Land News - 30 April 2008
The 12-step programme
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Institute a land value tax: Projects such as the Jubilee line in London,
the building of motorways, roads, parks and other publicly funded
amenities
have ...
<http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/prem_sikka_/2008/04/the_twelve-step_programme.html>
Alien justice
The Observer - UK
A learned man, he knows the idea has lain largely unexplored by
politicians
since the death of the American economist Henry George, a century earlier.
....
<http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/mark_braund/2008/04/alien_justice.html>
Tax plans to get Green light
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
That makes the position of the two Greens crucial, and by accepting an
amendment which mentions their preferred option of a land value tax in the
context of ...
<http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/news/display.var.2203095.0.Tax_plans_to_get_Green_light.php>
CARP extension impact doubted
Visayan Daily Star - Dumaguete City,Philippines
.... of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program on the dismantling of
the
land monopoly and in ending widespread poverty and hunger in the
countryside. ...
<http://www.visayandailystar.com/2008/April/25/topstory6.htm>
Letting dwindling oil, gas go cheap
Regina Leader-Post - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
All around the world, oil-producing countries are raising royalties and
taxes in an effort to capture more of the economic rent (monopoly profit)
that is ...
<http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=cf89d3cc-eb0d-4218-b788-e9ab991b567f>
Landless stake claim to village land
Times of India - India
DALEL SINGH WALA (MANSA): The struggle for social parity in the rural
heartland of Punjab has led to an uprising of a different kind as landless
labourers ...
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chandigarh/Landless_stake_claim_to_village_land/articleshow/2973761.cms>
The West Cannot Teach Zimbabwe Democracy – Mugabe
LeadershipNigeria - Abuja,FCT,Nigeria
There is not even land tax to charge them, but we have been considering
that. And we— it’s when they sell and make a profit and then on the
basis of the ...
<http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/product_info.php?products_id=26433&osCsid=62b0873135b46f548351cb4da49f4372>
Fewer people own more land in Latin America-UN
Reuters - USA
Landless Brazilian peasants and rural workers demonstrated this week to
demand swifter land reform -- part of broader protests this month
including
ranch ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN17461263>
Taking by force
Brazzil.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has been slow to honor his promises of
settling landless peasants in Brazil and land invasions have increased
throughout ...
<http://www.brazzil.com/p16sep96.htm>
Locational Disadvantage
Mainstream - New Delhi,New Delhi,India
The life of landless people and weaker sections, who worked on these
fields
as daily wagers, has become worse after the land acquisition. ...
<http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article666.html>
The Return Of Land Hunger
CounterCurrents.org - India
Whereas zamindari and absentee landlordism was successfully abolished, the
distribution of land declared 'surplus', or beyond legally permissible
holdings, ...
<http://www.countercurrents.org/mohanty160408.htm>
Landless march on govt
iAfrica.com - Cape Town,South Africa
The Mawubuye Landless people's movement on Monday marched to the Western
Cape local government offices in Robertson demanding delivery on
government...
<http://iafrica.com/news/sa/759151.htm>
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