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Pull that one out and the whole stack collapses!

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“NPPP is community-controlled ecology campus. We take the position that the struggle is for land. The NPPP started 3.5 year ago, going on 4 years ago. Around the corner, we took over a whole block, reclaimed it for reparations, cuz this whole block was dilapidated, empty, ugly, environmental hazard, and besides that, our people needed fresh food, our people needed education, our people needed space; so we laid claim to the land. With the help of God, we developed the land. And for 3.5 years, man, we fed this whole neighborhood and educated this whole neighborhood. All the problems that we suffer from right now – your electricity got cut off, your children is out of control, your schools is messed up, your health is bad…. We didn’t cause it, it’s legacies of slavery.

“The thing about food it’s funny – part of the dumbing down of the people is to alienate them not only from their body from their relationship to food. People put anything into their body, bro.

“Part of dumbing down the people is alienating them about that knowledge.

“All these abandoned lots in our community? They beckon us to develop them. And I’ma tell you, it ain’t no application the city got for you to do it, but you can make an application with the universe. And that’s what the Peace Park did. And I mentioned to you, they threatened to throw me and my comrades in jail for criminal trespass.”

- Tommy Joshua

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“You can’t develop this neighborhood by destroying the popular development of the neighborhood.” 

- Tommy Joshua

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Martineau, Jarrett and Eric Ritskes. “Fugitive indigeneity: Reclaiming the terrain of decolonial struggle through Indigenous art.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2014, pp. I-XII. http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/21320/17382

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Ochoa Gautier, Ana María and Alejandro Gragnoli. Introducción: Musicas en transición. In Cuadernos de nación: Músicas en transición. Colombia Ministerio de Cultura, 2001: 8-9.