Poor People Help “Rich” People redistribute stolen Inherited and Hoarded Wealth Across Mama Earth

p(Photos by Noe Serfaty Peter Menchini)/p pPoor People Help ldquo;Richrdquo; People redistribute stolen Inherited and Hoarded Wealth Across Mama Earth/p p On Earth Day, April 22ndspan class="text_exposed_show", 2016, the lsquo;Stolen Land Hoarded Resources Redistribution, Decolonization Community Reparations Tour for Mama Earth and its Earth Peoplesrsquo; was launched by POOR Magazine, led by Poverty Skola Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE and fellow race, disability, indigenous scholars Leroy Moore from Krip Hop Nation and First Nations Ohlone warrior Corrina Gould of the Sogorea Land Trust./span/p p Along with many local Bay Area community allies, this nation-wide tour kicked off in the wealthy Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco (Yelamu), later followed by a second tour on May 20th in the wealthy neighborhoods of Trestle Glen in Oakland (Huichin) and in nearby Piedmont, as houseless, working-class, privileged-class, black, brown and indigenous communities walked in humility and prayer with guidance from ancestors from all four corners of corporate destroyed Mama Earth in an effort to seek monetary reparations through healing the sickness of lsquo;hoarded wealthrsquo;./p p I am walking for Luis Gongora Pat who was killed by SFPD, because he was displaced from his apartment and became homelesshellip;hersquo;s brown and poorrdquo;...said Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia, Author of Criminal of Poverty Growing Up Homeless in America and Co-Founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE./p p With the increasing epidemic of wrongful displacement of long-time residents, both poor and working poor and the increasing rapid houselessness of communities who are currently under attack from high-speed gentrification, environmental racism, property acquisition for greed, hyper-apartheid incarceration, police terror and extreme displacement through state and local policies supporting these social injustices, including anti-immigrant policies just to name a few, this tour is embarking on a mass movement to reclaim stolen land redistribution, practice the act of decolonization and seek reparations across the United States in an effort to heal Mama Earth and all of her Earth Peoples./p p During both walks, the community humbly and peacefully walk into wealthy neighborhoods door-knocking, offering wealthy land and stolen resource hoarders a chance to begin the very serious work of lsquo;decolonizationrsquo; by redistributing one or more of their hoarded and bordered stolen indigenous territories, buildings, homes, stocks, bonds, cash, extra pleasure boats and/or trust funds to landless and indigenous people in the form of what those at POOR Magazine/Prensa Pobre call ldquo;Community Reparationsrdquo;./p p Alternatively, if people are unwilling or unable to redistribute their stolen or hoarded wealth, these land-stealers and/or wealth-hoarders were then asked if they could begin an active dialogue with the community on the concept of ldquo;Community Reparationsrdquo; for those most adversely impacted such as landless, very poor and colonized communities./p p On the first walk in San Francisco (Yelamu) beginning on top of a hill in very cold and windy rain, the prayer was powerful. Present were members of POOR Magazine, Krip Hop Project and the Sogorea Land Trust standing strong in unity with several local San Francisco organizations and well-known community members holding it down in song and chant while speaking truth with a deep and powerful vibration sailing in the damp wind as words, poetry, and song, led by the beautiful spirit of the ancestors. This drew a lot of curiosity from those peering out from their perfectly clean windows of greedy grandeur. /p p span class="text_exposed_show"After peacefully walking the streets of Pacific Heights as the sun began to appear, suddenly a wealthy young person came out of her home, wanting to see what she could do to reach out to the community. The walk ended in sunny Potrero Hill, where several community members with economic privilege read their amazing written pieces about how they were going to lsquo;redistributersquo; their trust fund savings in an effort to lsquo;redistribute the wealthrsquo;. This was truly the beginning of lsquo;herstoryrsquo; making indeed!/span/p p In the second walks in Oakland/Piedmont (Huichin), on a very windy and blustery sunny day, prayer and song were heard throughout the neighborhood as all communities walked together to bring attention to the wealthy communities of healing the sickness of wealth hoarding and to redistribute their lsquo;hoarded wealthrsquo;. Many community members from all parts of Oakland (Huichin) were present, including Auntie Frances of North Oakland,/p p As several community members door-knocked on several of the lush and beautiful houses in Trestle Glen (the same area where Hipster mayor Libby Schaaf lives), most people didnrsquo;t answer, however amazinglyhellip;one person did! Dressed from head to toe, clad in his neatly pressed wealthy attire, a man opened his front door and intently listened to the community pitch the antidote for the disease of wealth hoarding and about redistributing/reparating their stolen and hoarded wealth to housless people and 1st Nations movements (ie: Sogorea Land Trust), when this man said: ldquo;What a beautiful ideahellip;yes, Irsquo;m interested.rdquo; He then takes an information flier. Amazingly the following day, he emails POOR Magazine, saying that he is interested in finding out more info bout the Sogorea Te Land trust with an interest to redistribute wealth and give reparations to them!/p p Its important for Ohlone People to be part of this movement, as we are unrecognized in our own land, and suffered the first form of gentrification aka colonization, had our languages and cultures stolen and are now displaced in our own ancestral landsrdquo;, said Corrina Gould, Ohlone land warrior and co-founder of the lsquo;Sogorea Te Land Trustrsquo;, the only Native woman-owned land trust in the United States. /p p span class="text_exposed_show"In the lsquo;Stolen Land Hoarded Resources Redistribution, Decolonization Community Reparations Tour for Mama Earth and its Earth Peoplesrsquo;, the two models that poor/displaced/houseless communities and First Nations communities are presenting is the poor people-led self-determined movement called Homefulness, located in deep East Oakland (Huichin Ohlone Land) and the Sogorea Te Land Trust, which is a Native woman-run land trust based in the land of the first peoples who lead it./span/p p One of the ways we can talk about people giving reparations is to give to the Sogore Te land trust one of the only Native- women -run land trust, said Corrina Gould In addition to these two models, the tour is planned to travel through other cities across Turtle Island (US) where the descendents of settler colonizers will be asked to redistribute their excess and/or hoarded wealth and/or stolen land to First Nations people of the city/town where they own land in or to support the launching of Homefulness models in that city/town for houseless people. Those with more than one house, condo, income property and/or more money than they need will be asked to redistribute these resources to the very poor and houseless communities in Oakland (Huichin), San Francisco (Yelamu), Los Angeles, New York and beyond./p p The next tours will be in April of 2017 and go thruspan class="text_exposed_show" Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora, Abenaki, Munsee, Mohegan, Montauk, Shinnecock, Mohican and Wappinger Wampanoag Lands (/spanspan class="text_exposed_show"span class="text_exposed_show"Philly, Mass, NYC, Conn, Washington DC and more)/span to name a few with other landless indigenous leaders like a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=257018938022612" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" href="https://www.facebook.com/picturethehomeless/"Picture the Homeless/a a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1486560081562967" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" href="https://www.facebook.com/ppehrc.of.denver/"The Poor People#39;s Economic Human Rights Campaign/aa href="http://economichumanrights.org/" /ain April 2017- Look for updates at: a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poormagazine.org%2Fh=JAQEzay3ns=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target=""www.poormagazine.orgnbsp; /a/spanLike our facebook page a href="https://www.facebook.com/Stolen-LandHoarded-Resources-Decolonization-Community-Reparations-Tour-296438067400081/"here/abr / Email us if you would like to join the tour or support our travel expences: a href="mailto:deeandtiny@poormagazine.org"deeandtiny@poormagazine.org/a/p p nbsp;/p