In order to achieve this we will Link up We want to see Take non-violent direct action to contest land To join the information sharing, action alert Provision of suitable free sites for gypsies and ownership and use peaceful civil disobedience Diggers list, founded in 1999 diggers350- travellers, the right to squat disused homes/land to support local campaigns [email protected] - For UK land related Protection of boaters’ rights, with river & canal Hold conferences & commission expert reports talks & convergences, fill in the form below. bank allotments, fair mooring & licence fees To add a donation please include cheque/PO to Retain a Parliamentary land rights lobby group ‘The Land Is Ours’ or donate at tlio.org.uk For An end to the sell-off of public land to private to draw up parliamentary bills and legislation to old school annual donation please fill in the developers and speculators bring about universal access to land standing order form overleaf. All social and private housing to come with a Lobby to enforce Article 25: 1, of the Universal Name ______secure tenancy, offering better if terminated Declaration of Human Rights. Establishing Address ______Government building enough quality public minimum secure legal standards of housing. housing to accommodate the entire population ‘Everyone has the right to a standard of living ______adequate for the health and well-being of ______All new homes, including flats, to incorporate at himself and his family, including food, clothing, least a 10 pole allotment immediately adjacent housing, and medical care and necessary social ______Maintain, extend and enforce rights of way services, and the right to security in the event of Phone(s) ______unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, Openness about land owned by the monarchy, old age or other lack of livelihood, in ______an end to crown immunity & FOI exemptions circumstances beyond his control.’ 25, UDHR Email ______A 'Use It Or Lose It' programme where empty Study history to promote traditional forms of ______buildings are forfeit or put on a tax escalator, tenure such as Scottish crofting, collective land where the owner can lose title after one year management and common rights What you think our campaign should focus on Confiscation of best sections of largest feudal Foster co-operative businesses to provide ethical ______and commercial estates for public settlement land-based employment & volunteer experience ______An end to mega-farms and industrial agriculture Promote and develop links and exchange ______& A mandatory, publicly owned, land registry programmes with land rights groups in other Yr experience/personal interest/skills/expertise Open access to land managed by charities such countries where equivalent movements exist as The National Trust and English Heritage such as Brazil and Indonesia ______Taxation of luxuries, not necessities; adequate Contact us resources for government to house people ______Phone: 07786 952037 - email: [email protected] Publicly owned nationalised infrastructure such comment on our website tlio.org.uk snailmail ______as water, gas, NHS, electricity, banking and c/o BHAM, 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, BS2 8JP. railways. With services provided at or near cost ______To make a small annual donation please fill in A sense of history the mandate below, strike out the £20.00 figure. Enclosure had a devastating impact on post- Standing Order Mandate Medieval society producing cheap labour for the To: the manager [Bank/Building Society Name] industrial revolution. But landlessness and ______destitution for millions is back today with robotic mega-cartels taking our jobs & post- [Your bank/building soc. address]______2008 bailout ‘austerity’. ______Postcode ______Land is a free gift to mankind, so landed gentry like the Dukes of Westminster & Buccleuch Please pay the sum of £20.00/£ ____* donation should not be ‘owners’, but custodians of their to The Co-Operative Bank, 13 New Road, vast estates. The Diggers, Chartists, Highland OXFORD, OX1 1LG. For the credit of: The Crofters, Irish Land League & the British Isles’ Land Is Ours, sort code 08-90-38, account other freedom fighter visionaries inspire us to The Land Is Ours number 50013380, immediately on receipt of roll back enclosure, the most unjust privatisation a land rights campaign for Britain this instruction and continue to pay this sum of them all, until everybody has a secure home. annually on today’s date until further notice. The Land Is Ours campaigns peacefully Account to be debited [your name] ______Land banking and speculation for access to land, its resources and the ______While some of us are desperate to get on the decision making processes affecting Sort code: ______unaffordable housing ladder, other individuals them, for everyone, irrespective of race, Account number ______& companies own so much land they don’t age or gender. know what to do with it. The stock market Land for homes: Today’s date ______bubble has made land a safer investment, for Signature ______those who have no intention of ever using it. planning for low-impact countryside settlers; stopping places for travellers; space for low- This Standing Order Mandate supersedes any People are assets, not liabilities cost and self-designed housing in cities previous standing orders to The Land Is Ours. Land for life: *delete as appropriate We want to move away from an ever-increasing dependence on money for food and other a right to roam; protection and reclamation of We want to see an explosion of market-gardens essentials, toward providing all life’s essentials common space; people power in planning and and smallholdings, with travellers encouraged to for free, like water still is in the Irish republic. In public enquiries; mandatory land registration stay on road verges. This and other marginal principle no one should have to pay for anything Land for livelihoods: public land to be planted with perennial crops which is theirs by right under Article 25 of the and forest gardens for national food security. UN Declaration of Human Rights. access to the land’s raw materials; publicly maintained town & country workshop spaces; The Land Is Ours was originally set up in 1995 Churchill’s much vaunted Land Tax (LVT) high standards of animal welfare; break-up of by writer George Monbiot to campaign for what would tie us even deeper into the money system mega-farms and worst offending feudal estates we do want, rather than against what we don’t :)