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	The Politics of Land - Sokwanele
		Any programme for land redistribution requires two complementary aspects - the removal of land from the over-privileged possessors and its allocation to new people; since these new people should be the dispossessed with no resources, a plan also needs to be in place to assist them to become productive.
		The attempt to designate land committees worked in some places, but these simply became tools of political patronage, and often were totally ignored by powerful individuals who used their muscle to grab whatever they wanted.
		In very few cases have they been given land in their own right (less than 3% of the total land allocated went to farm workers and just over 3% of farm workers were given plots of land).
	www.sokwanele.com /articles/sokwanele/thepoliticsofland_18july2004.html (2973 words)

	The Politics Of Land And The Besieged Lot By Goldy M. George
		Land Ceiling Act has not been properly implemented in India, specifically in adivasi areas.(18) The gravity of the problems of adivasi land alienation has again underlined the need for renewed and vigorous efforts to intervene on various fronts in order that adivasis are not alienated due to the so-called development.
		Land reforms, decentralised resource control, regeneration of soil and water as well as rights to housing, work, education and health are to be at high priorities.
		Land reform, broadly conceptualised as a corrective measure to ensure equitable man-land relationship, implies changes in laws, rules and procedures governing the rights, duties, and liberties of individuals and groups in control as well as utilisation of land.
	www.countercurrents.org /hr-george281203.htm (5514 words)

	David Sirota: Land Politics: Progressives' Big Opportunity in the West - Politics on The Huffington Post
		Considering the fact that many of the 97 out of 100 fastest growing counties in America that Bush won in 2004 are out here and face these issues, Land Politics could be the key to progressives fundamentally changing the national electoral map.
		Remember, in this swing state of Colorado, Weld County is represented by fringe conservative Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R) and is a bedrock Republican stronghold, having delivered 63 percent of its vote to President Bush and 55 percent of its vote to Republican Senate candidate Pete Coors in 2004.
		In Montana, while the surface rights vs. mineral rights politics are similar and where there is growing dissatisfaction with oil/gas companies' encroachment on wildlife habitats, the other issue politically opportune for progressives is the conflict over stream and public land access, as I described in my 2004 Washington Monthly article.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /david-sirota/land-politics-progressiv_b_55201.html (1550 words)

	Online NewsHour -- Land Redistribution in Southern Africa: The Politics of Land Redistribution in Africa
		Land reform is a complex mix of issues, centering on how to redress the effects of colonial rule in a region where land ownership and
		South African land politics are entwined with the country's controversial domestic policies of the past.
		Political leaders have been hesitant to directly condemn the actions of Zimbabwe's President Mugabe, who many in the public view as a radical trailblazer for the rights of the fl and landless.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/land/impact.html (2215 words)

	Sprawl politics: JEBush leading land gluttony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Land development is the engine of economic growth in Florida, which has become a developer's dream.
		The largest private land owner in Florida is the highly profitable St. Joe Company, with some 850,000 acres, and it has benefited greatly from the Bush brothers.
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	www.whoseflorida.com /misc_pages/JEBush_leading_land_gluttony.htm (1965 words)

	Politics: Land Commission
		But the land commissioner is one of the most powerful and important of the state's constitutionally created offices, overseeing the administration of all the state's land, and the management of the billions of dollars which it generates for the state's Permanent School Fund, Permanent University Fund, and veterans programs.
		Raymond points out that the land commissioner can not decide on policy changes that require legislation, like school vouchers, but he is hopeful that his lifelong privilege as a former representative to lobby from the House floor will help.
		He also points out that since the land office makes most of its money from oil and gas, his experience in the oil and gas industry would be key to generating money for the state.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue09/pols.land.html (1230 words)

	AlterNet: The Politics of Land Grabbing
		Now the highest Court in the land has determined that those dreams are worthless, and, no matter, how hard you work and save to buy that land and that home, a municipality can come in and take it for any reason.
		That land was taken, not to give to a private corporation, but for a park for community use.
		If a developer were to build a shopping mall on land zoned for commercial retail zoning, that developer would have to pay a hell of a lot more for that dirt than he would for single-family residential dirt.
	www.alternet.org /story/23351 (3115 words)

	Cynical politics of land tax - Editorial - www.smh.com.au
		That is why discussion of land tax changes has abandoned all reference to equity, economic efficiency and the squaring of government finances.
		Nor does it explain why land investments for retirement should be quarantined from tax, provided they fall under an arbitrary value, while other investment savings such as cash and shares should not.
		Sixty thousand bills have been sent to land tax virgins and 340,000 questionnaires have been sent to other owners of second properties to test their tax liabilities.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Editorial/Cynical-politics-of-land-tax/2005/02/23/1109046987889.html (922 words)

	Politics news, Irish politics, Ireland politics, Irish political news, party politics - politics.ie :: Politics.ie
		In a 15 minute statement to the Tribunal Mr Ahern said that he never accepted a bribe in his 30-year career in politics.
		He referred to leaks to the media, some of which involved forged documents, and said they were designed to damage him politically and personally.
		He said allegations by Tom Gilmartin that he received bribes from Owen O'Callaghan were false, commenting that he was still sore over some of the allegations, many of which he said had never entered the public domain.
	www.politics.ie (1041 words)

	NOW with David Brancaccio. Politics & Economy. Gun Land - Overview \| PBS
		Al Fuqra is one of the suspected terrorist groups mentioned in GUN LAND.
		GUN LAND is a continuation of research which began with KQED/CIR's own hour-long documentary, GUN SHOTS, which looked at how illegal guns get into the hands of criminals in United States.
		GUN LAND is a NOW with Bill Moyers co-production of KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/gunland.html (1112 words)

	TV Land - Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		TV Land begins this 60-minute journey with a look at how it all began when the light-hearted variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour decided to take on the current events and the Vietnam War, and Tommy Smothers rallied to bring the troops home.
		From that moment on, the political landscape continued to evolve with shows like Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, which reflected the hippie counterculture of the late '60s to NBC's portrayal of the president on The West Wing.
		Political candidates John Edwards, Howard Dean and John Kerry all appear on the show in hopes of increasing voter turnout.
	www.tvland.com /press/oct5_04.jhtml (908 words)

	agr008 Kenyan land reform shows few positive results
		The coastal districts of Kenya are an area with a long history of private land ownership which is also situated in a country with one of the most comprehensive efforts at land tenure reform dating from the colonial period.
		One of the principle arguments of the proponents of land indivualization is that a title to the land would give farmers access to credit, which could be used to modernise land tenure.
		"Land is also given as grants to political elites not for the purposes of economic development and the nurturing of indigenous capital but principally for the purpose of maintaining patronage relations and of securing political loyalty," Kanyinga has observed.
	www.afrol.com /Categories/Economy_Develop/agr008_kenya_land.htm (826 words)

	Desicritics.org: Mohawk Land Claims Ignored Again
		Eight hundred and twenty-seven acres of land on the eastern edge of the reserve was illegally removed from the possession of the Mohawks in 1837.
		The Royal Proclamation of 1763 that stipulated all lands occupied by the First Nations people could only be purchased or leased from them by the Crown (read government now) has been accepted by the Supreme Court of Canada as the law regarding title to disputed territory.
		Since the Justice Department has already stated that the land was illegally removed from the Mohawks there really isn't much to negotiate save for whether it will be the town or the developer who is going to have to refund those who have already plunked their money down.
	desicritics.org /2006/12/12/100155.php (1423 words)

	Politics Books Publications Shopping
		Politics and the Spirit of ChristmasThe Conservative Voice, NC - 11 hours agoGoing to the Federal rule books is no substitute.
		Politics of health care gives doc plenty to discuss on airArizona Republic, AZ - Dec 23, 2006He also books his guests and tries to schedule far ahead.
		Politics, Real Life, and the Crime Novel: An Interview with Author...Blogcritics.org, OH - Dec 22, 2006He encouraged my own writing and the books that I chose to read.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Shopping/Publications/Books/Politics (426 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Politics: Land Development
		Nowhere is this clearer than in Article 2, "Land Use," which makes up nearly half of the total LDC and, among other things, explains the city's 40 different zoning categories (technically known as "base districts"), along with the 15 different overlays (or "combining districts").
		So, even though it may take a developer 10 years to get his act together and build, he would still only be covered by the rules in effect when he conceived the project a decade earlier.
		The other big political factor, not unrelated to the first, is Austin's pride in having tougher standards than other communities - in other words, we have all these hoops for a reason.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol17/issue36/pols.landcode.html (2614 words)

	ROAPE: Review - Resolvable Conflict? Politics of Land in Namibia (Pankhurst) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Politics of Land in Namibia by Donna Pankhurst
		Land reform in southern Africa is a topic of inherent fascination.
		After so many years of the most blatant discrimination in land legislation, forcing millions of rural African people into a form of structural and institutionalized poverty, there is naturally immense curiosity about how this unfair situation might be addressed by fl majority governments.
	www.roape.org /cgi-bin/roape/show/7516.html (141 words)

	Values-based voting transcends politics, geography, Land says - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Land kicked off Christian Citizenship Week at the Kansas City, Mo., campus, focusing on the Christian’s responsibility to participate in and support the nation’s government and political process.
		Land noted that voter registration and education is the purpose of the ERLC’s “iVoteValues.com” initiative, kicked off this summer with a national tour by a tractor-trailer mobile resource center.
		Reflecting on how his parents voted for many years, Land said they cast their ballots strictly according to different political parties and regularly cancelled each other out.
	www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?ID=18963 (500 words)

	SARPN - Land
		A common denominator of those states, which have succumbed to political violence, is the failure of postconflict reconstruction to address the issue of land.
		The central aim of the conference, being comparative in nature, is to gain insight into the nature of policymaking concerning land not only at national level but also at the level of regional, inter-state systems.
		The conference is linked to a three-year project on land policy in Southern Africa jointly sponsored by the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and the London School of Economics (LSE).
	www.sarpn.org.za /documents/d0001075/index.php (444 words)

	OpinionJournal - Wonder Land
		Almost as quickly, a floodtide of media-made melodrama and political recrimination broke the levees of perspective that once helped to keep volatile public events in manageable context.
		Some proportion of Iraq's Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leadership spent the past year, such as during their November reconciliation conference in Cairo, in painstaking conversations to reach the accommodations that allowed the extraordinary parliamentary election on Dec. 15.
		America's enemies and competitors will be popping their champagne corks next weekend in celebration of a Washington whose first response to undeniable threats is to disadvantage the other political party.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/dhenninger/?id=110007721 (910 words)

	OpinionJournal - Wonder Land
		If there is one remark that a tourist through the political life of the United States hears constantly--from political professionals to amateur enthusiasts--it is that our politics has never seemed more polarized.
		In a political world less overdosed on emotional steroids, people would cut Gen. Boykin some slack, allowing the Pentagon to suggest that he go easy on the fire and brimstone in public.
		I think many people who don't get paid for waging politics are becoming quite frustrated with dysfunctional legislatures that are now polarized--as in Congress or in California--essentially along the cultural faultlines created by 30 years of allowing judges to pre-empt the broader community's ability to discover, or re-examine, its social beliefs.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/dhenninger/?id=110004214 (1063 words)

	Hopkinton Area Land Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Land Trust was established in response to the many growing issues that are facing our rural town and surrounding areas.
		Property owners who give land or grant conservation restrictions on their land to the Land Trust will benefit from reduction in real estate and income taxes.
		The Hopkinton Area Land Trust is presently playing a very important role in that balancing act, and your involvement and support is vital to our success now and in the future.
	www.hopkinton.org /community/groups/halt.htm (540 words)

	Venezuela politics: Land “revolution” threatens property rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The law gives authorities the right to confiscate land that is “unused”, a term with a cloudy definition that encompasses agricultural land that is not being employed to grow the correct crops, as determined by the government.
		But such statements are undermined by allegations made by senior officials that many large landowners have illegally obtained title to their lands through corrupt deals with past governments.
		The land policy comes on the heels of the passage into law last December 7th of a controversial media bill.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1320740/posts (814 words)

	No Land Grab: Brooklyn Politics Archives
		Council must approve land use changes and, during the fight over the stadium, Bloomberg had sought to keep the project out of the land use process.
		CUNY's John Mollenkopf, the political scientist, Park Slope resident, and computer whiz, has put together a hugely useful set of electoral-district by electoral-district maps of the outcome of the race to replace Major Owens in Brooklyn's 11th congressional district.
		It is also necessary to state that I hope Councilmember Clarke will use her new political leverage to hold developer Bruce Ratner accountable for significant modifications in the Atlantic Yards project, and also hold the Empire State Development Corporation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority more accountable for their decisions regarding this project.
	www.nolandgrab.org /archives/brooklyn_politics/index.html (14652 words)

	Land Use Politics
		Existing buildings are reused rather than eating up greenfields.
		Land use is coordinated with transportation to link people with jobs and reduce traffic and pollution.
		Pedestrian access to services is improved to insure a healthy street life and to end the isolation of those without cars.
	www.ci.rochester.ny.us /mayor/speeches/landuse/15.cfm (141 words)

	Study Examines the Politics of Land Use and Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		They will use the political process to protect their neighborhoods from unwanted development - and virtually all development is unwanted.
		This correlation dramatically increases the political importance of growth and development as a key political issue.
		Considered the premier political analyst in U.S. land-use and zoning conflict resolution, The Saint Consulting Group began operations in 1983 and today has offices around the US and in the UK.
	www.buildings.com /Articles/detail.asp?ArticleID=2914 (1092 words)

	Land Use Politics
		The result of over forty years of sprawl is that the built-up portion of Greater Rochester now occupies the same size land area as Greater London.
		The difference, of course, is that Greater Rochester has one-tenth the population of London.
		In other words, essentially the same number of people are responsible for larger and larger amounts of roads, real estate, sewers, water, and other infrastructure.
	www.ci.rochester.ny.us /mayor/speeches/landuse/6.cfm (79 words)

	SARPN - Land
		Land reform, distribution of land and institutions in Rural Ethiopia: Analysis of inequality with dirty data
		Presentations to the Parliament portfolio committee on land and agriculture on the situation of housing and tenure for farm workers in newly resettled areas
		Land reform, distribution of land and institutions in Rural Ethiopia: Analysis of inequality with dirty data, Bereket Kebede, 12 Oct 2006
	www.sarpn.org.za /rpp/land.php (1949 words)

	Land Refrom in Southern Africa
		Recent seizures of commercial farms and other land in Zimbabwe and increasing militancy among land activists in the region, suggests that a radical demand for land remains strong among much of the rural population.
		This paper explores the dynamics of land reform and land policy in Southern Africa with special consideration of the radical struggles for access to land and resources.
		Land Tenure in the United States: Returning African-Americans to the Land
	www.acaoterra.org /display.php?article=172 (214 words)

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