#community land ownership

[sketchydmitrix]

hot take

everyone should have a free website, just like we should have free land. just one reliable URL, a space, a voice, no strings attached. i think we should do that

[deanmarywinchester]

disappointed I might not be able to take the real estate finance class in my program <- insane sentences. what have I become

[defleftist]

Do people have the right to own property?

Legally? Yeah you can own land. Morally? That’s a bit more grey. I tend to think land stewardship is a more ethical concept. I often look to my indigenous friends for guidance on this.

[sag-dab-sar]

If saving nature via a conservation park makes refugees/IDPs out of indigenous people, it isn't real conservation: it some sort of unrealistic fantasy ideal of nature free of human touch. Humans are an important keystone species regardless of how much we like to demonize ourselves as some sort of plague killing the planet.

[fort-no-more]

any music-related hot takes?

Mate, I started off as a radio tower illegally broadcasting music that was censored by the BBC. I only have music-related hot takes!

Our take of the day is that anyone who thinks punk must stick to a specific aesthetic is not punk, and it's almost always trying to censor even if they might say it's "preserving" it. (Spoiler: their ideas of "aesthetics" are mostly just, you know... it's saying something awful without saying it because you know how bad it sounds? What's that word again? Is it dogwhistling, or is that something else?)

Mind you, it's not as common now as it was in the 2000s, in part because people were gatekeeping against pop punk (which is a different subgenre, chrise, leave them be) and then reached even further to target actual punk groups, but there was a good chunk of time where geezers who were into the early punk scene would mock any new group for being posers, and most of the time, the people they were pitching a fit about were women, minorities, or young people (ah, yeah, hating on the youth: the most punk thing of all, apparently!) As if British punk would be what it is today without people like Poly Styrene, who basically invented the subgenre of Riot Grrl over a decade before it was recognized and fits into all the groups that are now apparently posers. She'd go on stage with a cute bow in her hair and pastel jumper and skirt and braces like she just left school picture day, then scream her head off about identity and oppression so hard that venues had to pause shows to fix the sound systems!

And - And as if punk at the time wasn't constantly toying with how people dress or sound or look, and pushing revolution, all the stuff that people get weird about nowadays. "Oi, these young wannabes don't look like The Clash!" The Clash are great, and also they would have kicked your skull in for being an elitist bigoted prick. Multiple groups can be great! Just admit you became old and boring and Tory-fied just like the parents you used to rebel against, and can't handle a genre that's - that's based on anarchy unless you can look at it through nostalgia.

[medicinemane]

"DIY tiny home you can build in weeks", ok... now lets see the cost

...seven and a half minutes later, the answer is $75k... so when you include land and all the rest of it, so basically nothing right?

This is my problem with tiny homes stuff, it's for rich people

[jamaicahomescom]

The Ghetto in Jamaica: History, Realities, and Resilience

The concept of the “ghetto” in Jamaica is deeply intertwined with the country’s history of colonialism, slavery, political evolution, and social inequality. It is a place of paradox: a space of profound hardship and struggle, yet also a hub of incredible creativity and resilience. From the birth of Jamaica’s music industry to the stories of struggle for land ownership and rights, the ghettos…

[reasonsforhope]

"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

[brewscoop]

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[undergroundusa]

"The Open Fields Doctrine has sparked a lot of debate and controversy since it was established almost a century ago. Essentially, this doctrine permits state and federal wildlife agents and other "authorities" to enter private property without a warrant…"

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When Is Private Property Not Private Property? When The Government Says So

[thoughtfulfoxllama]

I want Land

My Grandfather is a Landlord (and he's better than about 99% of them, charging a decent price & even letting me get behind on rent when I lost my job. I obviously paid him back when I was able, but that was me). My Parents bought their house from him

My In-laws own their own house, and and each of their parents own houses

But what do I want to have on my land. Well, I want to grow my own food. My wife's grandfather was a master grafter, and had an orchard he tended every day. My mother (like her grandfather) has an awesome garden, and plans to expand it now that she knows she can do it. Also, my mother can can preserves, and my wife's family cans venison every year they get a hunting license, so we'd have a cellar with our food storage

Also, I want to have my own animals. My In-laws have chickens, and they lay a good half dozen a day (and that's in the slow season). Obviously, my cats, for companionship and pest control. I'm unsure if I want to get Sheep or Goats. Sheep give Wool, which would let us make Clothes. But goats give milk (although I'm lactose intolerant). I don't wanna get cows, because they're high maintenance, lactose intolerant, and my family buys fresh beef every spring

And what is life without a social net. I want to have a big house, with rooms for each kid (4 is the plan), and guest rooms. I also want to have a Casita as a guest house (maybe have my siblings come over for a few weeks, and stay in there)

And with the stuff I grow, I'd have to sell some of it (since you can't tithe a bucket of apples anymore. I don't even know how you'd put that on the slip). Aside from offerings, I'd probably want to sell more to build up extra savings (because I still wanna be a teacher. At least I think I do. Anthropology is also cool, but I'd need extra schooling to get an Anth Job), and to expand everything

So, that's my ambition. I want my own place, where I can form it in my image, where I can spend time with my family, where I can do what I want. Basically, I want to get as close to Exaltation as I can in life

[aydascomprehendsubtext]

Housing is one of the many many issues where it's like. Once you are fully playing magic wand fiat Sim city godking there are some fascinating hard questions and tradeoffs you could spend your whole life digging into. and you would probably get a lot of them wrong and leave the next generation cursing your name. But you could also pass like two national laws and lop like 20% of the cruelty is the point shit right off the top

[ahaura]

(Nov. 29) Indigenous Group Wins Fight to Reclaim Ancestral Land After Being Forced Out 8 Decades Ago

In a major victory for Indigenous rights, an Ecuadorian appeals court has sided with the Siekopai Nation to regain ownership of their ancestral homeland in the Amazon rainforest. The Siekopai people were forced out of their territory, called Pë’këya, over 80 years ago during the Peru-Ecuador War in the 1940s. This ruling will mark the first time the Ecuadorian government grants a land title to an Indigenous community whose ancestral land is now a protected area. The Siekopai are on the brink of extinction with a population of only 800 people in Ecuador and 1,200 in Peru. In a statement, Siekopai Nation President Elias Piyahuaje said, “We are fighting for the preservation of our culture on this planet. Without this territory, we cannot exist as Siekopai people. Today is a great day for our nation. Until the end of time, this land will be ours.”

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“CITY LOT GARDENER PICKS PRIVATE PLOT,” Toronto Star. April 30, 1942. Page 2. ---- Permit Says "Don Valley," But He Goes Astray --- A stray community gardener, with a permit in his pocket, selected a choice bit of land for his garden the other day. Immediately Parks Commissioner C. E. Chambers started receiving complaints.

The gardener had been given a permit to cultivate a plot in seven acres of land taken over by the city at a tax sale last year, in the Don Valley, just north of the Bloor St. viaduct. The description in the permit was just "Don Valley."

Without benefit of a map, astronomical instruments or a compass, the gardener kept on going until he found suitable port.

Investigating, Mr. Chambers found that the gardener had settled on private property, a part of the E. B. Osler estate. The city had been given considerable property nearby for park purposes, but part of the area, although left open and used by the public for picnics, is still in the estate.

"I understand he has been ordered to move," Mr. Chambers said.

[palestinianliberator]

Over the weekend, Israeli settlers, backed by Israeli Occupation Forces, confiscated about 6 acres of my family's land. Land that has been with my family for generations & used for agriculture, seizing about 30 acres in total from our village over the weekend.

Israeli settlers, armed by the Israeli government, simply walked onto the land, set up tents, & now claim it as their own - and as Palestinians with the land ownership documents, there is absolutely nothing we can do.

This isn't the first time, either - just a couple years back, Israeli settlers seized about 3 acres from us & dozens more from others in our village.

& now, as Palestinians, we are no longer allowed to set foot on our own land, while Israeli settlers with citizenships from around the world [primarily the US] get "free" land, & will go on to establish an outpost & eventually a new settlement community, which will be funded & provided utilities by the Israeli government, who will then build discriminatory roads connecting it to the network of Israeli settlements built on Palestinian land throughout the West Bank.

It's utterly surreal to be living under a settler colony that continues to grow through the use of ethnic cleansing - because that is precisely what this is.

Those same settlers have been raiding our town for YEARS, but have dramatically stepped up their attacks this year - prior to anything that's happened in October. They've set fire to the homes & vehicles of friends, they've uprooted hundreds of olive trees, & spray paint "gas the Arabs" on our homes. People who resist by throwing stones at these invading groups have been shot at [and in several cases, killed].

This is why we resist.

[serpentface]

Miniature dog and khait effigies for a Wardi funeral. These are clay figurines that have been painted and decorated with great care by a skilled artist. Both include real hairs from the individual animals they have been modeled after. The dog is collared, showing that it is a loyal pet rather than a lowly feral scrounger. The khait is fully bridled and ready to carry the deceased in their journey.

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It is believed that the souls of the deceased, once freed of their bodies, undergo a month-long journey to reach rebirth in the lunar lands. This journey is full of perils. It begins in the realm of the earth where the soul is naked and vulnerable and traveling through complete darkness. Evil spirits dwell within this realm and may try to capture the soul or lead them astray, and the way is twisting and obscured in shadows. Even after escaping this darkness, the soul still must travel an arduous and winding path through the realm of the sky in order to reach their destination.

A khait and a dog are traditionally offered as funerary goods (in addition to food, water, wine, clothing, weapons, and other needs) to assist the soul in their travels- the khait will ease their passage in their long journey and carry them swiftly, and the dog will navigate through earthly darkness and dense cloud by scent, and protect the soul from harm.

Ideally, one of the deceased's own living khait and hunting/guard dogs will be killed at the funeral (typically the most beloved of their animals, as who would be better company than that?) so that they can have familiar and loyal helpers in their lonely journey. However, there are tremendous class barriers to ownership and disposability of a khait, and well-bred working dogs (while significantly more accessible) aren't ubiquitously available, and many people do not consider captured feral dogs to be a worthy replacement. As such, funerals with full animal offerings tend to be limited to higher status individuals.

Everyday people still need protection on their journeys, and animal effigies can be appropriate replacements for the real thing. These effigies are usually designed with great specificity to represent known individual animals that have already died (often including the animal's actual hair, as seen here). The soul of the represented animal will recognize the effigy as its body, and can be called into the icon so that it may accompany the deceased. These effigies (along with any other necessary grave goods) will be placed onto the pyre and burned along with the body so that the traveling soul will be sent off with everything they need.

Some folk traditions have semi-legendary local animal spirits who will be represented instead of a personally familiar animal. This often develops around a small community 'sharing' one historically extant animal for their funeral effigies as a matter of practicality, developing a sense of attachment to this animal as an aspect of shared identity, and adding layers of legend to the animal's story with the passage of time.

For example, a very popular legendary guide in the northeastern rural parts of Ephennos is Chisnops-Inreña (which very closely translates to 'Orange Son Of A Bitch'), a legendary livestock guardian dog. The animal was said to have been the biggest, meanest, ugliest motherfucker around, but was an unshakably loyal and fierce guardian, as noble as a dog (not the noblest of animals by any means) can possibly be. He is said to have fought off everything from jackals to lions to cattle thieves in his day, and died protecting his herdsman master from an infamous man-eating king hyena, only succumbing to his own wounds when the great beast lay dead. His spirit was later used as a guide in his master's funeral, and local legend states that the same spirit has been seen following herdsmen and their cattle ever since, as not even death could keep him from his duties. Such a dog would make an excellent guide and protector in the journey to the afterlife, and effigies of him are favored in the funerals of northeastern Ephenni pastoralists.

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