Liberate the Land 35
The land does not belong to us, we belong to the land. This print honors the movement to FREE THE LAND!
Through this art, I celebrate Indigenous efforts to rematriate the land and return it to the stewardship of Indigenous people, such as the work led by Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women-led nonprofit rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The phrase “Free the Land” has its roots with the New Afrikan Independence Movement, which called for an independent Black nation on the North American continent. To “Free the Land” means to support Black land reparations.
Much of my education as a climate justice activist comes from Movement Generation, an organization that recognizes that people of African descent have a unique struggle in reimagining and reclaiming relationships with the land of this continent—doing so in ways that honor our ancestors from the African...
