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  1. Aboriginal Ontario
    Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
  2. The Anarchist Collectives
    Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
  3. Banacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and Jiguamiando
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporation’s actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities’ collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato region of Chocó, Colombia.
  4. Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation Expansion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A Bangladeshi company has been accused of using armed men to evict ethnic minority communities in order to expand a tea plantation in Sreemangal in northeastern Bangladesh.
  5. Milton-Born-with-a-Tooth
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Milton Born-With-A-Tooth is a Peigan-Blackfoot political activist.
  6. Borneo's Killer Dams
    Mega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of the world's highest rates of deforestation; only 5% of its primary forests remain. Now, Sarawak's forests and their inhabitants face another threat: the damming of its rivers for hydroelectric power.
  7. Burkina Faso: climate change, land grabs, and revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The economic tensions between local producers and international powers that have contributed to the revolutionary dissatisfaction with the establishment in Burkina Faso can be found in virtually any country subject to the harsh and cruel conditions of the global land grab and the crisis of climate change.
  8. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
    Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
  9. Champion of Chinese Farmers' Rights Jailed for Forging Official Documents
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Villagers pack the court to applaud woman given two years in prison for trying to prevent land grabs and illegal demolition.
  10. China: Mass protests challenge polluters
    Resistance to rapid industrialization by poisonous industries led to pitched battles between residents and police in many cities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In spite of a media blackout, protests in the Chinese city of Maoming against a PX (paraxylene) plant have proceeded for the past week. In March 2014 a thousand citizens took to the streets in protest, followed a few days later by 20,000 occupying the area around the government building.
  11. Colombian farmers risk death to reclaim lost land
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The government wants to correct decades of 'land reform in reverse'. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country's displaced peasants.
  12. Commercial Pressures on Land
    Resource Type: Website
    A portal created by the International Land Coalition informing evidence based debate on large scale land-based investments and their alternatives.
  13. Connexions Library: Africa Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
  14. A database for the displaced
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    The Kushan Baladi initiative (literally: land title initiative) was founded to create an official register of Palestinian land ownership inside the 1948 boundaries of historic Palestine, now Israel.
  15. A Decentralist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1958
    No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
  16. Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    With the deadline for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. In Nigeria however, forest and farmland continue to be destroyed.
  17. Demonstration against the forced transfer of 40,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    On Friday, July 5 at 4 PM, a demonstration will be held across the street from the Israeli consulate in Toronto, protesting the Israeli government’s plan to evict up to 40,000 Bedouin from their ancestral lands in the south of Israel.
  18. Empire of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
  19. The End of Poverty?
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 2008
    Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries.
  20. Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A land grab is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations.
  21. Ethiopia's stolen land.
    'A common property of the nations and peoples'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Government plans to reform Ethiopia’s agriculture failed to consider the country’s peasant culture, subsistence farming and basic needs such as water to drink. Instead, it let the agrifood and financial giants take much of the most fertile land from peasant farmers.
  22. Farmers resist foreclosures
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
  23. Farming Under the Wall
    Stories of Palestinian Farmers in the West Bank
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The difficulties of Palestinian farmers as their lands are placed behind the Wall.
  24. 5 Broken Cameras
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    A deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank whose lands are being systematically seized to make room for illegal Israeli settlements. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat's cameras, the low-cost film documents Bil'in's weekly protests against land seizures by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers. Neighbors are killed in the protests and demolition equipment mars the landscape while the filmmaker captures his infant son's rapid loss of innocence, heralded by his first words: "wall" and "army."
  25. The Highland Clearances
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  26. Honduras: Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of land
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Pristine beaches, clear Caribbean waters, coral reefs, fertile land ... such is the homeland of the Garifuna people, writes Jeff Abbott. It's so lovely that outsiders are desperate to seize ever more of their territory to develop for mass tourism, oil palm plantations, illicit drug production ... and the land grabs have the full support of Honduras military government, backed to the hilt by Uncle Sam.
  27. How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
  28. How Human Rights Watch Covers for Companies in Colombia
    Down Where the Death Squads Live
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Human Rights Watch fails to name the names in its recent report on Colombia entitled, “The Risk of Returning Home, Violence and Threats against Displaced People Reclaiming Land in Colombia.” And, this is much to HRW’s discredit.
  29. How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights Abuses
    U.S.-Colombia Mass Displacement Policy Succeeding
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would lead, indeed by design, to the immiseration and mass displacement of rural peoples, especially Indigenous and Afro-Colombian. The article explores the displacement of indigenous peoples in the last year.
  30. In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
  31. Indian agribusiness sets sights on land in east Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Indian investors plan to spend $2.5bn on acquiring vast tracts of cheap farming land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.
  32. India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commons
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
  33. International Solidarity Movement
    Resource Type: Website
    A Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.
  34. The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves
    Resource Type: Article
    Levine reviews the transition from peasantry to industrial labour and the impacts of captitalism in workers.
  35. Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
  36. Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    If Jews in France were required to carry identification cards designating them Jews, could not acquire land or buy or rent homes in most of the country, were not eligible for service in the armed forces, and French law banned any political party or legislation calling for equal rights for Jews, would France be widely praised in the United States as a "symbol of human decency" and paragon of democracy?
  37. Israeli Violations of Human Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    Speech by Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one."
  38. Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has always presented a moral problem to the West, as that treatment has violated every law and moral standard on the books.
  39. Israel's Indigenous Invaders
    How Israel Justifies the Immanent Relocation of Thousands of Palestinian Bedouin by Characterizing Them as Invaders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    If implemented, the “Prawer Plan for the Arrangement of Bedouin-Palestinian Settlement in the Negev” will expel an estimated forty thousand Palestinian Bedouin from their current homes.
  40. Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explained
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so much rancour and been called a threat to the prospect of peace in the Holy Land? Follow this journey to find out.
  41. Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds -- at a time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts.
  42. The Land Grabbers
    The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
  43. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
  44. Mozambique's Movement to End Land Grabs
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    To corporations, the forest is only business. To communities, the forest is everything: trees, medicine, culture, spirituality. Land-grabbing and the removal of communities from forests and land breaks the community, displaces access to food and water, and uproots the connection to nature and [local] knowledge. There is an old saying in Africa: the land doesn’t belong to us; it belongs to our children, and the children of our children.
  45. Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
  46. No Land No Food No Life
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2013
    A film which explores sustainable small scale agriculture and the urgent call for an end to corporate global land grabs. This feature length documentary gives voice to those directly affected by combining personal stories, and vérite footage of communities fighting to retain control of their land.
  47. Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agribusiness, the arrival of GMO crops, and the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits while debasing food and bankrupting small farmers.
  48. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
    Land seizures and land take-overs
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
  49. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
    Climate Change and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
  50. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
    Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
  51. Palm Oil company plan to slow deforestation 'another land-grab'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A palm oil company's 'forest conservation' programme in Indonesia has ended up being a second land grab, seizing resources from local communities' control.
  52. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
  53. A Short History of Primitive Accumulation
    From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In Capital, Smith’s concept of “original accumulation” appeared as a word that could mean either original or primitive. Then in the English translation of the English translation of Capital “primitive accumulation” first appears.
  54. Stolen Continents
    The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
  55. They Came to Take a County: Land Seizure Agitators, Propagandists, Politicians
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Thanks to the Bundy Gang, public lands advocates became aware of elements of the Land Seizure movement that had been operating in the shadows. The curtain was drawn back on networks of agitators and propagandists: Constitutional "experts" and sheriffs, "patriot" legislators and self-centered sovereign citizens.
  56. Tianjin, China: a village 'land grab' protest spells trouble for the Communist state
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Rising anger by China's dispossessed (those displaced from their homes, villages and farms to make way for expanding cities and infrastructure) is posing a threat to the ruling regime. At the root of the problem is the state's inability to tackle endemic official corruption and deliver justice to its citizens.
  57. The True Gaza Backstory
    It's About Land, Stupid
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    How come all those Palestinians – all 1.5 million – are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn’t they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out – or fled for their lives – when the Israeli state was created.
  58. Twenty-First-Century Land Grabs
    Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Land grabs -- whether initiated by multinational corporations and private investment firms emanating from the capitalist core, sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, or state entities such as China and India -- are now in the news constantly.
  59. Twiga Farm: The story of a Kenyan land grab
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful eviction from their lands, the Twiga Farm, and recognition of their right to return.
  60. U.S. Elites
    The Original Gangsters
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Donald Trump is at home in the underworld. Tom Robbins writes that the de facto GOP nominee "has encountered a steady stream of mob-tainted offers that he apparently couldn't refuse" in his decades in business. He "worked with mob-controlled companies and unions" while building his empire, the Washington Post reports. So the man has presidential cred. U.S. elites, since the colonial era, have shown contempt for the law: if they weren't ignoring their own codes, they were violating those of other nations or international statutes, or partnering with avowed outlaws. It's not clear, in other words, what distinguishes politicians and businessmen from career criminals.
  61. The Whole World is Watching
    Chinese Diggers?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Thousands of villagers at Wukan, in China’s Guangdong province, are protesting the theft of their communal land by a corrupt local government in collusion with developers.

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