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Richmond, CA

Thanks to those of you many organizers involved,

Marissa Alexander has been a free woman, and Angela Corey was ousted from public office. The movement continued to reverberate, reaching far beyond one woman’s fate – it has revolutionized the lives of countless people who learned how to organize for social change during Marissa’s landmark court case. LandCorps is one of our several actions in building worker-owned ORGANIZER cooperatives, black-led, women-led!   A black feminist economy!

Some of us are now the 5 coop members who are bringing a black-women led worker cooperative and intentional community to life.  We have many of you on a hundred people waiting list, and the collective has received support from around the country, including land donation offers from multiple foundations and communities. Thanks to a suggestion from Aleta’s daughter YaYa, the community was named, Parable of the Sower, after the 1993 novel by trailblazing black science fiction writer Octavia Butler. Butler’s story of a young woman who brings a collective together to forge their own destiny depicts America’s near future as a time of rampant inequality and brute violence – a vision that is terrifyingly close to our present day reality.

Parable of the Sower worker cooperative isn’t just for black women with children, we are rooting for everyone Black.

There will be partners there, gay and straight, bi and trans, children and grandparents, but the five core cooperative members are black women. We have worked on the bylaws and exactly how we will live this out, day to day, not 9-5, but 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, in charge of our own destiny.

Our message at the UN Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:
The application of Stand Your Ground routinely fails to value the defense of black life. The reason given for why Ms. Alexander was not granted Stand Your Ground immunity is that the judge decided she did not feel genuine fear. This is absurd, but not surprising, because research shows that courts often don't perceive black women victims as sympathetic and credible. Instead black women are characterized as aggressive, emasculating and incapable of being victimized.  We have been pushed out, over-policed and under protected.* Instead of supporting Ms. Alexander as a victim of violence, the state's attorney ultimately reinforced the domestic violence she experienced by punishing her for saving her own life. Black women, and all women have the right to self defense.
Black August 2023:  An Invitation to Make History
Parable of the Sower Intentional Community is taking applications for all to support this movement and learn about the principles of intentional community by living it during our groundbreaking Land Corps pilot project, which will take place in Richmond, CA. during the month of August 2023.  
Sign up here to learn how you can support the first black women-led modern intentional community in history with your time, or with donations of land, money, and other forms of support.
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All that you touch You Change.
All that you change Changes You.
The only lasting truth is change.
-- Octavia Butler

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