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Remaking the Economy: Who Will Own the Land?

Steve Dubb and Nonprofit Quarterly
December 18, 2018

 

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If you are interested in racial and economic equity—in community development, rural development, food security, the environment, and a host of other issues—you should understand the basics of land justice.

If you want to rebuild the economy, it is hard to ignore the importance of the land. It is where we grow our food, build our homes, gather for recreation, and live our lives. Ownership of land is also highly concentrated. Real estate, in fact, has been a key means by which the nation’s vast economic and racial wealth gaps have been reinforced and widened. It must also be acknowledged that, except for the two percent of the US population who are Native American, we all live on what is ultimately stolen land.

Fortunately, nonprofit and movement activists in recent decades have devised a growing range of strategies to counteract and reverse the trend toward further concentration of land ownership. To help you explore the practical range of options your organizations can consider, this second webinar in NPQ’s “Remaking the Economy” series explores these issues. The 90-minute webinar, one in a seven-part series on nonprofits’ roles in remaking the economy, connects you with experts whose knowledge is grounded in the field to discuss the strengths and challenges inherent in pursuing various practical, community-based, democratic land ownership and stewardship strategies.

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The webinar begins with an interview with Nick Tilsen, a cofounder of Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation on Lakota land in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and now a cofounder of a new organization called the NDN Collective that works with Native Americans across the country.

The interview is followed by a panel discussion that includes Tamara Jones, executive director of the Southeastern African American Farmers’ Organic Network (SAAFON); Diane Linn, executive director of Proud Group community land trust in Portland, Oregon; Neil Thapar, Farm and Food Program lead for the Sustainable Economies Law Center in Oakland, California; and Neil’s Oakland colleague, Gregory Jackson, partnerships director at the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (East Bay PREC).

In this webinar, you’ll learn about a wide range of issues including land recovery efforts in the Black Belt of the South, the role of community land trusts in preserving both affordable housing and farmland, and different mechanisms, including land cooperatives, by which land can be held in common, enabling there to be a much more equitable distribution of land than our country has presently.

This webinar explores:

  • What are core principles that can guide nonprofits in their approaches to the ownership and stewardship of land?
  • How do key tools that promote democratic ownership of land, such as community land trusts and land cooperatives, work?
  • What is required to decolonize wealth and ownership of the land?
  • What are points of leverage available to nonprofits and movement leaders?
  • What is the ecosystem that helps nonprofit land strategies to succeed?
  • What shifts in thinking, practice, and culture are required?

You can also access Session 1 of this series here. You can sign up to be notified about additional webinars in NPQ’s “Remaking the Economy” series here.

About the author
Steve Dubb

Steve Dubb is senior editor of economic justice at NPQ, where he writes articles (including NPQ’s Economy Remix column), moderates Remaking the Economy webinars, and works to cultivate voices from the field and help them reach a broader audience. In particular, he is always looking for stories that illustrate ways to build a more just economy—whether from the labor movement or from cooperatives and other forms of solidarity economy organizing—as well as articles that offer thoughtful and incisive critiques of capitalism. Prior to coming to NPQ in 2017, Steve worked with cooperatives and nonprofits for over two decades, including twelve years at The Democracy Collaborative and three years as executive director of NASCO (North American Students of Cooperation). In his work, Steve has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous reports; participated in and facilitated learning cohorts; designed community building strategies; and helped build the field of community wealth building. Most recently, Steve coedited (with Raymond Foxworth) Invisible No More: Voices from Native America (Island Press, 2023). Steve is also the lead author of Building Wealth: The Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems (Aspen 2005) and coauthor (with Rita Hodges) of The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads, published by MSU Press in 2012. In 2016, Steve curated and authored Conversations on Community Wealth Building, a collection of interviews of community builders that Steve had conducted over the previous decade.

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