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November 2026 Newsletter

Posted on November 13, 2026

“The Ohlone shellmounds, village sites and burial grounds, were ‘destroyed in a parallel way to how women have been treated at the hands of men.’ One of them lies under the Bay Street shopping center in Emeryville, where ancestral remains were disturbed during construction. By the logic of improvement, a... Continue Reading

A Cemetery Became More Valuable as a Mall: Rematriation and What Property Law Refuses to Count

Posted on November 9, 2026

This blog post is a guest entry by Katie Wilberding, a 2L law student enrolled in “Liberation Lawyering,” a course taught by SELC staff attorney Veryl Pow at Northeastern University School of Law this fall. Katie wrote this introspective post as a way to integrate the unit on decolonization and... Continue Reading

Liberating Roots with Rootbound Film Project

Posted on November 2, 2026

This blog post is a guest entry from Rootbound Film Project, a fiscally sponsored project of Sustainable Economies Law Center. Right now, reading our 95-page screenplay, I see the animate force of our film’s story emerging, bristling with roots straining against concrete and capitalist malaise; stretching through the Sonoma and... Continue Reading

Reflection on New Economy Coalition's Assembly for Our Future

Posted on October 27, 2026

Late July in North Carolina most years swelters, a muggy, peak heat experience, with the occasional warm summer rainshower. But the 160+ organizers, co-op owners, teachers, artists, facilitators, and more who converged on Durham for the New Economy Coalition People’s Assembly arrived in a cool, gray city at the peak... Continue Reading