Sunday, 22 September 2019

London ACG public meeting: This Land is Ours – the Fight for Justice.

ACG Talk.

All welcome.

7pm. Thursday. 26th September.

Housmans Bookshop.

 

 


The land is the source of all wealth and our very existence. However, what should belong to all of us has been taken from us and concentrated in the hands of a small minority so that they own the land, decide its use (usually to profit themselves) and control access to the benefits. All our struggles, whether for housing, community centres, and good, cheap food or against climate change are struggles over how land is used and who makes the decisions.

There has been a tradition of fighting for land justice in Britain, most recently in the Scottish movement for land reform. People are beginning to question the idea of private property and moving to more radical ideas such as the land being a Commons- owned and controlled by us all. This talk will first look at the question of who owns and controls the land in Britain, consider what is being done in Scotland and elsewhere, and then open the discussion on what changes we would like to see.


At Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DY

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