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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

The Factors That Changed Atlanta “I’ve been able to watch the city change and grow in ways that are really cool, and I’ve seen parts of it crumble. The reality is that corporations in the city spark deforestation 25 —and because they are here for profit, they’re going to extract more than they give.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

This human trade continued for over 200 years. SoundThinking is a part of the growing surveillance-industrial complex that is being used to criminalize, police, and incarcerate people living in Black and people of color communities. The amount of wealth extracted and accumulated in this manner was extraordinary. smtid=2&psid=446.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

2020 found New Haven residents, organized by the coalition New Haven Rising, storming the city’s March 30th Zoom budget meeting to express their disgust at Yale University’s continued strain on the city’s finances. 21 Meanwhile, as in many states, Arizona continued to pull back on its contributions to public higher education.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

From textbooks to commission hearings, utilities tend to be portrayed as neutral entities that provide essential services to people (like water, broadband, and energy) on a more or less continuous basis. 14 Investor-owned companies are huge corporations. Their lobbyists are among the highest funded in most state capitals.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

After the 1970s, inequality skyrocketed, the racial wealth gap widened, and union membership continued to dwindle. Even as this movement-building work continues, it’s worth remembering, too, that movements must build ecosystems to succeed. Of course, such efforts have faced and will continue to face resistance.