Land Rights Links

Land Rights

UK Land Rights:

The Diggers 350th Anniversary: http://tash.gn.apc.org/diggers_350.htm
and & http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6348805187396861715#
Community Land Advisory Service – who help community groups, landowners and other interested people to find information on making more land available for community use: http://en.communitylandadvice.org.uk/
Open Spaces Society – UK’s oldest conservation society which exists to protect common land and public rights of way: http://www.oss.org.uk/
Ramblers’ Association – UK’s largest walkers’ rights organisation: http://www.ramblers.org.uk
Reclaim the Fields – (an informal educational & exchange network promoting food sovereignty & peasant agriculture, particularly amongst young people and urban dwellers, linked with Via Campesina): http://www.reclaimthefields.org/content/who-we-are[article on Reclaim The Fields published in Issue-8 of ‘The Land’ here: http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/reclaim-fields
].
Henry George Foundation – land value taxation economic & social justice think tank: http://www.henrygeorgefoundation.org/
The Labour Land Campaign – lobbying campaign for the introduction of land-value taxation, affiliated to the Labour Party: http://www.labourland.org/
Land Reform article: http://www.progress.org/nthom81.htm

Scottish Land Rights:

Land Matters – the blog & website of Andy Whiteman: http://www.andywightman.com/
Caledonia Centre for Social Development Land Programme: http://www.caledonia.org.uk/land
Who Owns Scotland – reveals details of land ownsership in Scotland: http://www.whoownsscotland.org.uk/

Travellers:

International Land Rights:

Land Research Action Network – news, analysis & research on Land Reform and Agrarian Change around the world: http://www.landaction.org/
La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement: http://viacampesina.org/main_en/
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) – Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Struggle: http://www.mstbrazil.org/
Rainforest Action Network: http://ran.org/

Indigenous Struggle:

fPcN interCultural – Friends of People Close to Nature: http://www.fpcn-global.org/
General news site of Indigenous struggle around the world: http://intercontinentalcry.org/
Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo – the Intelligent Aboriginal News Service: http://angryindian.blogspot.com/
Survival International – international NGO supporting tribal peoples worldwide: http://www.survivalinternational.org/

Australian Land Rights:

Land is a particularly hot issue in Australia – Aboriginal rights of ‘native title’ have come from an official admission that Aboriginal Culture was, in fact, civilised (in many ways MORE civilised than the brutal colonists who claimed the moral high ground!). As just one example, colonials were somehow able to justify to themselves the hunting down of Aboriginals with horses and dogs as ‘sport’. The last native people in Tasmania were extinguished by being hunted down in this fashion in the first decade of the 20th century.Two central decisions in the last 20 years or so are Mabo and Wik Yorta Yorta native title land claim: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aar/yorta.htm
NSW Aboriginal Land Council: http://www.alc.org.au/

Canada:

Assembly of First Nations (representing First-nation citizens in Canada): http://www.afn.ca/article.asp?id=3
First Nations – Land Rights and Environmentalism in British Colombia – : http://www.firstnations.de/
Settlers in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty News Archive: http://sisis.nativeweb.org/actionalert/index.html#newsarchive
6 Nations Reclamation (the land reclamation site in Caledonia, Ontario by the onkwehonwe native people): http://www.reclamationinfo.com/about/
Turtle Island Native Network – Aboriginal and First Nations news and information network: http://www.turtleisland.org/
Voices of the Canadian Holocaust: http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/

Native American Land Rights: