Reparations is a call to action the Black community has been reviving for decades.
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Community Ready Corps- they facilitate white people through a curriculum to develop collective reparations practices that will shift resources in support of Black liberation and self determination.
Yet-to-be-Named Network- This group facilitates cohort style conversations to move our communities through healing, repair, and direct action including an internal reparations fund.
Shuumi Land Tax- a voluntary annual contribution that non-Indigenous people living on traditional Lisjan Ohlone territory make to support the critical work of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.
Oakland Efforts:
Anti-Police Terror Project- After receiving a lump sum of $3.5million, APTP redistributed these funds including $400k to Community Ready Corps’ mutual aid fund. The rest funded grants of $25,000 to $200,000 for 26 Black-led organizations and initiatives, and smaller amounts for 35 families and individuals affected by state violence.
Reparations for Black Students- this is a powerful OUSD initiative that needs our support. They have a nine-point plan to enable Black students to thrive in their academic setting.
Oakland Universal Basic Income- After Stockton’s UBI pilot, Oakland is following suite and providing $500/month to 600 low-income BIPOC recipients for one year.
Long-term Strategic Change:
California Reparations Task Force- Enacted on Sept 30, 20202, this task force was form to study the institution of slavery and its lingering negative effects on living African Americans. Additionally, the Task Force will recommend appropriate remedies of compensation, rehabilitation, and restitution for descendants of persons enslaved in the United States.
National African-American Reparations Commission (NAARC)- an important systemic initiative to bring national reparations to reality including policy proposals such as HR-40.
Fund for Reparations Now- is an allies group in support of NAARC.
Movement for Black Lives- Reparations Toolkit
Reparation Efforts outside of Oakland:
Reparations: Funds and Offerings- a platform to support self-care requests from the Black community across the country.
Reparations Now, Cleveland- direct payments to the Cleveland community and an inspiration for this Oakland Fund.
Reparations in Vermont- after the murder of George Floyd, a young black college students put out a call for reparations and could not have anticipated the results.
Give Directly- giving funds directly to individuals for emergency relief, but not as a reparations effort.
Evanston, IL - The first city to start giving descendants of slaves direct funding using government funding via a marijuana tax.