Origin of Gullah Culture
Saltwater Geechee
Special Guest Reginald Hall Shares the Plight of the Saltwater Geechee Community in Sapelo Island , Georgia South & North Carolina , Georgia , Sea Island , and Florida around Jacksonville Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Reginald will share the plight of what’s occurring now, and how the lands of this awesome culture, is being taken from beneath their feet via “Eminent Domain” by the Governor of Georgia. This shouldn’t be happening in America
One might ask by what process is possible? Eminent domain, what is it? It’s basically gives the government the right to take possession of any real estate if a determined need is required for the governmental purposes. For a more detailed definition please defer as an example to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
Thank you, for supporting by signing this petition for “Help Save the Ancestral Saltwater Geechee Lands on Sapelo Island , Georgia
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Ancestral Saltwater Geechee Lands on Sapelo Island , Georgia
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Excellent post. Do all you can to fight the "taking" of Geechee lands on Sapelo Island. Those of us who have faced the threat of eminent domain know that more “taking” is on its way driven — not by “economic development takings” — but by energy companies in search of shale gas (as in Marcellus shale).
ReplyDeleteThe pursuit of these gas-rich shales brings with it more pipelines and more underground gas storage fields — and that (pipelines & storage fields) always means eminent domain.
And in some states like Pennsylvania, the gas industry and some legislators are talking up “forced pooling” which will permit gas companies to seize gas under your property, even if you refuse to sign a lease.
The stories are horrendous; but property owners can fight back. Our two-year battle against Houston-based Spectra Energy which seized our property rights for an underground gas storage field led to the development of a website. If you want to understand the adverse effects of this type of eminent domain, refer to this post: Spectra Energy
Or here: http://www.spectraenergywatch.com/blog/?p=616
Private property rights are so fundamental that founding fathers such as Samuel Adams described it as an “essential” right and wrote, “that no man can justly take the property of another without his consent.”