Bill Weber talks about the history of the family of his maternal great-grandmother, whose great-grandfather was Luis Maria Peralta, a sergeant in the Spanish Empire’s army, who was granted almost 45,000 acres of land in the San Francisco East Bay.
The Campaign to Defend Nature and People (CDNP) seeks to unite the struggles of nature-dependent communities against the extractive system through political action and envisions alternatives that privilege nature instead of considering it as a mere resource to be exploited.
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Over four centuries ago, Europeans developed a new system of amassing wealth for small groups of shareholders, taking the form of government-sanctioned exploitation of humans and ecowebs through the use of ‘legal’ tools, like charters and the doctrine of discovery.
