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Thank you for the music <3

Yes, I love this song, thank you!

welcome y’all! we will start in a few minutes

song is Ella’s Song by Sweet Honey In The Rock

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Madison WI

Charlotte, Minneapolis.

Brooklyn, NY

Hi all. Amity, she/her from San Jose, CA, Ohlone Territory

Hey y'all. Aileen from SF, CA. I'm glad to continue to learn and build housing justice with you all :)

Aracely is on the Spanish line; phone only tonight

Yoselinda from Santa Ana, CA

mai-stella, oakland, ca

Hi I’m Jordan calling from LA and wanting to learn how to aid in combatting gentrification

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Matt from San José, CA

Maria Martinez from East San Jose with SOMOSMayfair and Vecinos Activos group, and I'M here because I want to learn more how can defend my community.

Katie from Sonoma County Tenants Union Santa Rosa CA

Hey All! Kamau/they/RTTC/Lenape Territory (Philly)

Hannah with New Virginia Majority.

Eboni, she/her, RTTC, Atlanta

Steve from San Fran, CA, Housing Rights Committee and Westside Tenants Assoc. Here to learn and listen, Housing Justice for All and Black Lives Matter

Sara from Richmond, CA

Can folks change their chat setting to all panelists and attendees

so that everyone can see y’all’s messages

Thanks

Ann Elise from Madison WI

Jorge, San Gabriel (So Cal), Tenants Together

Dawn (he / him / they) Oakland / occupied Ohlone territory

Right To The City Alliance

Beautiful & powerful! Thank you. “Cannot speak the same language but fight the same old men” hit me.

mourning language

opression

Real history and powerful women/families

mentioned former Portuguese colonies

Please please take your ass over the edge.

Global/radical

So much pride in homelands

“Cannot speak the same language but fight the same old men”same!

when I make decisions on the commission I try to remind myself of the people not just the law and the land

the same fight unites us as if we were family

The same unity and suffer in the world

Commonalities of those who were enslaved and colonized

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zWXTGN7an28bIczPhE11y-gbi4ZMom0GVgLzApWimvE/edit#slide=id.g1d91b7e79d_0_8

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Slide 22

song is Are My Hands Clean by Sweet Honey In The Rock

@Hannah: the song is Ella’s Song by Sweet Honey In The Rock

What is dismantled white supremacy? How the looks like? How equity plays a role to dismantle the racial capitalism?

Super helpful breakdown!

to recognize it, call it out, and do better

It is important to understand it so we can dismantle it

to dismantle them

It is deep programming and we need to throw it out of our heads and hearts, and to see the violence.

to abolish racism, white people need to be on the front lines and be willing to let of the systems that benefit them so that we can all be free

It is a social system that effects us all

white supremacy is a beast. a dying beast is a dangerous beast

to root it out, call it out and stamp it out

I think a lot of liberal white people decry racism but are deeply uncomfortable with acknowledging anti-blackness as a root of racist logics

Because as a non-black person of color not understanding anti-black racism puts me in danger of flattening the impacts of white supremacy in the US as just racism

Porque todos somos importantes y debemos eduacar a nuestras jovenes para poder terminar con el mostruo de la discriminación y la supremacioa blanca

how to spell the tribe?

mashie wampanoag

*mashpee

Here’s the link to the map & we’ll share it in the follow up email too: http://usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=eb6ca76e008543a89349ff2517db47e6#0

thanks

And much of this land has also been subjected to terrible environmental crimes, thinking of land in Northern AZ that was used for mining and then leaving local people sick.

Anti-blackness is an institu

Sorry for that incomplete thought

I understand it to be the reparations promised to enslaved people.

“reparations”

reparations for black folks

promise for emancipated slaves

the amount given as reparations to slaves

was it what happened during reconstruction?

what we are owed.

That was the promise after the civil war

Yes, the "promise" given to folks after the civil war

That was land to be apportioned to the freed slaves.

land redistribution promised during reconstruction

why we need reparations so urgently now

Promise to freed slaves to attempt to have them assimilate into society

Yep. The Constitution not only omitted many peoples but specifically excluded some people such as “merciless Indian savages”

Native Americans weren't considered citizens until 1924.

And couldn’t vote until the 60s

Yes. The wealth is in the land.

mobility by choice, not because you are pushed off the land

Many tribes who have been successful in business have been buying land back into their nations. Which has prompted some politicians to push for policies to limit the amount of land tribes can buy back

link to the video is in the slide show!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zWXTGN7an28bIczPhE11y-gbi4ZMom0GVgLzApWimvE/edit#slide=id.g895ef2a90c_0_1124

"Although indigenous lands account for less than 22 percent of the world's land area, their traditional territories are home to approximately 80 percent of the world's biodiversity." - National Geographic

put your answer in the slides - #42

requirement to ensure large % of publicly held/tax delinquent land go to groups that ensure deep and permanent affordability

yeah in SF folks who lost their homes due to redevelopment never really received restitutions for that. I know folks with certificates of priority for placement in affordable housing who from redevelopment who can’t really use it because the prices even in “affordable” housing is too expensive

Housing in SF is a disastrous situation.

in SF Bay Area black families and others were denied housing and excluded by denying FDA loans. Housing passed down through generations.

Shift local, state and federal budgeting

But $8 Lattes make everything better, right? Gentrification and manifest destiny share a common narrative--the POC on the land aren't using it "right" or "productively."

which can be done through a human rights participatory budgeting where the budgeting process gets opened up to residents to determine where money goes and even how to generate revenue

housing that doesn't fit the neighborhood.

Costa-Hawkins

Gentrification happen because white people "love " culture and therefore want to steal it

Tax breaks to wealthy developers

\What's Costa-Hawkins?

Over-policing

predatory investors

Neglecting neighborhood improvements until property goes down

Neoliberal logics that cities have adopted to up their tax base

White neighborhoods have "character", gentrified neighborhoods didn't have "character"

Studies that justify gentrification as “overall good” for working class communities

buy cheap, remodel and price out

“Beautification” projects

La ciudad no tiene ninguna restriccion a los desarrolladores

Narrative of “development” only way a community can be better…erasing what communities who have historically lived there have build and created

“Civilized” people of color and white moving in for diversity - opportunity of development

historically low income neighborhoods close to downtown become ideal property for downtown professionals and students

gentrification —> the “gentry” the property owning class

also yeah that gentrification is the only way cities develop and grow…this is very much in urban planning programs in all universities - gentrification is bad but there is no other way cities grow - liberal handwringing

Big box shopping in outskirts and killing small neighborhood grocery stores in the older communities

The Spanish word, "aburguesiamiento" says it all!

^^^Yeah I’ve always loved the clarity of “aburguesamiento” the bougiefication of your neighborhood/city/region

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beautification is used as an excuse for the need to bring in money, developers, get rid of “blight” and bring in people who can afford higher rates when there are gardens and shops and murals

It is not in and of itself gentrification

America also has a really messed up view of workers because of our slavery hangover. You're "lazy" if you don't work, but if you need to work for a living you are lesser. Rent seeking behavior is rewarded, but rent paying necessity is punished.

By the myth that "you too" can become wealthy one day!

“You have no soul” - 1492

Definitely the same

YEP

“You have no morals and are lazy” - 2020

YEP

Police are there to control the working class.

Exactly. Robbing people of millions and trillions requires suits, computers, and authority/institutions.

Make the police obsolete

“You are lazy” - are the words of White supremacy and Capitalist who literally stole people to do their work for them

here in Minneapolis - it is no coincidence that George Floyd was murdered in a historically-Black and rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Across from a coffee shop selling $8 lattes. Police will murder to protect white wealth and property

We pay for it by NOT bailing out banks, corporations and oil & gas industry

25% philly's city budget is police and jails

The irony is that police are called public safety. Who the hell ever started a meeting by saying, "Let's create a safe space here. Right over there are the police."

THANKS YA’LL! This was amazing

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

In my city, $91M on police. Pasadena, CA

Co-conspirtors - Land back Crew

Since 9/11, many trillions have spent spent on security. Who has benefitted…the corporations/ruling class.

thank you!!

This was awesome! Thanks all

Thank you! You all were awesome, and thanks for the awesome call!

thank you all powerful women and comrades.

LA is trying to give 3 billion to cops

Thanks you all! Stay safe

Thanks all bye!

thank you bye!

Thank you to all!!!

Thank you.

thank you so much for knowledge and wisdom!

Thank you all so much

thank you!!

Thank you so much! We know it's all connected and we're not going for it!

Thank you!

great job! Spectacular layout of information regarding black AND indigenous. Loved this! And this song is HOT!!!

NAILED IT!

After the dance

@Laura Hinz, that

Great tunes, all the way through!

that

thats right!

song is Land Back by A Tribe Called Red

Thanks!!!!

thank yall- this was fire!!!

Land Back Co Conspiritors

Thank you all

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that was amazing, y'all are brilliant and lights, ans the dj is doin hee thing

^^^That’s all Paige!!!

I love my job 💗💗💗

it was supposed to say, the dj is doing her thing. yes, Paige

Thank you to all the speakers… this was so great!!

Y’all were amazing, thank you comrades

Love you all

Amazing!