Property Taskforce is commited to studying and confronting the barriers individual property rights pose to indigenous sovereignty, ecological governance, and political freedom.
Central America
Property as Ontology | Ecological Commons | Land Reclamations | Central America
Territory, Autonomy, and Defending Maize
Submitted by kev on Sat, 2006-10-28 19:29.
Originally published in GRAIN,
Aldo Gonzalez is an indigenous person from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where community organisations are leading a major resistance movement against the contamination of native maize by transgenic seeds. The movement is guided by the ancestral relationships between people and their natural surroundings. Politically, the resistance movement is linked to the struggle for autonomy by and for local communities, and is rooted in a particular indigenous vision of the world. In Oaxaca and in other Mexican states, defending maize is a cornerstone of defending a community’s autonomy.
Structural Adjustment Programs | Africa | Central America | South America | Asia | Global
The Destructive Agrarian Reform Policies of the World Bank
Submitted by shiri on Sat, 2006-10-28 19:12.
This report is the beginning of my education on the relationship between the WB and private propertization schemes. The most damning report I've read so far is George Caffentzis' "Tale of Two Conferences," which is also posted on this website. Caffentzis accuses the WB of responding to the worldwide revolts against Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) by pushing common property arrangements as a way of controlling indigenous resistance. However, this report on the destructive agrarian reforms of the WB focuses mostly on the sale of land, rather than on the promotion of common property as a subversive method of propertization. These methods are described here in this excerpt from the report:
