"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, keeping all the existing human ratios the same, there would be: 57 Asians, 21...
Raiders of the lost Park by Willie Orr Sat 15 Jan 2005 http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=32882005 ON TUESDAY 22 November 1887, a firm of Edinburgh...
Crofters back hostile estate buy-out http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/33204.html DAVID ROSS, Highland Correspondent February 10 2005 CROFTERS and residents last...
A direct action movement of land occupations on the part of farmers is pushing the land reform process forward. "Peasants are taking land from landowners,"...
Taken from the section "2005, news, events and updates" on Tony Wrench's website http://www.thatroundhouse.info UPDATE Feb 12th 2005 We have received a letter...
Films, food & thought on Land Rights at The Vaults & Gardens Organic Cafe, High St, Oxford (entrance on Radcliffe Square) Sunday 27th February, 7.30pm - ****...
Back at Andrew Bradstock's Diggers Conference in 1999 the representative from the Oxford University Press bemoaned the lack of availability of Winstanley's...
Harry has squatter's rights to Heath home 04 March 2005 Harry Harlowe has lived in his makeshift house near Athlone House since 1987. Marc Mullen A SQUATTER...
Cherished hopes of a "ghost village" on Salisbury Plain becoming a lasting symbol for peace - despite being surrounded by an Army training range - will come a...
Imber peace gathering date correction The main dates in the previous post were from LAST YEAR! Thanks Ruth, for bringing it to my attention. I shouldn't have...
Hi all, The Government's new Sustainable Sevelopment Strategy is out today, and it's completely and utterly VACUUOUS. Talk about a dodgy dossier! I recommend...
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Mar 7, 2005 10:43 pm
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Councils must find land for Gypsies Wednesday March 9, 2005 The Guardian by Patrick Barkham Ref: ...
....but if you want to know the best joke..... Jonathon Porritt (who as chair of the sustainable development commission will have the job of monitoring the...
Hello everybody I'm sending these conference details around in the hope that you might be able to attend and forward the details to anybody you know who would...
The Robert Barton Trust - travellers' support and drop-in - in Glastonbury has had to close its doors while workers do everything they can to find new sources...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=622791 Revealed: the rich landowners making hay on EU subsidies By Danielle Demetriou The...
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Mar 23, 2005 4:59 pm
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16 Algiers St Windmill Hil BS3 4LP 0117 9635309 Sir, It is telling of the pervasive rural influence of the landowning classes that neither the Scottish ...
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Mar 24, 2005 2:00 pm
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Churches slam Tories over plans for travellers -21/03/05 http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_050321ccrj.shtml Churches have said the...
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Mar 28, 2005 5:40 pm
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Please circulate March and public meeting against anti-Gypsy racism Saturday 9th April 2005 Assemble and commemoration at St James's Church, Piccadilly (12...
Maxey L.
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Mar 29, 2005 6:45 pm
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Reminder of story from last year which had disappeared off the Diggers 350 archive. Thanks to Aljazeera. Tony "Thai Muslims say they have legitimate...
News story below. A legal precedent against the 12 year rule on claiming adverse possession? However, I thought the 12 year law had been subsumed by the Land...
Hi all, i've been a member of this group for a while but this is my first posting. just to let you know, there's a small group of us forming a housing co- op...
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p11.htm Privatise Aboriginal land rights? The lessons from Papua New Guinea Green Left Weekly, April 13, 2005. Tim...
MOVING ON: The Gypsies and Travellers of Britain by Donald Kenrick and Colin Clark Ref: www.herts.ac.uk/UHPress/movingon.html This book is a must for anyone...
"Farming Tomorrow" not "Farming Yesterday" Dear Sirs, 'Blessed are the cheesemakers for they shall inherit the earth.' Python, Monty Are the only alternatives...