A Land Moot 2025
Clyde Community Hall
Glasgow United Kingdom
Last year, a group of us gathered in Ibrox to explore the intersections of social injustice and land inequality.
This year, in the face of emboldened fascism, dispossession, and colonial violence in Scotland and globally, we hold space again for building, resisting, strategising, and embodying our relationships to land.
This is an invitation to moot - to vitalise our assembly, to move from talking towards action. There will be talks, but also workshops, songs, rituals, skills-sharing, creative practices and a ceilidh.
This year, A Land Moot is being co-organised and programmed by a number of working groups: practical commoning, collective economies, land back, food, media, resisting green capitalism and political education. Each group is making space for exploring histories, presents and futures of justice issues converging around land.
This event is part of a long-term struggle towards dismantling concentrated power and ownership and decolonising our relationships to land. We hope to create a space for this movement to take root.
Tickets & Access
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale in hope this can make the event available to a wide range of people while resourcing the work needed to sustain and grow our movements. We invite those who have access to financial resources to contribute toward those with less access to resources.
We have a small amount of funding available to subsidise travel costs for those who need it. If you require support with covering travel, please email scottishhistoriesofresistance@gmail.com with information on where you are travelling from, and how much it will cost.
Program & Schedule
A full program and schedule will be available soon and at the venue. But here is an idea of what to expect from the weekend. This may be subject to a few changes.
Friday, 6pm - 10pm:
Welcome, Food and Ceilidh Hoose, bring a song, story, poem or other to share.
Saturday, 9am - 8pm:
Morning breakfast and opening assembly
Session 1 - choose from one of three sessions.
Collective Lunch
Session 2 - choose from one of three sessions.
Collective dinner
Saturday, 8pm - late
A Land Moot Ceilidh
Sunday 10am - 5pm:
Practical food sessions in the morning, followed by a closing assembly.
Sessions & Working Groups
This year, A Land Moot is programmed by working groups, who have been tasked to create sessions and bring forward ideas, conversations and proposed actions based around the topic. These working groups are:
1. Practical Commons; Building the knowledge and confidence to use land for the Common Good: however that looks in your community. What are the most pressing needs for folk in 2025, and how can we use the tools we have at our disposal? And what can we get away with
2. Food; To think about the role of food as part of the struggle, and how we build alternate systems away from capitalism and colonialism - what are the practical tools needed? What are the resources & knowledge we have? And what do we need to move away from dependence on systems destroying us & the planet?
3. Kids Space; To co-organise experiences for children and young people taking part in the land moot that are aligned with land moot theme and flow and also age appropriate. In the longer term, in what ways can we make our organising spaces more child and young person friendly, bringing in more playful, in the body, shorter time frames, multiple learning styles, outside in nature, hands on, moving, in the present.
4. Health; To consider Ecological Health Justice through the lenses of community farming and the human microbiome. Exploring themes of environmental interplay, economics and access to land, and community capabilities. What do we mean by regeneration and embodiment? What role could a united civil society play? We hope to draw together people working across different environments in Scotland to answer the question: What might an ecological public health framework look like?
5. Housing; To formulate practical demands and skills around our housing rights and responsibilities, the planning system and land ownership to ensure tenants, resident owners, and communities are able to shape our collective common good and neighbourhoods.
6. Media; To workshop ideas for what telling our own story will look like going forward, and how we can use this to question how we engage with the media? How does it fit into our movement, and what are the examples where alternative approaches and forms of storytelling have been successful? How do we begin to develop a network away from the reliance on the mainstream platforms? How do we do so safely?
7. Popular Education; To understand, embody and mobilise through popular education: a key cornerstone in every revolution! Finding ways to make collective learning about land inequality, history, and international land struggles accessible and engaging, while building a growing popular education movement in Scotland around land. Meeting people where they stand, valuing creative and different forms of knowledge, learning about examples of the role of popular education in different movements (Glasgow and beyond), learning to decolonise from within imperial centres by reconnecting the political and the personal through alternative pedagogy methods.
8. Collective Economies; To build systems within our own lives and communities which defy individualism, as the individualisation of money, care, health etc is a huge barrier to our abilities to organise in a sustained way. We also need to challenge the culture that activism or organising are jobs or hobbies, separate from our own livesthe personal is political!
9. Resisting Green Capitalism; To explore how green capitalism is reshaping land use in Scotland through carbon offsetting, reforestation, and energy transition projects - and how they can reinforce patterns of land exclusion and wealth inequalities.
10. Land Back / Land Walk; The land walk itself will be many things: a walking Assembly for thinking through the strategies for land back, including through indigenous leaders participation, as well as an opportunity to go slow with other activists, organisers and lovers of the land. We will also share stories, learning and conversations from the "Land Walk"
11. Internationalism; Building on existing connections with La Via Campesina, the international peasants movement, this group explores how our movement in Scotland can learn from and connect with international struggles for land. When it comes to land-based resistance we are so far behind our comrades in most other countries and we have much to learn in terms of political strategies and tactics, both from those working in the context of peasant- and of industrialised economies. We will also consider the ways in which Scotlands economy relies on and exacerbates land and labour exploitation elsewhere, and how we can build meaningful solidarity with those fighting for land across the world. |
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Clyde Community Hall
41 Whitefield Road
Glasgow G51 2YB
United Kingdom
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Dates
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| Start: | Friday Oct 10, 2025 6:00 PM | | End: | Sunday Oct 12, 2025 5:00 PM |
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Accessibility
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The event will be spread between a number of venues. Please contact us if you have any specific concerns regarding accessibility. There are accessibility guides available for venues we are using.
Depending on schedule and what you choose to attend, it is possible you will have to travel in between multiple venues, all within a 10 minute walking distance.
Each venue will be wheelchair accessible and have an accessible toilet.
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