In order to achieve this we will Subscribe We want to see Take non-violent direct action Annual subscription is £20, for which you get a The government building enough quality public snailmail spring newsletter, invitation to talks housing to accommodate the entire population Support local campaign groups in the UK which subscribe to our aims & convergences, and added to our information An end to the sale of public land to private sharing and action alert email list. developers and speculators Lobby to enforce Article 25: 1, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by developing To subscribe please fill out this form and post All council and social housing to come with a minimum legally enforceable standards of to TLIO, c/o PRSC, 17-25 Jamaica Street, secure tenancy housing with secure tenure. ‘Everyone has the Bristol BS2 8JP. along with either a £20.00 right to a standard of living adequate for the cheque/PO made out to ‘The Land Is Ours’ or A 'Use It Or Lose It' programme where empty for annual fill out standing order form overleaf. buildings are forfeit or put on a tax escalator, health and well-being of himself and his family, where the owner can lose title after one year including food, clothing, housing, and medical Name ______care and necessary social services, and the right Address ______All new homes, including flats, to incorporate at to security in the event of unemployment, least a 10 pole allotment immediately adjacent sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or ______Protection of gypsy and traveller rights other lack of livelihood, in circumstances ______beyond his control.’ Article 25 UDHR Protection of squatters rights in empty buildings ______Hold conferences & commission expert reports Protection of boaters’ rights, river and canal Phone(s) ______bank allotments, fair mooring & licence fees Promote traditional forms of land tenure such as Scottish crofting, collective land management ______Responsible, public-interest use of land owned and common rights by the monarchy. An end to all crown immunity, Email ______including under FOI act Draw up parliamentary bills, legislation to put ______land reform on the statute book A mandatory, publicly owned land registry What you think our campaign should focus on Set up co-operative businesses to provide ethical Open access to land managed by charities such land-based employment & volunteer experience ______as The National Trust and English Heritage Foster and develop links and exchange ______An end to mega-farms and industrial agriculture programmes with land rights groups in other ______A Parliamentary land rights lobby group countries where such movements exist such as Yr experience/personal interest/skills/expertise Brazil and Indonesia Taxation of luxuries, never life’s necessities; ______adequate resources for government to house Contact us people and maintain/enforce all rights of way ______Phone: 07786 952037 – email: [email protected] ______Publicly owned nationalised infrastructure such comment on our website – www.tlio.org.uk as water, gas, the NHS, electricity, banking and TLIO, PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol BS2 8JP. ______railways. With services provided at or near cost To subscribe please complete form overleaf. The Land Is Ours was originally set up in 1995 Then either fill in the mandate below or send a by writer George Monbiot to campaign for what cheque/PO for £20.00. we do want, rather than against what we don’t :) To make a small annual donation please fill in the mandate below, strike out the £20.00 figure. People are assets, not liabilities Standing Order Mandate We want to move away from an ever-increasing dependence on money for food and other To: the manager [Bank/Building Society Name] essentials, toward providing all life’s essentials ______for free, like water still is in the Irish republic. In [Your Bank/B.S. branch address]______principle no one should have to pay for anything ______which is theirs by right under Article 25 of the ______Postcode ______UN Declaration of Human Rights. Please pay the sum of £20.00/£ ___ (donation)* Land banking and speculation The Land Is Ours to The Co-Operative Bank. 13 New Road, a land rights campaign for Britain OXFORD, OX1 1LG. For the credit of: The While some of us are desperate to get on the Land Is Ours, sort code 08-90-38, account unaffordable housing ladder, other individuals The Land Is Ours campaigns peacefully number 50013380, immediately on receipt of & companies own so much land they don’t for access to land, its resources and the this instruction and continue to pay this sum know what to do with it. The stock market decision making processes affecting annually on 1st April until further notice. bubble has made land a safer investment, for them, for everyone, irrespective of race, Account to be debited [your name] ______those who have no intention of ever using it. age or gender. ______A sense of history Land for homes: Sort code: ______Enclosure had a devastating impact on Victorian planning for low-impact countryside settlers; Account number ______society producing cheap labour for the industrial stopping places for travellers; space for low- Today’s date ______revolution. But landlessness and destitution for cost and self-designed housing in cities Signature ______millions is back today with robotic mega-cartels Land for life: taking our jobs & post-2008 bailout ‘austerity’. This Standing Order Mandate supersedes any a right to roam; protection and reclamation of previous standing orders to The Land Is Ours. Land is a free gift to mankind, so landed gentry common space; people power in planning and like the Dukes of Westminster & Buccleuch public enquiries; mandatory land registration *delete as appropriate should not be ‘owners’, but custodians of their Land for livelihoods: We want to see an explosion of market-gardens vast estates. The Diggers, Chartists, Highland access to the land’s raw materials; publicly and smallholdings, with programmes for road Crofters, Irish Land League & the British Isles’ maintained town & country workshop spaces; verges and other marginal public land to be other freedom fighter visionaries inspire us to high standards of animal welfare; break-up of planted with perennial crops and forest gardens roll back enclosure, the most unjust privatisation mega-farms and worst offending feudal estates for national food security. of them all, until everybody has a secure home.