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Dear friends,

This email is to bring to your attention a new 
network called the <http://landjustice.uk/>Land 
Justice Network. As you might elude from the 
name of the network, we are talking, working and 
taking action around land issues as a 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/our-common-ground-statement/>Common 
Ground through which campaigns and activism on 
food and farming, housing, public and community 
space, energy generation, nature, environment and 
climate change can come together. There is a lot 
of work already going on as you'll see; if you 
have ideas and energy to work on these issues and 
find yourself inline with the 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/our-common-ground-statement/>Common 
Ground statement please join us.Â

Working groups within the network are:
    * Land mapping work - finding out who owns 
land and putting pressure on the Land Registry to 
become fully transparent with its data.
    * Education and outreach - exploring best 
practice getting people to engage with and think 
about issues of land ownership, distribution, taxation, control and rights.
    * Policy - to write and campaign for a 
People's Land Reform Act; making our voices heard 
inside the parliamentary system.
    * Direct action and land occupation - 
research and action a land occupation to 
highlight key issues around land and raise awareness of our work.
The network launch meeting was in June following 
on the momentum of the 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/2017/04/25/storify-from-the-london-land-for-what-event/>London 
'Land for What?' in November 2016Â which drew 
over 250 people with smaller gatherings in 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/events/>Peterborough, 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/events/>Yorkshire, 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/events/> Newcastle, 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/events/>Oxford and 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/events/>Norwich in the lead up to that conference.

To date such events have been hosted by a 
coalition of <http://cfgn.org.uk/>Community Food 
Growers Network, <https://justspace.org.uk/>Just 
Space, 
<http://landworkersalliance.org.uk/>Landworkers’ 
Alliance, <http://neweconomics.org/>New 
Economics Foundation, 
<http://radicalhousingnetwork.org/>Radical 
Housing Network, 
<http://sharedassets.org.uk/>Shared Assets, 
<http://www.lcnc.org.uk/>London Community 
Neighbourhood Co-operative and 
<http://threeacresandacow.co.uk/>Three Acres And A Cow.

As interest grew, it was felt by this coalition 
that a network was a better vehicle to take 
actions forward and the variety of attendees at 
the June nef meeting confirmed the passion and 
breadth of interest that this topic attracts and 
some of the great work already being undertaken.

Please get in touch if you or your network/group 
and interested in joining, you might want to read 
this page first -Â 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/join-us/>https://www.landjustice.uk/join-us/




Upcoming events


You are welcome to attend the next meeting of the 
'land occupation working group' in 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/2017/10/06/ljn-planning-meeting/>London 
this Sunday 22nd October to plan 'Dukes and 
Peasants', a day of action in spring 2018.

Our next network meeting is in 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/2017/09/20/next-network-meeting-and-leicester-land-for-what-information/>Leicester 
on Saturday 11th November and more details can 
be found 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/2017/09/20/next-network-meeting-and-leicester-land-for-what-information/>here. 
This will also include a half day Land for What? 
session including the debut of 'Understanding the 
housing crisis in folk song and graph'.




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