by wp3722 | Jul 30, 2012
By Norman G. Kurland, Dawn K. Brohawn and Michael D. Greaney Center for Economic and Social Justice Response to USDA’s “Rural Development Overview” Presented at the U.S. Department of Agriculture – Senior Policy Retreat May 5-7, 1994 “But...
by wp3722 | May 31, 2012
by Norman G. Kurland, Center for Economic and Social Justice “The only way we as black people are going to get anything is through ownership, because ownership brings power. We don’t have enough power. That’s why we can’t change things.”...
by wp3722 | May 31, 2012
Editor’s Note: The “Citizens Land Bank (CLB”) has also been referred to by CESJ as the for-profit “Citizens Land Cooperative (CLC)” and the for-profit “Community Investment Corporation (CIC)” (a term used since the 1960s)....
by wp3722 | May 29, 2012
Throughout history the rich and powerful owned the things that produced the wealth. When land and people were what produced wealth, the rich and powerful owned land and people. Today the things that produce most of the wealth are land and technology. In particular,...
by wp3722 | Feb 25, 2012
(Center for Economic and Social Justice, published in “Futures 40,” Elsevier Ltd., July 15, 2008, 841-843, www.elsevier.com/locate/futures. Editor’s Note added September 3, 2014.) Editor’s Note (2014): From the perspective of...
