Grassroots Economic Organizing

Community Land Trusts: A Model for Reparations?

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September 26, 2019

400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about affordable property put into Black hands, in perpetuity? Could community land trusts be one way of making repairs? A lawyer, a policy advocate and an organizer with homeless New Yorkers, explain what’s possible, and what’s being done.

Featured Guests: Executive Director of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative Catherine Albisa

Director of the Center For Gender Sexuality & Law at Columbia University Professor Katherine Franke

Senior Organizer for Picture the Homeless Jaritza Geigel

 

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The Laura Flanders Show is a TV and radio program that seeks to raise radical spirits by interviewing forward-thinking people who have real experience of shifting power, from the few to the many, in the worlds of arts, entrepreneurship and politics.

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