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Auntie SyzygyGraeme Purves writing on Bella, anent the Land reform consultation. "an attempt to shut down discourses on land and its use, which are uncongenial to powerful vested interests...Perhaps it is time to question whether the Land Commission can any longer be taken seriously as an agent of progressive change? " <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/05/22/lowering-the-expectations-on-land-reform/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/05/22/lowering-the-expectations-on-land-reform/</a>

fulanigirl<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackTwitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackTwitter</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> The question of land reform in So. Africa is complicated. While land needs to be redistributed (leading some Afrikaners to tell Trump they are being persecuted 🙄 ), the government and poor people don't always align on what the best solutions should be. Hammer & Hope talks to some working class Black So. Africans for their views on the new law. <a href="https://hammerandhope.org/article/musk-south-africa-land-reform" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hammerandhope.org/article/musk-south-africa-land-reform</a> Also read Issue 6 which just posted last week. Ed: Spelling

JZ MurdockTrump & Musk call South Africa's equity laws "racist"—but global orgs like the UN, IMF, & World Bank back them as essential to undo apartheid’s legacy. It's not racism to fix systemic injustice. It’s called justice. So WHO's racist? <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BEE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BEE</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GlobalSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalSupport</a>

Auntie SyzygyGreat to see this long saga on Craiganour written up, and well done to Alan for his persistence. Until we know who owns and controls our land, Scotland will not flourish. And until we have proper governance and accountabiltiy, we will get nowhere. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://andywightman.scot/2025/05/craiganour-estate-has-got-away-with-a-criminal-offence/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://andywightman.scot/2025/05/craiganour-estate-has-got-away-with-a-criminal-offence/</a>

WenLand reform is an essential part of Scottish IndependenceAn opinion piece.<a href="https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/</a><a href="http://archive.today/2025.04.25-101323/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://archive.today/2025.04.25-101323/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/</a>? (archive of article)<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScottishIndependence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inequality</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"There is perhaps no organization with a better reputation among leftists around the world than the MST. Its admirers will tell you that the group has managed accomplishments that elude progressive movements elsewhere: It maintains a radical approach, pushing for revolution in the long term while providing homes and incomes for working-class Brazilians in the short; it has adapted to shifting conditions without suffering major rifts; and it fought to get Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s once and current president, out of prison in 2019 and back into power, all while keeping its independence from the ruling Workers’ Party. “We have been very inspired by the MST as a political and social movement,” Enzo Camacho, from the ALPAS Pilipinas, a group that works to organize the Filipino diaspora in Berlin, told me. Belén Díaz, a sociologist and a member of the left-feminist Bloque Latinoamericano collective, put it more bluntly: “The Landless Workers’ Movement is the most respected social movement in the world.”In October 2022, the Workers’ Party won back the keys to the presidential palace and, despite a January 6–like coup attempt by Bolsonaro and his supporters, Lula took up residence the following year. With democracy secured and the reactionaries out of the executive branch, the MST shifted into a more offensive posture: It began to seize more unused land and to occupy illegal farms once again. The movement’s return to its pre-Bolsonaro form seemed to surprise Lula’s administration, and it generated some mainstream attention (...) Though Bolsonaro was defeated in 2022, his Partido Liberal won the largest bloc of seats in Congress. Lula must work with the right-wing forces funded by rich landowners and rapacious agribusinesses, lest his administration risk impeachment or abuses of the legal system"<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/brazil-mst-landless-workers-movement/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenation.com/article/world/brazil-mst-landless-workers-movement/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brazil</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MST</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Agriculture</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MovimentoSemTerra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MovimentoSemTerra</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassWarfare</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Lula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lula</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Bolsonaro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bolsonaro</a>

Simon Brooke"[ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@greenpeace</a> ] gave birth to the non-Indigenous part of the modern environmental movement in the early 1970s and captured the imagination of the world by engaging in spectacular and creative actions to save whales in the north Pacific and to stop nuclear testing. Greenpeace needs to be protected in this critical moment"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeSpeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeach</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ThereIsNoPlanetB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThereIsNoPlanetB</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota</a>

Simon BrookeThis is (part of) why I am, and intend to continue to be, a financial supporter of <a href="https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@greenpeace</a> . I'm not claiming the organisation is perfect – none is – but we need groups with the courage, resources and skills to stand up to the onrushing <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corporate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascist</a> wave.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeSpeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeach</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ThereIsNoPlanetB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThereIsNoPlanetB</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota</a>

Simon BrookeIt is good for people to have security of tenure of their homes; it is good for land to have consistent management over long periods of time. But heritable property is the principle driver of social inequity, and we should not tolerate it.[My opinions, not those of the people writing the survey!]<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> #2/2<a href="https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/</a>

Simon BrookeThe default state of land in Scotland is currently that it is privately owned, and fungible -- it may be traded for money. The default state of land should be that it is common, that is to say inalienable (non fungible) communal property of the local community, and that individuals should have non-heritable life-rent of holdings.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> #1/2<a href="https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/</a>

Michael BaconThis is an outstanding opportunity for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CommunityLandTrusts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommunityLandTrusts</a> and cooperative housing if we had anyone near power who understood their potential.Auctioning this off to developers and it'll provide temporary relief only.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/las-vegas-housing-shortage-federal-land/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/las-vegas-housing-shortage-federal-land/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub</a><a href="https://social.coop/tags/CLT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CLT</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CLTs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CLTs</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coops</a>

LostSettler2026 needs to be a binding vote to leave the UK, set up a Scottish Pound (using the existing Scottish notes) and applying to join the EU and adopt the Euro.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScottishIndependence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Holyrood2026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holyrood2026</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SNP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScottishGreens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeScotlandInEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeScotlandInEU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RepublicOfScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicOfScotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TaxWealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaxWealth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GreenNewDeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenNewDeal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AbolishTheMonarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbolishTheMonarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UDI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UDI</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeOrkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeOrkney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkxit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orkxit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DeliverWhatYouStandForSwinney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeliverWhatYouStandForSwinney</a>

Scottish Independence Podcaststhis week's podcast comes from the Big Land Question conference on <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/landreform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landreform</a> - these are our favourite bits <a href="https://scottishindypod.scot/all-scottish-independence-podcasts-episodes/big-land-question/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://scottishindypod.scot/all-scottish-independence-podcasts-episodes/big-land-question/</a>

Carlos DuarteThursday 23 at 8 AM (Colombian time) this event aims at presenting recently published FAO’s technical briefing Understanding the Status of Land Rights for Sustainable Reconstruction of the Gaza and the West Bank. Further, much can be learned from the experiences of other crisis and post-crisis countries. Here is the agenda of the event. Registration link here: <a href="https://t.co/EItvVbwQEv" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://t.co/EItvVbwQEv</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palestine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colombia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#congo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Landreform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Landreform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#agriculture</a>

Simon Brooke"While recommending a high-tech form of land enclosures via '<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> Growth Zones' (AIGZs), which are about handing data centre developers "access to land and power", it gestures towards the idea that these could drive local innovation in post-industrial towns"This is certainly absolutely delusional. The whole point of the Internet is that there is NO geographical linkage between the location of the servers and the high value jobs.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AIActionPlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIActionPlan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a><a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labours-AI-Action-Plan-a-gift-to-the-far-right" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labours-AI-Action-Plan-a-gift-to-the-far-right</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.online/@RejoinEU" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RejoinEU</a> The penalty should be that the land holding which the path traverses should be confiscated from the current owner and revert to common.Well, all land should, but this would be a good place to start.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a>

Ryan HiteSouth Africa’s inequality crisis: The legacy of apartheid still looms large. Can land reform and governance pave the way for a better future? 🌍 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inequality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://www.ryanjhite.com/2024/12/12/south-africas-unequal-path-exploring-the-legacy-of-apartheid-and-the-struggle-for-equity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ryanjhite.com/2024/12/12/south-africas-unequal-path-exploring-the-legacy-of-apartheid-and-the-struggle-for-equity/</a>

pawkypaul<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@thecommongreen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thecommongreen</a> For those who have an opinion about Scotland's land ownership, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Revive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Revive</a> recently held a conference and has launched a consultation on <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a>. It's astonishing to learn how much land in Scotland is owned by a relatively small number of wealthy people!If a huge number of people living in Scotland respond to the consultation, it will be harder for <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotGov</a> to ignore the findings. Link to the 'Big Land Question' can be found in this article:<a href="https://revive.scot/revives-big-land-question-conference-a-huge-success/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://revive.scot/revives-big-land-question-conference-a-huge-success/</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@thecommongreen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thecommongreen</a> Having now read this, I'm DEEPLY underwhelmed.If you tax the Drumlanrig estate at a fixed proportion of its value, and number 13, Rotten Row, Dull, by Aberfeldy, Perthshire, at the same proportion, then ratio of wealth between the Duke of Buccleuch and the poor agricultural labourers of Perthshire doesn't reduce one iota. It's far more likely to increase, and sharply.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TaxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaxTheRich</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a><a href="https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2014-12-09-me-and-you-and-the-duke-of-buccleuch/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2014-12-09-me-and-you-and-the-duke-of-buccleuch/</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://beige.party/@HarriettMB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@HarriettMB</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/@felicitymartin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@felicitymartin</a> Land really ought not to be owned. Heritable property has no benefits for society and causes enormous harms.Land tenure needs to be secure for individual lifetimes, and assigned on need, not wealth.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a>

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