by Richard Giles
For a century now the Georgist movement has dropped what was originally named the “single tax” and adopted “Land value taxation.” There are some who think that the two concepts are really the same. However, there is a difference. Continue reading
by Lindy Davies
…sang Ella Fitzgerald,
I love the moonlight
I love the old-fashioned things
the sound of rain upon a windowpane
the starry song that April sings…
It’s a romantic love song — but, there are some who might be tempted to suggest it as a theme song for the poor old Georgists. We live in a newfangled era — have for at least a hundred years. My goodness, people, by this time a century ago the Model T Ford was already seven years old (and Progress and Poverty came out twenty-nine years before the Model T)! Continue reading
Readers may have noticed a lack of Letters to the Editor in recent issues. It’s not because we don’t want them! It’s a situation that has puzzled me. I mean, I don’t flatter myself that thousands of people drop everything to read every word the minute their GJ arrives — but I have no reason to believe that our number of opinionated readers has fallen that far. Continue reading
I am a big fan of Star Trek (I admit it). Week after week, the Captain’s
intrepid crew faces a situation that gets bad, then worse, then they really get thrown a curveball, until by the final commercial break, not just the starship but the entire bloody universe is in mortal peril — I mean, the shields are down to 1%, ten heavily-armed Zarlengan vessels are attacking, half the crew’s minds have been hijacked by ectoplasmic communists and Spock can’t stop crying. Continue reading
by Bill Batt
An opportunity arose this past June to join an educational visit to Cuba under the sponsorship of The Nation magazine. For eight days some 24 subscribers and staff of this weekly had an extraordinary entrée to political insiders, academics and journalists. Cuba is experiencing a socio-political transformation, and there is good reason to believe that the veneration of José Martí can be linked with interest in Henry George. Continue reading
by Kidane Hiwot
During the regime of Haile Selassie, 1930-1974, land was owed by a tiny minority of elite feudal lords and urban landowners. Most of the people were their tenants. The rights of land ownership — for use, or for investment — were recognized as inalienable rights of every member of society. Continue reading
by Edward Miller
In July, we held a special conference in the heart of San Francisco, at the Impact Hub, a trendy space for people to collaborate. We marketed it to young people looking to form voluntary communities and co-living arrangements. It was a big success. Continue reading
by Lindy Davies
This year the CGO conference finally went back to Cali: Newport Beach, California, just minutes away from the John Wayne/Orange County International Airport, prodigiously accessible by automobile. Few conference-goers, alas, got to drive the eight miles or so to the beach, because the schedule was unusually full. Continue reading
Alanna Hartzok, the Earth Rights author and activist (and current General Secretary of the International Union) is running for the US Congress in Pennsylvania’s 9th district — and she is not a “ceremonial” candidate in this race. Continue reading
by Lindy Davies
In his well-crafted report on last July’s IU conference in London, Bill Batt included the following news from the Business Meeting:
From its inception, the name has been ‘The International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade,’ even though it is widely understood that the words “Free Trade” have today become linked to an economic philosophy of neoliberalism with corporate trade rules that are detrimental to labor and the environment. Continue reading