Juneteenth Reminds Us That Reparations Are Due
By Kevin L. Matthews II, YES! magazine
Juneteenth should be a day of celebration, reflection, and education, but it should also be a reminder that the bill is long overdue.
Tag: reparations
Reparations would shake up American capitalism – and that’s a good thing
By Aaron White, Open Democracy
Paying compensation to the descendants of slaves would not just right a historic wrong, it would transform the US economy for the better
Donations to Black-Led Food and Land Organizations Shift from Charitable Giving to True Reparations
By Ruth Terry, YES! magazine
Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
Diné grassroots sow precedent in clean energy history
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Nicole Horseherder was glad to receive the news of Arizona Public Service Company’s proposed Just and Equitable Transition assistance package to the Navajo Nation.
The Local Case for Reparations
By Charles Marohn, Strong Towns
What form should reparations take? How much should they be? Who should pay them? Who should receive them? How should that transfer be made? What will happen if this is done? Would it really help anyone?
Why we need racial justice in farming
By Josina Calliste, Landworkers Alliance
We need all the support we can get to build this movement locally. In the spirit of “a high tide raises all ships”, racial justice in the progressive farming movement will benefit everyone.
Bridging Social Justice & Community Resilience
By Marissa Mommaerts, Transition US
On June 23rd, 25 Transition leaders from across the country met virtually to share and explore strategies for bridging community resilience and social justice. Our conversation focused on strategies that align with Transition's approach of systemic--yet localized--solutions, and fall into two main categories: healing the damage of systemic racism and building equitable new systems.
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.
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.