🏡 🗣 How do we resist speculative market forces and build a world where housing is truly a human right? Get your radical imagination going at: bit.ly/resistandbuild 🔥🌱🛠
In this series you’ll learn about: 1) The founding of the first community land trust by civil rights organizers 2) The connection between co-ops & squatters movements of the 1970s and 80s 3) Recent organizing wins for CLT’s and co-op housing. (2/10)
"In America, community land trusts have always been rooted in racial equity. Black sharecroppers in the rural South pioneered the model to protect their families from eviction by white owners during the civil rights movement." — Tony Pickett, Grounded Solutions Network. (3/10)
What is a Community Land Trust? CLTs are non-profits that treat land as a public good. Because the land that CLTs own is held in trust and can’t be resold for a profit, the model works to remove land from the speculative market. (4/10)
Last year in the Bay Area, a group of unhoused Black moms started occupying a vacant home owned by a developer. After months of organizing and community eviction defense, Moms 4 Housing secured the sale of the house to the Oakland community land trust. (5/10)
In September 2020, after months of organizing and direct action, the City of Philadelphia agreed to put 50 homes into a community land trust to become permanently affordable housing for unhoused community members. (6/10)
The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) was founded in the midst of New York City’s fiscal crisis in 1973, when racist housing policies and disinvestment led to poor living conditions for communities of color. (7/10)
Last year, 38 families in a Minneapolis apartment complex banded together to buy their buildings when threatened with eviction by a negligent landlord. After years organizing, legal action, & rent striking, the tenants secured permanent, collective ownership of their homes.(8/10)
Despite living in one of the most gentrified areas of New York City, my family has been able to stay because we own our building as a limited equity cooperative. -- Francisco Pérez, Center for Popular Economics (9/10)
How will we reclaim our power?
🏥 Community-Controlled Health Care
🏡 Housing as a Human Right
🌻Just Transition and Climate Justice
💸Regenerative Finance
⛰️Land Back & Indigenous Sovereignty
In this series you’ll learn about: 1) The history of divest/reinvest movements 2) Public banking 3) Non-extractive and cooperative finance
(2/10)
"When the playing field is shifted and resources are governed by institutions that we can trust, there are huge amounts of potential for communities to thrive and that is a key part of the world we are trying to build.”
— Dom Hosack, Earthbound Building & CJA (3/10)
A dig, burn & dump economy based on extracting natural & human resources faster than we can regenerate will eventually come to an end — either through collapse or through our intentional re-organization. Transition is inevitable. Justice is not.❤️🔥
How can we build community-controlled health infrastructure that is safe, free and accessible to all? 🏥 🗣 Get your radical imagination going at: bit.ly/resistandbuild 🔥🌱🛠
COVID-19 has made it clearer than ever that the current health care infrastructure is racist, classist, ableist, and criminally inadequate. Frontline communities have a longstanding history of resisting this system by building community-controlled alternatives in its place.
(3/4) Alternatives where frontline, BIPOC communities receive the quality care they need. Alternatives where disabled, chronically ill, and immuno-compromised folks are not disposable, but whose lives are centered and held sacred.
It’s time to abandon the dirty, dangerous myth of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS):
💥Stop subsidizing CCS.
💥Stop permitting CCS.
💥Stop using CCS to justify climate inaction.
On behalf of our millions of members and supporters across the US & Canada, we call on policymakers to recognize that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is NOT a climate solution. It is a dangerous distraction driven by the same big polluters who created the #ClimateEmergency.
CCS is unnecessary. Renewable energy sources like solar and wind are cheaper and cleaner than fossil fuels. CCS just makes dirty energy more expensive and more energy-intensive.
(1/14) “We are seeing that no one else is going to fight for youth of color like youth of color. We don't need people to speak on behalf of us when we can speak for ourselves”.
(2/14) Meet Nyiesha Mallet, a youth activist at @UPROSE in Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community based organization whose mission is based in climate and community justice for Black and Brown folks.
(3/14) Introduced to @UPROSE at the age of 14, Nyiesha found herself in the midst of a #ClimateJustice boom that was in full swing.
1/5 It can be difficult to keep up with the ever-changing world of #ClimateSolutions, and not all “solutions” are inherently equitable or just. Fortunately, we’ve identified four straight-forward questions that can help you separate false solutions from the real deal:
2/5 Who makes the decisions?
Those closest to the problems know the most about what the solutions need to look like. For any climate solution to work for Indigenous peoples, communities of color, and working class communities, it must embody the practice of self-determination.
3/5 Who benefits?
The climate crisis is ecological, but it has its roots in systemic inequity that is both racial and economic. To address these root causes, authentic solutions must flip the existing dynamics around racial injustice, wealth extraction, and labor exploitation.