We will be holding two workshops, one on land storytelling with poet Chloe Tenesha Giles, and the other on land for reconnection with Rachael Milliner who is a coordinator for London’s Right to Roam. The workshops will give people the opportunity to get creative with words to tell stories about how land affects us, and dig into how we can reconnect to land and each other. Come and find us if you are going to be there!
Land for Reconnection
4-5.30pm on Friday 5th July @ Fire in the Belly
Our land and our bodies. What does it mean to have roots in place? To feel connected to Land? What structures are stopping this from happening? In this workshop, Shared Assets and Right to Roam London ground us in a conversation on land justice. We will share ways we relate to land, and build collective intentions for how we can make the land system just.
Land Storytelling
6-7.30pm on Friday 5th July @ Fire in the Belly
Join Jamaican-English poet Chloe Tenesha Giles and land justice activists from Shared Assets in this session where we will use storytelling and poetry to reflect on land, place, and belonging. This session will be a lighthearted writing and spoken word session, where we look at the connection between people and places through concepts, characters, and worldbuilding.
We will signpost people to campaigns and organisations doing land justice organising, of which here are some:
National initiatives
Shared Assets - supporting the land justice ecosystem in the UK; get in touch to join or set up a local land justice group
Land in Our Names (LION) - racial justice and repair for land justice
Right to Roam - join local trespasses and campaigns
Three Acres and a Cow - learn about land rights through song
at the root - resources on systemic injustice to repair relationships to land
Who Owns England - researching land ownership across England
Black Girls Hike - opportunities for Black women to explore and reconnect with nature
Streets Kitchen - solidarity with homeless people
Local or regional initiatives
Parks Watch Scotland - monitoring land management practices on Scotland’s national parks
Braich Goch - offering a place in mid-Wales for respite to people experiencing injustices of the migration system
Hiking in Skirts - Brighton-based queer and trans trespass group
Stonehenge Heritage Action Group (SHAG)
The Stars are For everyone - Dartmoor wild camping campaign
Don’t Lose Your Way - Ramblers campaign to save rights of way
Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS)
Knowle Deserves Better - Stop the Broadwalk Tower Blocks in Bristol
London initiatives
People’s Land Policy - manifesto for a people’s land policy who are helping to run London’s First Land Justice Fair on 21st July
Community Food Growers Network (CFGN) - London network of food growers
Planet Repairs Action Learning Educational Revolution (PRALER) - with popular education circles about land justice at Wolves Lane, London
Unions and Housing Action
Greater Manchester Tenants Union
Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (HASL)
Section of Architectural Workers (SAW)
Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT) - union for landworkers
Palestine
Abolitionist and Feminist groups
Feminist Fightback - anticapitalist feminist collective
Sisters Uncut - direct action collective
Climate Action
Reclaim the Power - action camp 8th-13th Aug
Axe Drax - York based action group against Drax Power Station