Santa Barbara Reparations Council
A meeting to engage the reparations on a local level in Santa Barbara
What is reparations?
Yes it is monetary compensation, but it is more than that. It is:
- How we heal our bodies, the land, our relationships.
- The inequities of healthcare, housing, wages, legal protections, sovereignty, education, family support, and so many more injustices.
- What holds us back from making this healing possible and engaging with reparative justice.
The five satisfactory phases in a reparative process:
Reckoning
Re-education
De-monumentalizing
Undoing harmful policy
Truth telling
Does the idea of a Santa Barbara reparations council interest you?
Do these topics interest you?
- How this land was colonized
- Land return
- Holding institutions accountable
- Having truth telling ceremonies
- Addressing historical and current forms of segregation in our community
- Redistribution of wealth
- Corporate responsibility to the community
- Connection to the historical land
- Rematriation to the land
- Community reparations for the here and now
- The racialized story of Santa Barbara
- Naming the harms of white supremacy in Santa Barbara
- Accountability for white dominant institutions
Monthly Meetings
This is work we can do here and now to move towards the big call for reparations after the truth telling phase.
If you would like to be a part of a conversation to see what this could look like in Santa Barbara, please sign up at the link below for a meeting on the 22nd of each month.
