real Farming Conference
Reparations is about recognising that the wealth and privilege of white people came from the exploitation of black and indigenous people and taking the necessary steps to heal that trauma. That means taking time to understand how you benefit in whatever way from white supremacy.
Farming While Black: Excerpt
By Leah Penniman, Resilience.org
Finally, reparations demands that we release the frontier mentality that plagues progressive spaces. The frontier mentality is the erroneous idea that the way to solve existing problems is to create or grow an initiative led by white people, rather than support existing projects led by front-line communities.
Can Reparations Help us to Re-envision International Development?
By Priya Lukka, Open Democracy
Reparations are important because they provide an alternative vision of what international development could be if these issues were properly taken into account. Although originally defined in terms of active amends to repair a wrong, debates around reparations have grown to include new ways of understanding contemporary problems.
It’s Time to Add Global Justice to XR’s Demands
By Aranyo Aarjan, Red Pepper
As two weeks of International Rebellion get underway, including protests around Westminster and across the UK, it is time to be honest about climate emergency in the Global South and to take an explicitly anti-capitalist stance.
Reparations Towards a More Just and Beautiful World
By Douglass DeCandia, Center for Humans and Nature
In the words of Dr. Maya Angelou, “No one of us can be free until everybody is free.” When we move away from domination by supporting and uplifting those who have been most impacted by the worst of it, we are able to move toward equity. Where there is equity there is balance, and where there is balance all life flourishes.