The People's Network for Land and Liberation - Decolonizing Economics Summit

People’s Network for Land & Liberation: An Experiment in 21st Century Liberated Zones This panel will describe an emerging network of local communities working to explicitly decolonize the land to reestablish the relationship with the earth and all our relatives and relations. We aim to democratically transform the means of production, establish liberatory social relationships, and build sustainable communities that regenerate the earth’s lifegiving eco-systems. We have made a commitment to the tools, tactics and strategies of the social and solidarity economy to accomplish our goals. We employ community land trusts (and other forms of collective stewardship of land) to decommodify the land and deconstruct the systems of private ownership. We are developing cooperatives, community production centers, and horizontal unions and workers collectives to organize oppressed peoples and the working class to build class consciousness and work as associated producers in unison as a coherent social and material force.

Presenters: Kali Akuno, Kamau Franklin, and Michelle Eddleman-McCormick.