Land grabbing generally refers to large-scale land acquisitions
Close your eyes. Now, think of your home. What are you picturing? Maybe you’re picturing a certain room or building, or quite possibly your own backyard. Maybe it’s a general area, like your city or town, rather than a specific location. But whatever you’re picturing, it’s probably a physical place. Your place. Now, imagine it’s gone.
That’s a land grab.
Land grabbing generally refers to large-scale land acquisitions, whereby companies, governments, and individuals buy up large tracts of land in poor, developing countries. This process dislocates and displaces the people who live on the land, without compensation or a voice in the matter.
In an attempt to rectify this injustice that has gone on for far too long, Oxfam has enlisted the help of Coldplay and their fans.
Oxfam, an international organization that works to fight poverty and injustice worldwide, is in the process of launching a new campaign called Oxfam GROW. The GROW campaign is an attempt to persuade the World Bank to take a leading role in fighting against land grabs. The British band Coldplay is helping to spearhead the initiative through a new fan-fueled music video.
Directed by Mat Whitecross, Coldplay’s longtime video director, and set against an acoustic audio recording of Coldplay’s song ‘In My Place,’ the video asks for fan submissions that echo the theme of displacement. Fans can submit videos and photographs in which they are doing something normally done at home, i.e. shaving, in the totally ‘wrong place.’
I wanted to create the feeling of people being out of place in order to illustrate the suffering that so many people experience because of land grabs, explained Whitecross.
Fans can go to the ‘In My Place Film’ site, by March 20th, to submit their films and photos. Whitecross will then stitch together the fan content for an exclusive video to play along with the song.
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- Land grab: SIT arrests three in separate caseson November 30, 2023 at 2:58 pm
Panaji: The special investigation team (SIT) probing land-grab cases arrested three persons on Thursday in three different cases registered at the Map.
- Who’s Buying Nebraska? Corporations, investors grabbing giant chunks of Nebraska farmlandon November 30, 2023 at 2:58 pm
LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. The next year, the nonprofit, tied to ...
- Land grabbing case: SIT arrests mastermind, 2 otherson November 30, 2023 at 11:47 am
PANJIM: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to investigate land grabbing cases has yet again arrested the mastermind Mohammed Suhail alias Michael Fernandes and two others. According to ...
- Gathoni Wamuchomba Accuses Ruto’s Housing Project of Being a Land Grabbing Schemeon November 30, 2023 at 3:21 am
Gathoni Wamuchomba, the outspoken Githunguri MP, maintained her criticism of President William Ruto, her party leader, particularly opposing the housing levy.
- Oyo monarch seeks collaboration among security agencies against land grabbingon November 29, 2023 at 11:32 pm
Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Sen. Lekan Balogun has sought collaboration among security agencies to tackle land grabbing menace in Oyo state.
- Imax CEO: Studios In “Land Grab” for Release Dates After Strikes Endon November 29, 2023 at 7:14 pm
Our summer slate is almost completely booked up for 2025,” Richard Gelfond told an investors conference as Hollywood restarts production again after the actors strike was settled.
- Secrecy over Campbelltown Council’s cost of formal inquiry into Adelaide Hills Council land grabon November 29, 2023 at 3:59 pm
Adelaide Hill Council and surveyed ratepayers have twice rejected the land grab. Last year, the Local Government Boundaries Commission ignored ACH’s opposition and green-lit an inquiry and this week ...
- Olubadan Challenges Security Agencies Against Land Grabbingon November 28, 2023 at 11:26 pm
The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade, has called on the 2 Division, Nigerian Army to collaborate with other security agencies in the state to end the menace of land grabbing in ...
- Olubadan seeks military help to tackle land-grabbingon November 28, 2023 at 6:01 pm
Olubadan made the call while playing host to the General Officer Commanding of the Division, Maj. Gen. Bamidele Alabi, at his Alarere residence in Ibadan.
- The myth of land grabbingon November 24, 2023 at 10:00 pm
Why the president and chief justice are making a mistake of trying to resolve commercial disputes using ethnic lenses THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The Chief Justice, Owiny Dollo, was quoted in ...
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- DMU staff member joins fight for Barbudan land rightson November 30, 2023 at 1:38 am
A campaigner from De Montfort University Leicester is facing an "anxious wait" to hear if an appeal her sister has lodged against land development in Barbuda will be upheld.
- Land grabbers invade Uasin Gishuon November 28, 2023 at 10:52 pm
Land grabbers have descended on Uasin Gishu's public assets in what the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) now describes as a grabbers' magnet. According to the EACC, the grabbers have been ...
- Full Marx How can we reclaim ‘our land?’on November 24, 2023 at 4:00 pm
It is less a focus of activism today than it was in 1867 when Karl Marx (or rather his translators) coined the term “land-grabbing” or in 1881 when ... Incidentally Marxists today are not against ...
- ExxonMobil’s Land Grabon November 23, 2023 at 10:56 pm
Attacks on Venezuela by the USA and its allies include 930 illegal sanctions that shut the country out from international finance blocking it from buying ...
- EACC recovers public land valued at Sh10bn from grabbers in Mombasaon November 21, 2023 at 7:14 am
EACC has exposed a land-grabbing scandal in Mombasa County, where public property worth over Sh10 billion has been illegally acquired by private entities.
- ‘No climate justice on occupied land’: Man grabs Greta Thunberg’s mic over pro-Palentinian chantson November 13, 2023 at 3:35 am
Various climate groups have marched in solidarity with Palestine - though some are divided on how to address the Israel-Hamas war.
- Money or Sustainability: Choose Oneon November 8, 2023 at 4:00 pm
Phoebe G. Barr ’24 is a History and Literature concentrator in Lowell House and an organizer with Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, an organizing partner of Stop Harvard Land Grabs. Her column ...
- Asansol Farmers Live in Fear of Land-Grabbing Gangs, Agriculture Takes hiton November 7, 2023 at 7:46 pm
Agriculture has been severely impacted with farmers in constant fear of criminals grabbing their land. Large industrial warehouses and residential plots have appeared on agricultural plots. On the ...
- Matsamo Traditional Council’s acting chief Shongwe cautions against land grabbing during cultural eventon November 7, 2023 at 4:00 pm
Addressing the over 28 000-strong crowd, the acting chief of the Matsamo Traditional Council, HRH MM Shongwe used the opportunity to caution against land grabbing as this hampers service delivery ...
- Govt officials in forest land grabon November 3, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Men collect firewood from Mabira Forest. Of the original 900 hectares of Namyoya Central Forest Reserve, less than 400 hectares are intact because of human activity. PHOTO/AFP An investigation by ...
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