A Land Moot

Save the date for A Land Moot! Celebrate stories of land resistance in Scotland and elsewhere, past and current. Come together to unearth all the ways that land injustice is connected to our ongoing crises in housing, climate emergency, cost of living, isolation and reparations. Learn tactics and organise for the present, through radical storytelling, music and dancing, land skills and folk rituals.
Here's a run down of the Saturday afternoon workshops, to give you a flavour of what we'll be chatting about over the weekend:
Section 1 : Tactics for how we get there…

• Ecology of struggle; much of our organising is challenged by conflict over strategy, or a lack of shared strategy. This workshop will look at the diversity of tactics, organisation and strategy we need to tackle these issues and map the Scottish Land/Housing resistance that exists already as an example.
  

• Reclaiming the Narratives; Barbara Wanderley sharing the work of indigenous communities in the Amazon, and Daniel Cullen sharing the process of making theatre which tells the struggles of contemporary Skye. This workshop will look at how film, theatre and storytelling can help reclaim narratives, as part of struggle.
  

• The Common Good; Everyone understands the limitations of funding applications and the damage it is doing to our organising. This workshop will present some existing alternatives, which could provide alternative ways to finance this work. Common Good Funds, Glasgow Wealth Redistribution Scheme, Radical Routes and Edge Fund.
  

• The Laws of the Land; SCAALP presenting a legal briefing on squatting and occupation, Brian Garvey presenting legal mechanisms within Scotland which already offer potential and exploring legal mechanisms we could use from elsewhere in the world.
  

Section 2: What is the culture we build along the way…

• Language of the struggle; Col Gordon sharing language and ways of being from Scots Gaelic culture, which embody many of the principals we currently have but struggle to articulate and Babs McGregor talking about Gaelic language/cultural resistance and how it relates to land and housing resistance.
  
• Comradeship & revolutionary love: Learning from the Kurdish Women's Movement about how they build the personal as part of collective struggle, have accountability within their organisation and why love and friendship are core principles of their movement
  

• Collective economies; Once we take back the land or housing, how do we challenge the individualised ways of living we have all grown used to? Knoydart CIC presenting on shared growing and housing projects, Diana on Migrant Economies, Jyoti from LWA on food growing on squatted land
  
• Seeds and Plantcestry; where land is at stake, plants are our teachers. Learn about the role of seeds in resistance and struggle, in different times and places. A practical seed saving workshop and a guided discussion of food, ecology and belonging.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

GalGael Trust, 15 Fairley Street, Govan, United Kingdom