Land Reform

Unique Indigenous Gathering Issues Hard-Hitting Landmark Declaration

September 25, 2026 Survival International. Organize! Conservation, forced displacement, Indigenous Activism, Land Reform

Nairobi: A unique gathering of Indigenous people impacted by conservation has demanded that “our ancestral lands, including those grabbed for parks and wildlife sanctuaries, be returned.” The Nairobi Declaration, issued today by the newly-formed Indigenous Lands Alliance, also contains a blunt ultimatum to well-known conservation bodies, including WWF, WCS, African Parks, UNESCO and others: “Leave our lands and respect our rights, or else we shall kick you out.” The Our Land, Our Nature gathering brought together for the first time Indigenous representatives from around the world who are fighting conservation – to expose the human cost of fortress conservation and carbon markets, while presenting Indigenous-led alternatives.

Northeast Los Angeles Created A Playbook To Fight Speculators

September 2, 2026 Oscar Perry Abello, Next City. Strategize! Credit Unions, Housing, Land Reform, Los Angeles

Helen Leung opened escrow just a few days into the new year. She had six months to raise $8.3 million, and while she had some ideas, she didn’t know yet where she would find all of it. Over the previous 18 months, Leung had raised more than $5 million, successfully closing escrow for three acquisitions on behalf of LA Más, the northeast Los Angeles nonprofit where she’s executive director. Based in the largely Latino and Asian neighborhood known as Frogtown, LA Más wasn’t even in the housing market until about two years ago. But Leung feels pressure to move even faster.

Flamingo Revolution Takes Flight Against Trump Family Land Grab

August 25, 2026 C. J. Atkins, People's World. Resist! Albania, Flamingo Revolution, Land Reform, Trump Family

Sazan Island sat off-limits to ordinary Albanians for most of the 20th century. Enver Hoxha’s government turned it into a naval fortress, part of the Cold War policy that kept the country isolated from both the capitalist and socialist worlds. When that era ended in the early 1990s and the base was decommissioned, the island was left to the cormorants, the Mediterranean monk seals, and the flamingos that wade through the shallows of the Karaburun-Sazan Marine Park. For over three decades, it was one of the few pieces of the Albanian coast that belonged to no one in particular—which is to say, it belonged to everyone. Now, the island is up for sale.

Protesters Tear Down Albanian Development Site Fences

June 14, 2026 Reuters, Yahoo News. Resist! Albania, Billionaires, Land Reform, Privatization

Some 200 protesters on Saturday tore down metal and razor wire fences surrounding a ‌luxury development site on Albania's Adriatic coast, in another ‌sign of growing anger against construction in environmentally sensitive areas. Albanians have been protesting for weeks against a planned luxury resort backed by a company linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, near Vlora, which is famed for its flamingos and a turtle nesting ‌site. On Saturday, villagers from ⁠Rrjoll, located in an area of sandy beaches and pine forests in northwestern Albania, protested against another ⁠project not linked to Kushner, saying it was being built on their confiscated land.

Colombian Peasant Organizations Launch National Strike

May 22, 2026 Jim Byrne, Fight Back! News. Resist! Colombia, Land Reform, National Strike, Peasants

Dozens of peasant organizations, unions and community organizations representing tens of thousands united for a national strike on May 20 to demand agrarian reform. Marches and street blockades in the countryside and major cities like Bogotá, Valledupar, Cartagena, Popayán, Montería and Sincelejo have shut down transportation and some services. The demands are for the creation of a judicial body that would have the power to resolve land disputes, advance agrarian reform, and for the Colombian Congress not to sabotage debate on the matter.

Former Strip Mine Was Planned For A Prison Until Locals Stepped In

May 19, 2026 Taysha DeVaughan, Next City. Strategize! Indigenous Activism, Land Reform, Prisons, West Virginia

Last year, the Appalachian Rekindling Project made a big move. We bought 63 acres of former strip mine land in Letcher County, Kentucky. Our $169,000 investment disrupted plans for a $505 million federal prison complex that would have caged over 1,300 people, stopping a cycle of harm that has defined Appalachia for too long. This would have become the fifth federal prison in eastern Kentucky, part of a pattern that treats incarceration as economic development. Data collected in 2021 by The Sentencing Project illustrates that Black and Indigenous people are incarcerated at four to five times the rate of white people for similar offenses.

In Defence Of A Basic Land Income

February 2, 2026 Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Resilience. Create! Basic Income, climate crisis, Ecological Collapse, Land Reform

By now, most people have heard of basic income in its various forms and meanings. However, there has been little analysis of whether such proposals, aimed at ensuring minimum coverage of citizens’ basic needs, generally as a complement to the universal basic services that constitute the Welfare State, remain viable from the point of view of industrialised countries’ socio-economic metabolisms, which are facing a drastic decline in the coming years1. Some of us supported this type of proposal in the 1980s and 1990s, but then becoming aware of the unsustainability of the system on which it necessarily relies...

Data Center Boom, Corporate Extraction, And The Obfuscation Of The Land Question

January 31, 2026 Austin Cole, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Data Centers, Extraction, Land Reform, Sovereignty

The years 2024 and 2025 saw a massive upswing in the number of data centers planned and constructed in the United States and globally as part of the race to develop computing infrastructure for “Artificial Intelligence” technologies. 2025 also witnessed a massive increase in protests, lawsuits, and movements against data center construction throughout the U.S., with at least 25 data center projects cancelled across the United States (four times the number in 2024) in 2025, and up to 25 more canceled in the first three weeks of 2026.

De-Commodifying The Soil

September 12, 2025 DarWeaver, Resilience. Create! Decommodify, Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Land Reform

During high summer, I do my best to get up early and be out in the field with the sheep before the sun reaches its full power. From May to October, I move them onto fresh pasture every few days, a rhythm that keeps me attuned to the needs of the land and disperses their manure evenly without allowing them to compact or overgraze any one section. A field like this feeds more than the livestock that graze it. Throughout the growing season, it offers nourishment for countless insects, pollinators, reptiles, ground-nesting birds, water tables, and traveling wildlife. The fertile soil, chest-high grasses, and flowers offer refuge for all of us here on the ridge. As I survey the awakened landscape, my gratitude for the living gifts of this world shifts to grief.

How Farmers Defeated The Land Grab By India’s Karnataka State

July 19, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! Farmers, India, Land Reform, Mass Action

On the 1,198th consecutive day of protest, farmers in Karnataka declared victory on July 15, forcing the south Indian state’s government to retreat from the plan to grab 1,777 acres of fertile, multi-cropped farmland across 13 villages. Meeting their representatives on Tuesday at Vidhana Soudha – the seat of the legislature in the state capital, Bangalore – Chief Minister (CM) Siddaramaiah announced the scrapping of land acquisition notices, recognizing the farmers’ struggle against the land grab as “historic”. He acknowledged that “writers, artists, communist party, people’s movements,” and the historically oppressed Dalit castes had all struggled alongside the resisting farmers, whose leaders emerged from the conference hall, triumphantly whirling their green neck scarves overhead.

India: Farmers Near Victory After Almost 2,000 Days Of Protest

July 9, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! Development, Farmers, India, Land Reform

On the 1,188th consecutive day of protest against the forcible land acquisition from the farmers of 13 villages in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, its Chief Minister (CM) Siddaramaiah met with movement leaders on July 4. As a “gift” to the CM, the delegates carried mangoes, flowers, and seasonal vegetables grown on their threatened land, highlighting the fertility of the 1,777 acres his government is acquiring, allegedly for real estate interests. Hinting at his willingness to retreat, his office released a statement after the meeting, explaining that his government needed 10 days to examine the legal complexities involved in reversing the acquisition process for which his government had already issued the final notices this April.

South African ‘Refugees’ May Find The Grass Is Not Greener In America

May 17, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Donald Trump, Land Reform, Racism, Refugees, South Africa

Not much is publicly known about the nearly 60 white South Africans who arrived May 12, 2025, at Dulles National Airport in suburban Washington DC, fleeing what the Trump administration describes as racial discrimination and political violence from the country’s Black majority. But in classifying South Africa’s privileged white minority as “refugees” and fast-tracking their path to US citizenship, the White House, in typical fashion, overlooks a salient point which is that statistically speaking, South Africa is arguably the most comfortable place in the world for white settlers to live while the US is among the least.

Landless Workers’ Movement Pressures Government With Occupations

March 17, 2025 Carolina Bataier, Resumen English. Resist! Brazil, health, Land Reform, Landless Workers, Unions, Women's Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs

A series of actions on Thursday led by women from Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST, in Portuguese) increased the pressure on the Lula government (Workers’ Party) to push agrarian reform policies forward. The mobilization occurred in 24 Brazilian states where there are MST activities and was part of the Landless Women’s Day of Struggle,previous to the MST’s Red April, massive actions to demand agrarian reform in the country. Landless families occupied areas in the states of Bahia and Ceará that did not comply with the social function provided for in the Brazilian Constitution.

One First Nation Is Taking Back Control Of Their ‘Devastated’ Lands

February 25, 2025 Zoë Yunker, The Tyee. Create! Canada, Environment, First Nations, Land Reform, Land Restoration

Kasandra Turbide finds her footing on the dry, rocky exterior of Sinkut Mountain, one of the highest peaks in Saik’uz First Nation territory, an hour’s drive west of Prince George. The forest below looks mottled, as if it has been gouged by giant razor blades and painted in shades of yellow and green. “This is what we’ve been up against historically,” says Turbide. “And it’s what we’re trying to save.” Located in the saucer-plate indent of the Nechako Plateau, Saik’uz territory is home to one of B.C.’s few truly wide-open skies. Lumbering glaciers etched its sloping hills millions of years ago, forming fertile valleys threaded with rivers, lakes and wetlands. More recently, the territory became an easy-access buffet for the farming, mining and logging that gripped the region. And now, after a century of persistent development, many of its ecosystems risk collapse.

Kentucky Activists Bought Land Where Feds Want To Build A Prison

February 16, 2025 Jared Bennett, Louisville Public Media. Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Kentucky, Land Reform, Victory

A community building and land restoration group bought a plot of Letcher County land that’s been targeted for a new federal prison. The Appalachian Rekindling Project paid local property owners $160,000 in late December for 63 acres near the community of Roxana, according to a deed of sale obtained by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. The land makes up a portion of the 500-acre site where the Bureau of Prisons planned to build an estimated $500 million prison complex to incarcerate more than 1,300 people.

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