Resources
This is an in-process list of resources related to Land in Common’s work and values. It is only partial, and we know that there are many other amazing efforts and resources out there. Please let us know what we’re missing: info@landincommon.org. Thank you!
The Land We Live On
- A Map of Native Land. Use this resource to find out whose land you are living on.
Native Organizations & Tribes in (what is now) Maine
- Maine Wabanaki REACH
- Gedakina
- Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective
- Aroostook Band of Micmacs
- Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians
- Penobscot Indian Nation
- Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township
- Passamaquoddy at Sipayik
Other Land Justice (and Related) Efforts Led by Communities of Color in Maine
- Somali Bantu Community Association
- New Roots Cooperative Farm
- Maine African American Farmers Cooperative
- For Us By Us Fund
Farm & Wildland Protection in Maine & New England
- Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust
- Native Land Conservancy
- Agrarian Trust
- Maine Farmland Trust
- Land for Good
- Equity Trust
Community Land Trusts
- Community Land Trusts (Jarred Green, Next Systems Project)
- Community-wealth.org CLT resources
- Center for New Economics CLT resources
- Community Land Trusts Are a Model for Reparations (truthout.org)
- The Problem with Community Land Trusts (jacobin.org) [note: this should be subtitled, “And How We Can Change Them”]
Cooperative Livelihoods
Land Justice Resources
- Monica White, “The Biggest Thing We Forget When Talking About Food Justice: (Yes! Magazine)
- National Black Food and Justice Alliance, “Land Justice is Essential to Food Justice”
- Resources on Land Accumulation & Wealth (google doc)
- Audrea Lim, “How the Green New Deal Can Deliver Land Justice”(Jacobin)
- First Light Learning Journey (resource page)
Racism and Colonialism – General Resources
- White Supremacy & Colonialism readings @ The POC Online Classroom
- Environmental Justice readings @ The POC Online Classroom
Decolonization
- Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society (open access journal)
- Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor” (PDF)
- Land as Pedagogy (Leanne Betasamosake Simpson)
- Land Reparations & Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit (Resource Generation)
- Sacred Instructions book (Sherri Mitchell)
- Shuumi Land Tax (Sogorea Te’ Land Trust)
- Real Rent Duwamish
- Manna-hatta Fund
Reparations
- Movement for Black Lives
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations” (The Atlantic)
- Aaron Goggans, “The Case for Interpersonal Reparations” (WagingNonviolence.org)
- Soul Fire Farm, Reparations Map
National & International Land Justice Movements & Organizations
- Landless Worker’s Movement (MST), Brasil
- Via Campesina, International
- Federation of Southern Cooperatives, USA
- National Black Food and Justice Alliance, USA
- Black Belt Justice Center, USA
- Land Loss Prevention Projects, USA
- Black Family Land Trust, USA
- Land Justice Network, UK
- NYC Community Land Initiative, USA