(Photo credit: net_efekt) Land grabbing generally refers to large-scale land acquisitions
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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- Based on Military Intelligence input, Pune police bust land grabbing racketon May 26, 2022 at 2:14 am
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- ‘Land-grab, razing opponents homes, stealing ancient books’ — the 93 cases Azam Khan faces in UPon May 25, 2022 at 4:59 pm
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- ALIND complains of land grabbingon May 24, 2022 at 7:55 am
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- Opinion: The problem with President Joe Biden’s 30 by 30 land grabon May 22, 2022 at 9:00 am
I read the Deseret News report which spoke of Mitt Romney and other Congressional leaders concerned by President Joe Biden’s “30 by 30 Land grab”. The federal government already owns millions of acres ...
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- ‘Govt spineless on wetland land barons’on May 26, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Delegates attending a consultative meeting on the protection of wetlands in the capital yesterday said there was need for stronger policies which save wetlands from private land developers.
- An Indigenous patrol in the Amazon won a 'Green Nobel' after they took gold miners operating on their land to court — and wonon May 25, 2022 at 7:04 am
The Cofán's Indigenous patrol hunts for signs of trespassing gold miners, and has ultimately put the brakes on more than 52 gold-mining projects.
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- A GOP power grab shatters 30 years of political progress for Black voters in Galveston Countyon May 20, 2022 at 6:12 am
Republicans dismantled the only Galveston County commissioners precinct in which voters of color held political clout.
- Texas GOP power grab threatens “biggest regression in minority voting rights” since Civil Rights eraon May 20, 2022 at 4:30 am
This article originally appeared on The Texas Tribune. TEXAS CITY — Miles inland from Galveston's beaches and colorful vacation homes, a group of Black men dribble and jump on a ...
- Kherson’s puppet governors call on Russia to annex the cityon May 11, 2022 at 7:57 am
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Informal tenure often involves squatting, where households occupy a parcel of land that belongs to someone else, state Jan K. Brueckner and Harris Selod, «… while paying no financial ...
- U of T prof's research and advocacy focuses on land grabbing – and those fighting iton May 2, 2022 at 8:07 pm
Published in The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography, Mollett’s latest chapter, “Resistance against the land grab,” traces the lives of Garifuna Defensoras, women who serve as land and ...
- Victorian food-bowl seat up for grabs in three-way fight over water and jobson May 1, 2022 at 10:30 am
“Support the farmers, support the land in a way where it’s not making ... the Nationals and the Liberals can run against each other. And Nicholls is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ...
