The camp started today with over 40 people joining in. The day started with a circle where people introduced themselves and their campaigns and started a discussion about land, ownership and freedom. (Reports and pics to follow) Rain brought the discussion to an end and a shelter was constructed where people chatted, sang, shared food and shared ideas for the week ahead. It was agreed that the camp would move to outside the church on the corner of Clapham Common Northside and The Pavement.

This is an update on the Land & Freedom Camp: a 7 day open exhibition and demonstration taking place on Clapham Common from Sat 17th Sept til Sun 25th Sept.The aim of the camp is to highlight the issue of the economics of land ownership and the politics and laws regarding the use of the land locally and globally. We want to communicate the myriad of effects that the current system has including:

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   the almost complete restriction of access to land to live (and grow) autonomously and sustainably by common people in the UK and around the world due to laws governing use of the land and/or economic domination of it by the few (despite there being over 5 acres of land for every human being on earth)
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  the ensuing effect of artificial scarcity of available land that the restriction of access creates: driving up the cost of housing and reducing it's availability in both cities and the rural areas. This creates a slave culture where people struggle to make end's meet in crammed urban environments or as for the most of the world's population even to put food in their mouths.
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  the modern legacy of political structures that serve the interests of the land owning establishment which have been previously constructed through history by the same priveleged group.
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  the laws and land grabs which these structures continue to push forward dispossessing people locally and globally: whether it be the UK Gov's agenda to ban squatting, evicting people from their land (Dale Farm) or as in Africa with the forced dispossession of people from the land they depend on for their survival.
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  the completely undemocratic, unsustainable and dangerous control of the natural resources by private corporations for profit, monopolising production of humanities bare necessities: food, fuel, water and so on. The result: food scarcity, destruction of eco-systems, climate change, peak oil etc...

Event: Land & Freedom Camp.
Location: Bandstand, Clapham Common.
Map link: http://bit.ly/nqXhOS
Transport: Clapham Common tube. Buses from Clapham Junction.
Contact: 07963 475 195 for any questions.

On Sunday there will be a stall with info and a meeting to plan action and the strategy for the camp for the week.