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.

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 (thruthout.org)
• The Problem with Community Land Trusts (jacobin.org) [note: this should be subtitled, “And Why We Need to Change Them”]

Cooperative Livelihoods

• Cooperative Development Institute
• Cooperative Maine Business Alliance
• Cooperative Fund of New England

Farm & Wildland Protection in Maine & New England

• Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust
• Agrarian Trust
• Maine Farmland Trust
• Land for Good
• Equity Trust

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)

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

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