From: nattyreb
Date: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:54 pm (mailto:nattyreb@gmail.com)
CHECK OUT TAKE BACK THE LAND on NOW (PBS TV) June 2009
Video(s) at http://www.takebacktheland.org[/url]
and SUPPORT THEIR RIGHTEOUS EFFORTS WITH YOUR DONATIONS, THEY ARE MOST DESERVING!
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OBJECTIVES
Take Back the Land pursues three core political objectives:
First, feed and house people. Taking control of land to feed and house those impacted by the crisis of gentrification and low-income housing is the ultimate in public space for public good.
Second, assert our right to control the land in our community. This movement is not fundamentally about homelessness or even housing: it is about land. We contend that the land in the black community is not the domain of wealthy developers or the politicians who do their bidding. The land belongs to the people in the black community. As such, the people have the right to control the land and its uses.
Third, build a new society. Instead of replicating the power and social relationships of the broader society in a smaller setting, we build a new society in which people relate to one another differently and the power to make decisions about the Village is centered on them, not the politicians.
While critics charge we are anti-development, nothing could be further from the truth. However, development is not about buildings, technology and the latest consumer products. Development is fundamentally about human beings. The building of structures without the development of human beings is nothing more than a profit making venture, something not worthy of the social status attached to "development" projects.