Campaign Against Land Grab

Dear reader,

Welcome to the weblog of “Campagin Against Land Grabs and Forced Displacement of People”: a UK based solidarity campaign to support peoples’ struggles, all over the world, against land grabs and forced displacement.

Please contact us if you find our work interesting and/or want to work with us.

Cheers.

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Need for the Campaign

Welcome to the Newsletter of the Campaign against Land Grab and Forced Displacement of peoples. There is a need for the campaign because the imperialist agenda of globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation has brought about polices in the developing world that are the root cause of forcibly displacing poor peoples on a massive scale. This is being directed by huge multinationals corporations, from USA in particular, who mostly operate behind the banner of World Bank, IMF and various International Development Agencies. They are instigating industrial projects that are evicting peoples off their land and depriving them of their livelihood. These anti-people policies are set to cause human misery on a massive scale affecting hundreds of millions of people all over the world.

Aims of the campaign

1. Lend support to campaigns against forced displacement of People in Asia , Africa and Latin America .

2. Raise awareness against the imperialist policy of globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation.

3. Oppose establishment of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) by national governments in their respective countries.

4. Expose multinational companies seeking to establish huge industrial complexes for making super profits by using cheep labour in the developing countries and destroy the economy of the local people and their livelihood.

5. Expose multinational companies and national governments engaged in mining projects and other extraction industry that displaces peoples, loot the mineral wealth of the developing nations and cause damage to the ecology and economic well being of the peoples of these nations.

6. Oppose forced eviction of people from slum dwelling in towns and cities.

7. Oppose infrastructural projects, such as multi-lane highways, airports and seaports that give rise to forced displacement of People and cause damage to the environment and economic well being of the peoples of the areas affected.

Objectives of the campaign

To create a broad mass based campaign, uniting different organisations and individuals willing to take part and advance the aims of the campaign.

We will carry out the Campaign through public meetings, discussion groups and not least through the pages of our newsletter.