Introducing the Land Justice Network

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Dear friends,

This email is to bring to your attention a new network called the Land 
Justice Network <http://landjustice.uk/>. As you might elude from the 
name of the network, we are talking, working and taking action around 
land issues as a Common Ground 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/our-common-ground-statement/> 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 Common Ground 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/our-common-ground-statement/> statement 
please join us.

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 
London 'Land for What?' in November 2016 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/2017/04/25/storify-from-the-london-land-for-what-event/> which 
drew over 250 people with smaller gatherings in Peterborough 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/events/>, Yorkshire 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/events/>,  Newcastle 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/events/>, Oxford 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/events/> and Norwich 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/events/> in the lead up to that conference.

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

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 - 
https://www.landjustice.uk/join-us/


  Upcoming events


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

Our next network meeting is in Leicester on Saturday 11th November 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/2017/09/20/next-network-meeting-and-leicester-land-for-what-information/> and 
more details can be found here 
<https://www.landjustice.uk/2017/09/20/next-network-meeting-and-leicester-land-for-what-information/>. 
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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