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Showing posts with label land. Show all posts
Friday, December 5, 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
History Minute: Andrew Jackson, National Hero (#006)
Quoting:
Jackson became a national hero when in 1814 he fought the Battle of Horseshoe Bend against a thousand Creeks and killed eight hundred of them, with few casualties on his side. His white troops had failed in a frontal attack on the Creeks, but the Cherokees with him, promised governmental friendship if they joined the war, swam the river, came up behind the Creeks, and won the battle for Jackson.
When the war ended, Jackson and friends of his began buying up the seized Creek lands. He got himself appointed treaty commissioner and dictated a treaty which took away half the land of the Creek nation. Rogin says it was "the largest single Indian cession of southern American land." It took land from Creeks who had fought with Jackson as well as those who had fought against him…
Excerpt From
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
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Sunday, August 17, 2025
Trump drops ceasefire demand for Ukraine war, tells allies Putin wants land - The Washington Post
Trump's swerve increases pressure on the Ukrainian leader as he heads to the White House on Monday to make his case...
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Israel is ‘seizing territory’ and will ‘divide up’ Gaza, Netanyahu says | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
Prime minister says Israel will build a new security corridor to isolate parts of the strip in major escalation…
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Israel to ‘seize more ground’ and warns Hamas it will annex parts of Gaza
"I ordered [the army] to seize more territory in Gaza," Katz said in a statement. "The more Hamas refuses to free the hostages, the more territory it will lose, which will be annexed by Israel."…
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Israel has approved ‘largest West Bank land grab in 30 years’, watchdog says
Peace Now says the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, "are determined to fight against the entire world and against the interests of the people of Israel for the benefit of a handful of settlers".
"Today, it is clear to everyone that this conflict cannot be resolved without a political settlement that establishes a Palestinian state alongside Israel," the group added. "Still, the Israeli government chooses to actually make it difficult."…
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
How Biden is conserving land and water as Trump looms
The White House has a goal to conserve 30% of US land and water by 2030 – Trump has different plans…
Thursday, May 30, 2024
U.S. created Indian boarding schools to destroy cultures and seize land - Washington Post
From 1819 to 1969, the U.S. government separated Native American children from their families to eradicate their cultures, assimilate them into White society and seize tribal land…
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 - The Washington Post
Friday's land order is particularly problematic for the prospect of a two-state solution, experts say.
"If Israel confiscates land around Jerusalem, all the way to the Dead Sea, there will be no future for a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem," said Hamza Zubiedat, a land rights activist for the Ramallah-based Ma'an Development Center. "This is where a Palestinian capital was supposed to be located, according to the American and European talks."…
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Native tribe to get back land 160 years after largest mass hanging in US history
Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back.…
Sunday, April 23, 2023
‘They just need land’: young farmers struggle to find affordable acreage
Jordan Treakle, the national program coordinator at the NFFC, a coalition representing farmers, ranchers and advocacy organizations in 42 states, says that with so much land expected to change hands in the next decade, it's essential that it is passed to young farmers instead of investors or developers.
"If 40% of agricultural land falls into corporate ownership as a speculative asset class or as a way to park money – rather than that land being used to support rural economies in our local food systems – I think that has big implications for national security, for our food security as a nation and the vitality of our local rural economy," he says…
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Land documents claiming Ukrainian officials bought fancy properties in Switzerland are forged - PolitiFact
A website claimed that three high-ranking Ukrainian officials had purchased luxury property in the resort town of Gstaad, Switzerland.
A Swiss land registry official said the documents cited as evidence were forged; errors in them prove that they did not come from the registry, the official said…
Monday, January 10, 2022
‘If not us, then who?’: inside the landmark push for reparations for Black Californians
…Nancy and her descendants would go on to purchase more than 400 lush acres of farmland in Coloma. But what should have been a story of triumph ended instead as a tale all too familiar to formerly enslaved Black Americans across the US. The state of California seized the majority of that land under the guise of eminent domain to build a state park, and the family never received just compensation...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Advocates push for land return to Blacks nationwide after victory in California - The Washington Post
…Winston Willis owned multiple thriving businesses around 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland beginning in 1968, before being forced out through a combination of illegal and fraudulent tactics by private developers and city officials and judges who conspired with them…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/06/return-black-owned-land-movement/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/06/return-black-owned-land-movement/
Thursday, July 1, 2021
ADM sold Sonny Perdue South Carolina land worth millions for $250,000 in 2017 - Washington Post
… Later that year, ADM checked off a top lobbying goal when Congress passed a biodiesel tax credit that amounted to $1 per gallon subsidy retroactive to 2017. In early 2020, at the onset of the coronavirus crisis, Perdue announced a $100 million subsidy of biofuels, including ethanol and biodiesel...
Saturday, June 19, 2021
‘We want our land back’: for descendants of the Elaine massacre, history is far from settled
"Our people were doing well here before 1919: owning our own land, selling our own crops, teaching in schools, running businesses. Like in Tulsa, the massacre happened here because we were doing well. They sent people from Helena and neighboring states to Elaine to murder and lynch us. They changed our deeds in the courthouse and did whatever they needed to do to get us out of the way so they could take our land. There were some sharecroppers here, but many of us were families, like mine, who owned land."
Saturday, April 24, 2021
This Land Is Not Your Land – Mother Jones
A brief history of the US government appropriating farmland from people of color.
Sunday, April 18, 2021
A beach town seized a Black couple’s land in the 1920s. Now their family could get it back
"Learning that a hate crime was committed against my family, it was jarring," said Anthony Bruce, recalling his first visit to the site of their stolen land in the 80s when he was five. "It felt personal, like it was an attack against me."
Today, the county estimates that Bruces' property is worth $75m...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/17/bruces-beach-willa-charles-manhattan-beach-la-county
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