"Rather than the risk for this investor or this financial institution, what is the risk to the earth? What is the risk to the community?"
"Traditional finance has discriminated against Black and Indigenous communities through very harmful practices like redlining and credit collateral, all under the guise of risk."
"Using finance and money to liberate can be tricky, because that has not been the purpose of capital, which has typically been used to extract from communities."
"There needs to be a lot of narrative work and internal healing to say, 'I deserve to steward these resources and have a say over my community.'"
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