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SAF transition Our reading and dialogue with colleagues have sharpened our focus on the unjust distribution of wealth in this country. In solidarity with the groundswell of efforts toward decolonization we feel compelled to spend down our foundations assets. SAF was started with funds inherited from Tonys grandfather who in the early 1900s bought land and oil rights in Central California profiting from the states 19th century genocide of its Indigenous people and dispossession of their land. This land in presentday Kern County the ancestral home of the Yokuts Chumash and other Indigenous people shares its history with nearly all of Californias land it was stolen from its original inhabitants who were forcibly removed through murder and enslavement.