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News ReleasesDemonstration against the forced transfer of 40,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel 2013-07-05 Independent Jewish Voices - Toronto On Friday, July 5 at 4 PM, a demonstration will be held across the street from the Israeli consulate in Toronto, protesting the Israeli government’s plan to evict up to 40,000 Bedouin from their anc... Sources Select ResourcesBanacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and JiguamiandoInterchurch Justice and Peace Commission Article 2012 Hands off the Land Alliance This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporation’s actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities’ collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato r... Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation ExpansionChatterjee, Pratap Article 2015 CorpWatch A Bangladeshi company has been accused of using armed men to evict ethnic minority communities in order to expand a tea plantation in Sreemangal in northeastern Bangladesh. Borneo's Killer DamsMega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide Stephenson, Amanda Article 2014 Counterpunch Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of th... Burkina Faso: climate change, land grabs, and revolutionRoss, Alexander Reid Article 2014 The Ecologist The economic tensions between local producers and international powers that have contributed to the revolutionary dissatisfaction with the establishment in Burkina Faso can be found in virtually any c... Champion of Chinese Farmers' Rights Jailed for Forging Official DocumentsBranigan, Tania Article 2014 The Guardian Villagers pack the court to applaud woman given two years in prison for trying to prevent land grabs and illegal demolition. Colombian farmers risk death to reclaim lost landBrodzinsky, Sibylla Article 2013 Guardian Weekly The government wants to correct decades of 'land reform in reverse'. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country's displaced peasants. Commercial Pressures on LandWebsite International Land Coalition A portal created by the International Land Coalition informing evidence based debate on large scale land-based investments and their alternatives. Connexions Library: Africa FocusWebsite 2009 Connexions Information Sharing Services Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa. Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabsVan Schaik,Anne;Ojo,Godwin Article 2015 The Ecologist With the deadline for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. In Nigeria however, forest... The End of Poverty?Diaz, Philippe Film 2008 Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries. Ethiopia's stolen land.'A common property of the nations and peoples' Stienne, Agnes Article 2013 Le Monde diplomatique Government plans to reform Ethiopia’s agriculture failed to consider the country’s peasant culture, subsistence farming and basic needs such as water to drink. Instead, it let the agrifood and financi... Farming Under the WallStories of Palestinian Farmers in the West Bank Mancini, Emma Article 2013 Counterpunch The difficulties of Palestinian farmers as their lands are placed behind the Wall. Honduras: Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of landAbbott, Jeff Article 2015 The Ecologist Pristine beaches, clear Caribbean waters, coral reefs, fertile land ... such is the homeland of the Garifuna people, writes Jeff Abbott. It's so lovely that outsiders are desperate to seize ever more ... How Human Rights Watch Covers for Companies in ColombiaDown Where the Death Squads Live Kovalik, Daniel Article 2013 CounterPunch Human Rights Watch fails to name the names in its recent report on Colombia entitled, “The Risk of Returning Home, Violence and Threats against Displaced People Reclaiming Land in Colombia.” And, this... How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights AbusesU.S.-Colombia Mass Displacement Policy Succeeding Kovalik, Daniel Article 2012 CounterPunch The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would lead, indeed by design, to the immiseration and mass displacement of rural peoples, especially Indigenous and Afro-Colombian. The article explores the dis... In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herdersDenyer, Simon Article 2015 Washington Post China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles. Indian agribusiness sets sights on land in east AfricaVidal, John Article 2011 The Guardian Indian investors plan to spend $2.5bn on acquiring vast tracts of cheap farming land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commonsAchanta, Pushpa Article 2015 Ecologist India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal... Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explainedTahhan, Zena Article 2017 Aljazeera Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so m... Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in EuropeJoan Article 2015 Cooperativa Integral Catalana The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of publ... Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola OutbreakWallace, Rob Article 2015 Independent Science News Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context. Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedomRose, Julian Article 2015 Ecologist At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agr... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015Land seizures and land take-overs Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Connexions This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015Climate Change and Social Change Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Connexions This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a produ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Article 2016 Connexions Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appe... Palm Oil company plan to slow deforestation 'another land-grab'Colchester, Marcus Article 2014 The Ecologist A palm oil company's 'forest conservation' programme in Indonesia has ended up being a second land grab, seizing resources from local communities' control. A Short History of Primitive AccumulationFrom Adam Smith to Angela Merkel Perelman, Michael Article 2013 Counter Punch In Capital, Smith’s concept of “original accumulation” appeared as a word that could mean either original or primitive. Then in the English translation of the English translation of Capital “primitive... They Came to Take a County: Land Seizure Agitators, Propagandists, PoliticiansFite, Katie Article 2016 CounterPunch Thanks to the Bundy Gang, public lands advocates became aware of elements of the Land Seizure movement that had been operating in the shadows. The curtain was drawn back on networks of agitators and p... The True Gaza BackstoryIt's About Land, Stupid Fisk, Robert Article 2014 CounterPunch How come all those Palestinians – all 1.5 million – are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn’t they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out – or fled ... Twenty-First-Century Land GrabsAccumulation by Agricultural Dispossession Magdoff, Fred Article 2013 Monthly Review Land grabs -- whether initiated by multinational corporations and private investment firms emanating from the capitalist core, sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, or state entities such as Chin... Twiga Farm: The story of a Kenyan land grabRinsum van, Leila Article 2014 Pambazuka News On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful evi... U.S. ElitesThe Original Gangsters Alexandrov, Nick Article 2016 Counter Punch Donald Trump is at home in the underworld. Tom Robbins writes that the de facto GOP nominee "has encountered a steady stream of mob-tainted offers that he apparently couldn't refuse" in his decades in... Sources BookshelfThe Land GrabbersThe New Fight over Who Owns the Earth Pearce, Fred Book 2012 How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. |
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