Grounding Justice in the Land: Strategies for Advancing Reparative Spatial Justice
July 17, 2024
12 pm PT / 3 pm ET
Verisón en Español
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As we develop reparative spatial justice strategies that reckon with, repair, and transform the racist foundations of land and housing policies in the United States, we are reminded that it is essential that we understand the centrality of land for Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities. Across the country, and indeed across the world, communities that have faced legacies of dispossession and displacement are growing movements to reshape our relationships to land and create more just spatial futures. In this webinar, we learned more about the strategies that communities across the country are using to transition land from the speculative market and into community-controlled models of land stewardship and caretaking.
PolicyLink and the Center for Ethical Land Transition held a webinar to discuss how communities, funders, and title-holders can work to transition land out into collective stewardship, so that we may all deepen our relationships to land and upend the logics of dispossession that underpin our property system. Drawing on the experiences of working in conventional real estate, land justice, and living and working in community, the Center for Ethical Land Transition discussed ways to decommodify, rematriate, and increase accessibility to land for Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities.
Panelists:
- Rasheedah Phillips, PolicyLink
- Tina Grandinetti, PolicyLink
- Neha Sharma, Center for Ethical Land Transition
- Cassandra Ferrera, Center for Ethical Land Transition
- Abi Huff, Center for Ethical Land Transition
