Center for Ethical Land Transition

Join us this Wednesday, July 17! Center for Ethical Land Transition will share more about approaches to land justice by sharing two land transition stories. Grounding Justice in the Land is a joint webinar with PolicyLink's Spatial Futures team. More details -- 🌀 As we develop reparative spatial justice strategies that reckon with, repair, and transform the racist foundations of land and housing policies in the United States, we are reminded that it is essential that we understand the centrality of land for Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities. Across the country, and indeed across the world, communities that have faced legacies of dispossession and displacement are growing movements to reshape our relationships to land and create more just spatial futures. In this webinar, we invite you to learn more about the strategies that communities across the country are using to transition land from the speculative market and into community-controlled models of land stewardship and caretaking. 📅 Wed, July 17 🕰 12 - 2pm PST ➡ Register here: https://lnkd.in/g-FnjRbc

Join us tomorrow for a webinar “To Remember and Revere” featuring our Reunion Program. We have invited Yeye Luisah Teish and Kahuna Leilani Birely, co-authors of “On Holy Ground: Commitment and Devotion to Sacred Land,” to join us in conversation on land, sacred sites, and our responsibility to center land. Both Yeye Teish and Leilani grew up within spiritual cultures that survived centuries of oppression. They have maintained reverence for and centering the sacredness of Land within their cosmology and rituals. Yeye Tiesh and Leilani will share personal stories and wisdom around healing our relationship to Sacred Land and each other in these times of ecological crisis. This webinar is free to all. Closed captioning will be enabled. 📅 Jul 11, 2024 10:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) ➡ Register here https://lnkd.in/gnRZdeBf

The Center for Ethical Land Transition would like to invite you to a webinar “To Remember and Revere” featuring our Reunion Program. We have invited Yeye Luisah Tiesh and Kahuna Leilani Birely, co-authors of “On Holy Ground: Commitment and Devotion to Sacred Land,” to join us in conversation on land, sacred sites, and our responsibility to center land. Both Yeye Tiesh and Leilani grew up within spiritual cultures that survived centuries of oppression. They have maintained reverence for and centering the sacredness of Land within their cosmology and rituals. Yeye Tiesh and Leilani will share personal stories and wisdom around healing our relationship to Sacred Land and each other in these times of ecological crisis. This webinar is free to all. Closed captioning will be enabled. 📅 Jul 11, 2024 10:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) ➡ Register here https://lnkd.in/gnRZdeBf

We're humbled to join Kalliopeia Foundation's four-part webinar series "Land Reunion: Stories of Reconnecting to a Sacred Earth." Tomorrow, we'll be in conversation with The Farmers Land Trust, DETROIT BLACK COMMUNITY FOOD SECURITY NETWORK INC, and Earth Law Center. Join us Tues, April 9 at 10am PST! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gT3M2FwU This series explores the experiences and meaning of land access, land back, and land rematriation at this moment in time. The sessions feature leaders in the Kalliopeia Foundation ecosystem sharing stories of reconnection, remembrance, and cultural renewal in the context of land reunion.

For a few years, Center for Ethical Land Transition has been exploring ways to decommodify, rematriate, and increase accessibility to land for Indigenous communities, Black communities, and systemically oppressed communities. We’re humbled to share more about what we’re up to with the LinkedIn sphere 🌐 As we have all witnessed, the last few years have seen an upswell of movements that seek to create justice and balance. Humanity is grappling with a just transition, trying to move from extractive systems to cooperative, harmonious systems. At the literal and physical base of our relations and systems is Land. How we recover, as a species, from centuries of dominance over the natural world (and each other) is at the crux of our intersectional ecological and social crises. At the Center for Ethical Land Transition, we are dedicated to supporting the multi-generational endeavor through which Land brings us together, place by place, to heal and bring the human species back into balance with our shared home. If society is able to rethink and reorient our relationship to Land, there is opportunity for deep intersectional and interdimensional shifts. We organize our work inside of a compass, which highlight four main areas of focus: 🌱 Coming into Right Relationship with Land: We support land transitions with a focus on repairing relationships. Our practices aim to lessen the harm perpetuated by conventional real estate. We innovate tools and legal approaches in order to support rematriation and cultural reunion. We transform how people view, relate with and hold title to land. 🌲 Title–Holder Relinquishment: We work with title-holders on their journey of relinquishment, which includes programmatic support, materials, and education. Through this, we learn more about the patterns, archetypes, and content needed to support this journey. 🌳 Reunion with Land & Culture: Reunion provides full spectrum support to those in the process of land reunion, navigating inherently oppressive systems and the dynamics that present themselves within land transitions. This includes shared learnings, repair, and culturally relevant support. 🌏 Convening the Ecosystem of Practitioners: Our participation in many land transitions has informed our understanding of the different roles and expertise required to support an ethical land transition. We bring together real estate agents and legal practitioners to share their experiences so that we can have a more robust collective of ethical land transition facilitators. You can read more about us here: https://lnkd.in/gau3bPwR Check out some of our projects here: https://lnkd.in/g6t4duPY

This week, we'll be a part of the We Are All in This Together Symposium hosted by Talking Rivers (https://talkingrivers.org/). This series seeks to reposition environmental stewardship and humanities disciplines within an eco-centric framework. Over three virtual events, Talking Rivers plans to to explore the concepts of land “ownership,” and the importance of honoring nature’s more-than-human guardians. The first event focuses on De-structuring Ownership and features Marina Johnson-Zafiris, Johana Fernanda Sánchez Jaramillo and Cassandra Ferrera of Center for Ethical Land Transition. We'll explore topics including: - shifts away from the transactional nature of our relationship with Land - correlations between the historical roots of Land ownership and our present environmental crisis - connections between the conception of private land ownership and environmental exploitation 📅 Wednesday, Feb 28 at 3:30pm PST / 6:30pm EST on Zoom ➡ Register here: https://lnkd.in/gMJSRjpa We hope to see you there!

We are so excited to share our first annual report, where we share our reflections from 2023 and what’s on the horizon for 2024. Amidst times of grief, we hope that these stories act as reminders of what is possible when we deepen our connection with land and as a result, our relations. We hope that these stories inspire many to find the role they play in the rebalance and the revolution toward a more just world. 2023 represents our first full year of work in service to the land justice movement. As a young non-profit, we are so grateful for the support and collaboration that has made each story shared here possible. You can find the report attached to this post or view it on our website: https://lnkd.in/gvKRcQ4U Thank you for taking the time to read what we’ve been up to this past year. We also want to thank you for the work you are doing to create a world that is just, equitable, and beautiful. We hope that we can stay connected in the coming seasons. You can visit our website and subscribe to our newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/gCft3kTy If you’d like to collaborate, we’d be thrilled to chat and explore. Please reach out to us at [email protected] May we listen as Land continues to bring us together. In solidarity, Center for Ethical Land Transition Jason Patten, Abi Huff, Neha Sharma, Cassandra Lynn

"A Win for the People, the Salmon, and the Web of Life: How the Winnemem Wintu Reclaimed 1100 Acres of Ancestral Land" Join us today at 1pm PST for a discussion with Cheif Caleen Sisk and Michael Preston of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, Anne Symens-Bucher of Canticle Farm, Nuns and Nones Land Justice Project, and Cassandra Ferrera of Center for Ethical Land Transition. Register here: https://lnkd.in/deFsyWHd