As no man made the land, so no man can claim a right of ownership in the land. The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air, it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence.
Henry George was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. Wikipedia
This page addresses the single greatest injustice perpetrated on humanity in the history of the world. It is also about the solution to this gross injustice. A solution that will restore social equality and prosperity, and will remove property speculation that so often steals homes and ruins lives. Land Value Tax, otherwise known as Annual Ground Rent.
More money can be raised through this single tax solution than all other taxes put together!
When I discovered this it preoccupied me for some time. I was angry. As I dug deeper, I discovered many other individuals, organisations and groups focussed on this issue and the most obvious solution which to this day is ignored by governments and those in power.
This single tax solution will quell the rampant greed that is destroying the lives of millions of individuals and families.
This single tax solution will allow rents, mortgages, interest rates and retail prices to fall restoring moderation to the cost-of-living and perhaps even enabling people to build savings.
This crime against humanity goes back as far as Mesopotamia (2000 BC), But more recently, around the middle ages, a military aristocracy appropriated land including the commons, and, as in Mesopotamia and days of the Roman Empire around 200 BC, communities ruptured, families broke apart and poverty gripped society.
Land is static. Unlike businesses and other profit-making activities, land cannot be squirrelled away to tax havens depriving hard-working people of public service improvements.
To this day the oppression of society continues under the yoke of wealthy and powerful oligarchs supported by governmemt policies, who reap the benefit of increasing land values produced by the rank and file workforce who receive nothing in return for their labour, except a huge income tax burden. What's left, the net income, is then taxed again and again in the form of VAT on even essential goods, energy for our homes and massive taxes on automotive fuel. What's left barely covers living until the next pay packet is swallowed up by an impenetrable system of corruption and oppression.What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. 
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. Noam Chomsky 
Anguish stalks good honest families of young people and children whose lives have become a prison of uncertainty and torment! A relentless merry-go-round of escalating prices for essential, life sustaining commodities causing a profit bonanza for corporations and a cost-of-living crisis for the rest of us. And those who purport to protect and serve merely turn a blind eye, returning the favours of campaign contributions and political donations. Is it any wonder that the suicide rate is escalating? When your tormenter is out of reach, protected by a wall of manicured sycophants and faceless polluters reaping obscene financial rewards. Too often, the hopeless frustration of it all only finds resolution in the peace of oblivion.
Cities and towns are rife with vacant, derilict and unused properties. A travesty in such a struggling social climate. Land Value Tax would encourage owners of these properties to make them productive in terms of accommodation, or other commercial interests, that would provide homes and urban employment.
One day, perhaps, those betrayers will pay in kind for the path they have chosen. We can no longer pick up the pitch forks and hang our enemies from a gallows in Parliament Square. But we can, if we fight as one, bring about change. Change in the way leaders are elected, change in the rules for those that represent us, and changes to a tax system that for centuries has favoured the wealthy and those who rule. Land Value Tax works, this has been proven time and time again.
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. 
Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Wikipedia
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible 
and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first Black African to hold the position. Wikipedia
