Reminder! 7/17 Webinar: Grounding Justice in the Land

Wednesday, July 17, 2024
12 pm - 2 pm PT / 3 pm - 5 pm ET

Join us this Wednesday for a in partnership with the Center for Ethical Land Transition.

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 (POC) 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 invite you to learn 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.

Join PolicyLink and the to learn more about 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 explores ways to decommodify, rematriate, and increase accessibility to land for Indigenous, Black, and POC communities. 

Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in Spanish and American Sign Language. 

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

In the meantime, we invite you to review PolicyLink’s recent publication to learn more about the critical need for a reparative spatial justice framework in land and housing policy.