Native Women Reclaim Land Plot by Plot

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December 18, 2018 a project of ServiceSpace We are all human beings on this land. We need to learn how to live in reciprocity together. - Corrina Gould - Native Women Reclaim Land Plot by Plot In the San Francisco Bay Area, demand for land seems endless. Property values are sky-high, rents are backbreaking, and people just keep coming. Over 2 million more are expected to settle here by 2040. Today's land rush is nothing new. For more than 200 years, there has been a run on Bay Area real estate a relentless wave of colonization, then suburbanization and now gentrification that left the Ohlone, the Bay Area's first people, landless. Corrina Gould, a Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone leader and her partner in crime Johnella LaRose, who is Shoshone-Bannock and Carrizo; founded the Sogorea Te Land Trust in 2012 to reclaim Ohlone land in the Bay Area. { read more } Submitted by: Pancho Ramos Sterile Be The Change Consider ways you too can "use the master's tools to disantle the master's house". It might be contributing the interest from a bank account to a micro-lending group, "gifting" the use of your private property to someone, or using the income from a retirement or investment account to fund your own private volunteer work. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News What It Means to Hold Space & 8 Tips to Do it Well This Foster Father Takes in Only Terminally Ill Children People Helped You Whether You Knew It Or Not Why Be Kind? To Keep Company With Oneself Last Lecture Life is the Network Not the Self The Life of Death DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,420 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More