Native Women Reclaim Land Plot by Plot

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December 18, 2018

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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.

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