permaculture

[Paul Cereghino <paul.cereghino@comcast.net>]

Can anyone provide an example anywhere in recorded history where 
non-violent resistance led to effective and meaningful redistribution of 
post colonial land ownership?

Paul Cereghino, Puget Sound, USA

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

> Charles de Matas wrote:
>  
>
> > I think a major problem in latin american countries is land tenure and 
> > availability of land.  Many "farmers" are really just agricultural workers, 
> > forming a proletariat.  They may have little or no land of their own and 
> > have to work for others at minimum or sub-minimum wages.  I've heard that 
> > Mexico has one of the better land distribution systems in latin america, and 
> > in other countries land distribution is more skewed towards larger ranches, 
> > estates, plantations etc.
> >   Here in Trinidad, despite the downsizing of the sugar industry, the 
> > government keeps delaying the distribution of idle lands to former sugar 
> > workers as it promised.  The government also seems to be going ahead with 
> > aluminium smelters which will cause health problems from pollution and also 
> > require hundreds of acres of secondary forest to be cleared.  This is done 
> > in the name of economic "development", but I think in the long run it will 
> > mean more dependency on a few jobs provided by multinational companies who 
> > will make billions in profits.
> >    
>
> Cement plants and pollution associated with their operation in Puerto Rico is 
> a similar scenario.
> Absentee landlords making huge profits at the expense of people living in the 
> plant's locales.
>
> _______________________________________________
> permaculture mailing list
> permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
>
>