Living into the Future The movement for community owned housing is reimagining homeownership. Instead of homeownership that isolates the nuclear household and values housing as an asset, it envisions a future in which people are collective stewards―not owners―of homes, land, and the community that inhabits them. |
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In many ways, the movement is already living into this future through community land trusts, limited equity cooperatives, and other forms of community ownership. Our new report, developed in collaboration with community owned housing practitioners across California, explores questions and paths forward for developing a shared strategy and ecosystem for community owned housing at scale.
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'Disturbing Signs'
In a blog post published last month, several days before President Trump's inauguration, Assistant Director Stephen Menendian opined that Trump's bellicose rhetoric about taking over other countries' territory was "one of the most dangerous traits of demagogic political leaders." He wrote: "It is not difficult to imagine, a few years from now, with his poll numbers sagging, how a demagogue like Trump could initiate some military expedition to bolster his flagging support."
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Debt, Maldevelopment, and the Challenge of Stability in Sudan
OBI's Global Justice Program leader Elsadig Elsheikh uses a historical, colonial and economic analysis to explain the turmoil Sudan is currently experiencing, and offers a pathway forward. He describes a "vision of a sovereign government that embraces pluralism in governance and accepts the wealth of identities, cultures, and diverse languages in Sudan." |
On Wednesday, Feb. 12 we'll be launching Our Future Economy, a series of in-person, public events that create space to learn, imagine, and plan projects and strategies for a just transition of the economy in Richmond, California and beyond. The series will bring together residents, community-based organization members and staff, city staff and electeds, advocates, entrepreneurs, artists and scholars - open to the public with targeted strategies to support the participation of people most harmed and marginalized by the current economy.
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Join us for an in-person discussion with author Dr. Margaret Price about her new book, Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life, on Thursday, Feb. 13 at UC Berkeley. Dr. Price is a Professor in the English Department and Director of the Disability Studies Program at the Ohio State University. This event will feature Dr. Price in conversation with Berkeley's Haas Chair of Disability Studies Karen Nakamura. It will be followed by a reception with food and refreshments. This event will be recorded and posted online afterwards.
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Join our Power of Bridging Book Club!
Starting next week, on Monday, Feb. 10 at 11:30am PT, OBI University will be launching a new book club on The Power of Bridging, a timely research-backed guide by john a. powell and Rachelle Galloway-Popotas for building bridges across difference. This virtual book club will meet four times a month, turning our focus to one chapter every month.
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This is an opportunity to connect with other people committed to bridging — and building — a shared future where we all belong. We'll work to make sense of our moment together, discuss lessons from the book, and become bridgers in our daily life. After the success of our first book club on Belonging without Othering last year, we knew we had to organize another one.
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In December, OBI's Bridging for Democracy team presented at the biannual Gamaliel Network Race & Power conference in Detroit. Ponsella Hardaway from MOSES, DeAngelo Bester from the Workers Center for Racial Justice, Sara Freudenberg, a local pastor, and Mansi Kathuria from OBI talked about the Bridging for Democracy project to a packed room of organizers. They led a discussion about how bridging can support and strengthen power building across the movement field.
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New bridging course for UC Berkeley students
Hello Cal students 👋. Do you still have space in your schedule for next Spring? Check out the Bridging & Belonging Course offered by the Campus Bridging Project through the Ethnic Studies Department!
In this class, we will work to integrate the core concepts of bridging and belonging (as well as their counterparts of bonding and breaking/othering) into understanding the work being done on Berkeley’s campus and the possibility of the work to come. The course will offer opportunities for students to develop their own understandings of bridging and belonging, learn about student groups and campus orgs already doing some of this work, and build towards their own implementation and analysis of the course concepts in real-world contexts.
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If you missed our 2024 Othering & Belonging Conference in Oakland, here's your chance to grab some exclusive swag we had designed just for the event. Grab your Belonging-themed apparel before they run out from our O&B Conference merch store. This merch is separate from our regular merch store which sells our standard items.
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Together, we can make belonging the norm, not the exception.
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