For hundreds of years Black, Indigenous, other People of Color, Poor people, Immigrants, 2SLGBTQIA + people, Women, Neurodivergent people, Differently abled people and others have been brutally and systematically oppressed. Due to this oppression that is still systemically intact, there are major equity disparities between the large spectrums of privileged and marginalized folks. For those of us who consider ourselves to hold privilege I believe it is important to embrace our responsibility for the power that we hold. I consider myself to hold more power than many in this system as well as less than many. With my white, able bodied, middle class privilege and my queer, neurodivergent experience I am committed to the work of unlearning the racist, classist, ableist, homophobic, capitalist systems that are ingrained into me, dismantling these systems, learning transformative justice, co-creating educational opportunities around these topics for and with other folks in my community, supporting the Land Back and Reparations movements, supporting land based liberation projects, and seeking collective liberation and abundance.
“As a direct result of redlining and other forms of systemic discrimination, WHITE FAMILIES ON AVERAGE POSSESS SIX TIMES THE WEALTH OF BLACK FAMILIES, a disparity which has worsened over time. Additionally, WHILE 73% OF WHITE HOUSEHOLDS OWN THEIR HOME, ONLY 45% OF BLACK HOUSEHOLDS OWN THEIR HOMES.” Reparations Tool Kit
Amazing projects and organizations to give to:
Vibrant Earth Collective www.vibrantearthcollective.com @vibrantearthcollective
Black In Boone https://www.facebook.com/BlackInBoone/ @blackinboone
Medicine Bowl https://medicinebowl.org/ “Land based strategy for liberation” In the NC Mountains @medicine_bowl
Kindred Seedlings -LaShauna Austria https://kindredseedlingsfarm.square.site/ “Inspired by the lack of Black, woman representation in the Alamance County farming industry, LaShauna began her own business in the dining room of her own home.” @kindredseedlings
https://earthseedlandcoop.org/ “We are Earthseed Land Collective! Our mission is to remember and reimagine our relationship to ourselves, each other and the land in pursuit and practice of collective liberation.” @earthseedcollective
LatinxEd.org “Our mission is to invest in Latinx leadership and expand educational equity and opportunity in North Carolina.” @latinxeducation
Landback.org by Krystal Two Bulls
The Bail Project https://bailproject.org/ @bailproject
The Break Your Chains Project https://thebycproject.org/ @bycproject
The Thrive Network https://www.thrivenetwork.org/ @thriveeastbay
Stop Line 3 https://www.stopline3.org/
Konda Mason’s Jubilee Justice https://www.jubileejustice.org/our-mission “We support Black farming communities through new models of regenerative farming, cooperative ownership and access to new markets. In conjunction with our supporting organization, Potlikker Capital, we supply reparative capital and legal services. ‘Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.’ -Malcom X Our Journeys Program convenes transformative gatherings and centers discussions around the defining issues of America on Land, Race, Money and Spirit.” @jubileejustice
https://ndncollective.org/ NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change, we are creating sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms. @ndncollective
https://www.ekvn-yefolecv.org/ Ekvn-Yefolecv (ee-gun yee-full-lee-juh) is an intentional ecovillage community of Indigenous Maskoke persons who, after 180 years of having been forcibly removed from traditional homelands – in what is commonly/colonially known as Alabama – have returned for the purpose of practicing linguistic, cultural and ecological sustainability.
Tribes today with members who’s homelands are the North Carolina High Country:
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (Cherokee North Carolina) https://visitcherokeenc.com/eastern-band-of-the-cherokee/
https://www.srbeucheetribe.org/ Savannah River Valley Euchee Tribe (Savannah Georgia) https://www.srbeucheetribe.org/5-burial-grounds/
Mvskoke Nation (Now in Oklahoma) www.muscogeenation.com/
Poarch Band of Creek Indians (now in Alabama) https://pci-nsn.gov/wordpress/
Cherokee Nation (Now in Oklahoma) https://www.cherokee.org/
Other Resources:
Whose land am I on? https://native-land.ca/