Organization Of The Month: November 2021

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

Rebecca Marlin Pet Care will donate 10% of each month's profits to a different organization doing local social justice work and/or work related to animals. The organization will be listed and promoted here on the website and on social media. If you would like your organization to be involved or have an idea for an organization to donate to, please contact Rebecca at rebecca@rebeccamarlinpetcare.com. Preference will be given to BIPOC-led organizations that provide direct services to marginalized communities.

This month, we are donating 10% of November’s profits to Sogorea Te’ Land Trust to support their work of restoring indigenous land to indigenous people in the Bay Area. Sogorea Te’ Land Trust was our Organization of the Month back in March 2019 and November 2020, and we are glad to support them once again as they continue their work in our community. Especially as we celebrate Thanksgiving this month, we wanted to also make space to recognize the indigenous communities that originally inhabited and conserved this land, and their continued importance in our society today.

From their website:

"Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.

Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, Sogorea Te’ calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.

We envision a Bay Area in which Ohlone language and ceremony are an active, thriving part of the cultural landscape, where Ohlone place names and history is known and recognized and where intertribal Indigneous communities have affordable housing, social services, cultural centers and land to live, work and pray on.

Sogorea Te’ is centered in Huchuin, the ancestral homeland of Chochenyo-speaking Lisjan Ohlone people, now known as the East Bay.”