Current Experiments

BLLI is a program that builds Black leadership, structure, and practice for a land-centered liberation movement. We aim to develop diverse and interdependent strategies that move us away from the current extractive economies which depend on the violent enclosure of land, labor, culture, power, wealth and spirit. We take on the bridge work necessary to allow for land stewards and land networks to build with each other.

At the heart of our movement is the fundamental right to the resources required to create our own productive, dignified and sustainable livelihoods through our own free labor and self-governance. Key among those resources is land. We endeavor to co-create strategies for transformation which are grounded in a long-term vision, guided in the resilience, culture, and creativity of our ancestry, rooted in our sovereignty, and which we can begin putting into place now.

BLLI is currently engaged in a shared inquiry around memory keeping and maintaining the longevity of Black land based knowledge, skills, and practice. We hope to bring forth strategies and interdependence to support the transmission and return of Black agrarian knowledge to those whose purpose and legacy it is to receive it.