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The Land Is Ours

TLIO campaigns peacefully for access to the land, its resources, and the decision-making processes affecting them

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Residents of Scottish island Ulva raise €5.1 million to buy out aristocrat landlord 23/06/2018
Tories vote down law requiring landlords make their homes fit for human habitation 17/06/2018
How the extent of County Farms has halved in 40 years (from Who Owns England blog) 13/06/2018
Concrete Soldiers – Saving Britain’s Council Estates and Social Housing from the Developer Philistines 24/05/2018
French Police Use Tear Gas, Water Cannons against Thousands of Eco-Activism Protesters 24/04/2018
The 34 Estates Approved for Destruction By Sadiq Khan Despite Promising No More Demolitions Without Residents’ Ballots 23/04/2018
Sat 14th April 2018: Tour of London’s land & housing crisis by the Land Justice Network 14/04/2018
Sat19May, COUNTY MAYO Irish Famine Walk 2018 12/04/2018
Nine Gaza land protesters shot dead by IDF snipers, at least six journalists shot and wounded 07/04/2018
US blocks UNSC statement on Israel’s use of force on Land Day 03/04/2018
Palestine: The Great Return March, marking 70 years since the Nakba. 31/03/2018
Steward Community Woodland: part of Dartmoor’s soul killed by an overbearing authority 30/03/2018
Building in central London occupied for homeless shelter 09/03/2018
‘All we want is a bed’ – Hull’s Baker Street squatters march for the homeless 25/02/2018
Solving the housing crisis? The Case for Land Value Taxation 24/02/2018
UK Parliament investigates the effectiveness of current Land Value Capture Methods 06/02/2018
The Norman Yoke: Britain’s landless serfs, owned by foreign mercenary landlords 01/02/2018
Housing as a speculative financial asset: introducing REITS (Real Estate Investment Trusts) 23/01/2018
Varsity: The homeless should be helped, not criminalised 21/01/2018
New Chartist manifesto 2017 – six demands 20/01/2018
Landworkers’ Alliance crowdfunder to lobby for small scale, traditional family farms & ecological farming for the UK’s post-brexit agricultural policy 17/01/2018
The Victorian slums are back – and housing developers are to blame again 16/01/2018
United States was forced to abandon Grosvenor Square embassy because Duke of Westminster refused to sell freehold 13/01/2018
Imber in Wiltshire: Salisbury Plain village and church access restricted by MoD 12/01/2018
‘Appeasing the developers’: even Labour controlled cities keep extent of privatised ‘public’ space secret 11/01/2018
Bristol’s GRC: Bailiffs in Balaclavas 05/01/2018
Post-Brexit farming funding set out by Michael Gove 04/01/2018
National Community Land Trusts Network 03/01/2018
Dissolution of the Monasteries, Civil War, Thomas Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell and the founding of freemasonry and Zionism? 02/01/2018
Happy New Year! New Year Dishonour List 2018 31/12/2017
Tories quietly drop two flagship housing policies from key strategy document 24/12/2017
Criminalising homelessness: Homeless man jailed and forced to pay £115 after he fell asleep in doorway of central Bath hotel 24/12/2017
introducing “Ourfield” – a cooperative co-farming/crop share investment collective grains movement 10/12/2017
Guardian editorial: make water available for free on tap [and food, clothing, shelter] 10/12/2017
Plymouth’s ex-Barclays Bank squatters evicted from Mutley Plain 09/12/2017
Guardian: House prices aren’t the issue – land prices are 25/11/2017
Dukes of Westminster pumped millions into secretive offshore firms and avoided billions of pounds in tax 24/11/2017
Marion Shoard – Power In The Land (1987) – LWT production for Channel 4 23/11/2017
What next for young people in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas? 09/11/2017
Prince Charles has millions in off-shore tax havens: Royal is latest to be dragged into Paradise Papers cash scandal 08/11/2017
Brazil: Unemployment, rent drive housing occupations 04/11/2017
Royal Palaces and Castles in Britain – some barely used 02/11/2017
Crofting: traditional British land tenure enshrined in law after battles of the 1880s 20/10/2017
Homeless offered a year’s rent to leave New York permanently 08/10/2017
NEF map reveals public land suitable for affordable housing is being sold off instead 06/10/2017
Aussie couple builds off-grid mobile home with two shipping containers 28/09/2017
Nyéléni : the voice of the international movement for Food Sovereignty 25/09/2017
Co-operative socialism – The Fair World Project (FWP) – for a just global economy 23/09/2017
How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power, by Chris Bryant (source: The Guardian) 10/09/2017
UK Housing Crisis Can Be Solved by Rich Land Owners 08/09/2017
Simple homes in the British countryside that need protecting 01/09/2017
100s of leasehold National Trust tenants told they face ground rent increases of up to 10,000% 26/08/2017
British property divide revealed as over five MILLION own second homes despite 250,000 homeless 21/08/2017
Sale of Peak District National Park woodlands, a sign of growing “privatisation” of countryside, campaigners say 19/08/2017
Australia: New totalitarian law forces end to Sydney tent city protest 18/08/2017
Grouse moor landowners take criminal toll on our birds of prey 16/08/2017
Homeless charity Crisis reveals over 12,100 UK households are squatting 10/08/2017
The Grenfell inquiry must feel the collars of the developers carving up our cities 14/07/2017
European Parliament approves ban on pesticides in environmentally-sensitive areas 03/07/2017
Peoples’ Food Policy – www.peoplesfoodpolicy.org 02/07/2017
Defra secretary Michael Gove indicates departure from largess of subsidies to large landowners & refocus on environment & countryside stewardship in post-brexit UK farm subsidy system 02/07/2017
Homeless people living on canal banks and forced to fish for their food in desperate struggle to survive 26/06/2017
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg’s wife’s ancestral home benefits from £7.6m state rescue 23/06/2017
Summer of 1645: Trials of the Leveller founder, Freeborn John Lilburne 16/06/2017
The Autonomous City by Alexander Vasudevan review – in praise of squatting 07/06/2017
Sweden has just listed the entire country to stay at for free on Airbnb 27/05/2017
Victory for Tent City homeless as judge slams Bristol City council 11/05/2017
Michael Davitt and the Land League: an Irish Revolution 30/04/2017
Poole council lied, DID issue tent eviction notice, despite initial claims it was ‘fraudulent’ 20/02/2017
Squatters’ Handbook 14th edition (2016) – a 21st century entrepreneur’s bible 04/02/2017
‘Squat Belgravia’ target Qatari general’s £17m townhouse hours after being evicted from £15m mansion 02/02/2017
‘The housing crisis has spread to everybody’, says former boss of Shelter 27/01/2017
LandBase – new centre for land based skills in Dorset 26/01/2017
Haringey lives torn apart and assets lost: this is what a Labour privatisation would mean 20/01/2017
Thousands sign petition for royal family to pay £369m Buckingham Palace repairs themselves 15/01/2017
NEW: Squatting In Britain 1945-1955 Housing, Politics and Direct Action by Don Watson 18/12/2016
Tragedy of unknown homeless man found ‘frozen to death’ in city centre on coldest night of the year 05/12/2016
William Everard: The forgotten man of the English Revolution 27/11/2016
Concerns raised over Brighton and Hove City Council’s biggest sell-off of downland in 20 years 17/11/2016
Mipim UK and BNP Paribas: Property speculators are carving up our cities 14/11/2016
Abolishing Standards Board for England may have undermined planning system 01/11/2016
30 Country estates given £4million subsidy in 2014 for grouse-shooting 01/11/2016
Land for What? – a participatory weekend of learning, thinking and planning practical action around land rights, ownership and usage 23/10/2016
Common Agricultural Policy: Rich List receive millions in EU subsidies (Greenpeace Report) 23/10/2016
Evictions reach new high as 19,000 private renters forced onto streets in just one year 29/09/2016
Neighbours form human chain around Bristol mum’s house to stop eviction 23/09/2016
BURIED: UN slams Tories over UK human rights abuses 20/09/2016
Revealed: Homeless charities ‘complicit’ in rough sleeper deportations 19/09/2016
Private landlords double housing benefit haul to £9.3bn 21/08/2016
Queen Elizabeth has vast, secret, Bank of England shareholding 16/08/2016
Empty homes: graphics show shocking extent of Britain’s unnecessary homelessness 12/08/2016
Passing Clouds eviction: Supporters of Dalston music venue protest outside court 11/08/2016
Queen Elizabeth: A Look at 90 Years of Vast Wealth and Perks 06/08/2016
The Queen just got a 6.5% payrise – but how much will she be paid in total? 24/07/2016
EU Approves three new GM Crops 23/07/2016
Fracking’s affect on Farms Ignored by UK Govt 23/07/2016
Heralding Article 25 : A People’s Strategy for World Transformation 12/07/2016
Guardian: UK housing crisis ‘in breach of Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 12/07/2016
John Manthorpe: ‘Why privatising the Land Registry is wrong’ 10/07/2016
The Global Architecture of Wealth Extraction by Joe Brewer 12/04/2016
Petition to stop the privatisation of the Land Registry 04/04/2016
The Most Socially Just Tax? 18/03/2016
EXCLUSIVE: Duke of Buccleuch’s £10 ‘park levy’ may be illegal 18/03/2016
Seven charged after Yorkley Court Farm group eviction 15/03/2016
National March for Homes, London, Sunday 13th March 2016 12/03/2016
Hippie ‘hunter-gatherers’ face eviction from Steward Woodland commune nr Dartmoor 03/03/2016
A new petition for Land Reform in Wales 13/02/2016
Maybe we need to start with principles: that everyone has a right to a home… 09/02/2016
Right to roam: Countdown begins to prevent loss of thousands of footpaths and alleyways 09/02/2016
Call for new charter to protect Britain’s ancient woodland 15/01/2016
Rural Manifesto launched to challenge the elitism that dominates UK rural policy 13/01/2016
Save the Land Registry! 27/12/2015
Time for a Compassionate Revolution! 11/09/2015
Runnymede Eco-Village in Epic Court Battle – Sept 2015 11/09/2015
International Reclaim the Fields Action Camp 28th August – 2nd September 2015 in Shropshire 05/08/2015
SNP-led Scottish Government unveils radical plans to tackle land ownership inequality 22/07/2015
Video of Peoples’ Parliament debate: “Land ownership: who owns our country?” March 17th 2015 22/07/2015
TLIO yurt at Yorkley Court 9 May 2015 16/05/2015
Citizens Land Security Bill – September 2004 10/05/2015
Green Earth Awakening Camp 2015 May 21st 10/05/2015
Brown NT ‘detectors’ in Wiltshire 10/05/2015
Tues March 17th 2015: Land ownership: who owns our country? 05/03/2015
Richard St George & Roger Kelly: Ecoville 2000 talks now online 28/02/2015
Scottish Land Action Movement 28/02/2015
Bristol tree camp eviction threatened 11/02/2015
Monkton Wyld Family Fun this halfterm – February 19+20 2015 03/02/2015
BBC documentary ‘Bitter Lake’ is ‘too dangerous’ for TV 02/02/2015
FarmHack UK 18th & 19th April 2015, Ruskin Mill farm Gloucestershire 28/01/2015
Neighbourhoods That Work (NTW) 28/01/2015
Reclaim the Fields European Assembly 8-12 January 2015, Nottingham UK 05/01/2015
Welfare Reform is ending the bribe for the Theft of our Land. 20/12/2014
Land Registry: Data For Sale ( by Mike Hannis) 15/12/2014
Look who owns Britain: A third of the country STILL belongs to the aristocracy 04/11/2014
Harold Wilson Oct 1974 Elected On Land Nationalisation Manifesto 18/10/2014
Thousands turn out for ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’ in London (PHOTOS, VIDEO) 18/10/2014
London Anarchist Bookfair Saturday 18th October 13/10/2014
Yorkley Court Open Day 11 October 29/09/2014
Welfare for the Rich: how large landowners & corporations get lion’s-share of UK’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) annual windfall 23/09/2014
Yorkley Court Open Day Saturday 30th August 12 – 5pm 23/08/2014
Yorkley Court Dodgy Eviction Attempt 25/06/2014
Pembrokeshire roundhouse fails retrospective planning application permission? 18/06/2014
Sat12Jul – Who Owns Britain? Bristol Teach-In with Kevin Cahill 17/06/2014
Infrastructure Bill: Act now, sound the alarm, spread the word… any public land could be taken from us and given to developers 12/06/2014
ecological land co-operative 06/06/2014
growyourownhome.org 03/06/2014
Prince Charles strikes another blow for the British republic 25/05/2014
Social & economic polarisation in the UK & London’s role as collateral store-of-wealth & world financial hub 13/05/2014
Cap the Common Agricultural Policy! 13/05/2014
The problem with the EU Common Agricultural Policy – TLIO information briefing 13/05/2014
The long-term trend of cultural apartheid against the gypsy & travelling community 13/05/2014
Land Registry workers to stage 48-hour strike over privatisation plans 11/05/2014
John Pendragon 11/05/2014
New Occupy Political Party 10/05/2014
Land Is Ours recommended Rock Music 10/05/2014
Edge Fund 10/05/2014
Land Registry privatisation plan revealed 06/05/2014
UK Land Rights & Ownership – Bettany Hughes – Breaking the Seal – Enclosures (2000) 05/04/2014
The Land Is Ours – UK land rights teach-ins 03/04/2014
Farmageddon by Philip Lymbery (with Isabel Oakeshott): Book review 07/02/2014
The Take Back the Land Movement 10/01/2014
Yorkley Court Farm 10/01/2014
Thousand-Huts Campaign, Scotland 10/01/2014
Occupy Movement UK 10/01/2014
Lammas Low Impact Ecovillage, Pembrokeshire, Wales 10/01/2014
ENGLISH & WELSH FORESTS: NO PUBLIC SELL-OFF …for now 10/01/2014
Keveral Farm 10/01/2014
Steward Community Woodland 10/01/2014
Diggers2012 10/01/2014
Middlewood Trust 10/01/2014
Grow Heathrow 10/01/2014
Ashton Allotment Action 10/01/2014
Organic Lea 10/01/2014
Bristol Community Farm 10/01/2014
OpenStreetMap is a wiki-like map that anyone in the world can edit. 10/01/2014
Bristol Housing Action Movement – BHAM 02/01/2014
Landmatters Permaculture Project, South Devon 13/12/2013
The UK’s 2nd Domesday Book – the ‘Return of the Owners of Land’ 1872 25/11/2013
Bristol Garden Share 01/01/2013
George Monbiot takes questions at the New Putney Debates 29/10/2012
ANTI-SQUATTING LAW in England & Wales NOW IN FORCE 01/09/2012
Changes to retrospective planning: What the Localism Act 2011 means for Gypsies and Travellers 15/11/2011
The eviction of DALE FARM Travellers Site in Oct 2011 19/10/2011
Land and Freedom Camp, Clapham 17/09/2011
Clapham Land & Freedom Camp 2011 17/09/2011
Bristol Co-Mutiny 12/09/2009
Kew Bridge Ecovillagexxx 06/06/2009
Kew Bridge Ecovillage 06/06/2009
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