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Professional Land Reform Group

Date : Thursday 7th February 2008

Tom Brake MP and Lib Dem Shadow Spokesperson for Communities and Local Government will address the meeting.

In light of the Government's decision to put on hold its plan to introduce a Planning-Gain Supplement (PGS) and instead its commitment to the introduction of a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), this meeting of PLRG is expected to assume added importance.

Book launch: New edition of Progress and Poverty

The book that inspired an international movement for economic justice

Speakers: Nick Ross, TV Crimewatch Presenter and Journalist; Ashley Seager, Guardian Journalist; Dave Wetzel, Vice-Chair Transport for London and Land reformer

Date: Thursday 22nd February 2007

Time: 6.30-8.30pm – speakers at 7pm

Venue: School of Economic Science, 11 Mandeville Place, London, W1U 3AJ. (Bond Street nearest tube station – see map at the station for directions to Mandeville Place. Buses 6, 7, 10, 13, 15, 23, 73, 94, 98, 113, 139, 159, 189 and 390.)

Henry George’s Progress and Poverty has sold millions of copies around the world. This masterpiece of political economy goes to the root cause of why economic development does not reduce want and poverty.

Modernised to make it readable to today’s busy and complex world, this new edition of Progress and Poverty combines eloquence, scholarship, common sense and a passion for justice. George’s central message is that poverty is not inevitable, but is the result of unjust laws and institutions that deny people equal access to the bounties and opportunities of nature. And these laws and institutions can be changed. In short: The world can be made a better place for everyone – we can progress economically without poverty; we can identify policies that offer solutions to protecting our environment and our valuable natural resources for the benefit of future generations.

In response Bob Drake of the Chicago Henry George School began a five-year process of creating a “thought-by-thought translation” to adapt Progress and Poverty to the fast pace of modern readers, and to shorten the book to about half its original length. His goal was “to say what Henry George said in simpler sentences, to follow his thought process as he presented it.”

‘Political economy has been called the dismal science. As currently taught, it is indeed hopeless and despairing. Yet, in its proper symmetry, political economy is radiant with hope. When understood correctly, the laws governing the production and distribution of wealth demonstrate that poverty and injustice are not inevitable.’

Progress and Poverty

This exciting new edition of Progress and Poverty is as relevant and necessary in today’s world of globalization; environmental destruction and social and economic inequalities that still pollute the world as it was when Henry George first wrote Progress and Poverty.

All welcome.

Book launch sponsored by the School of Economic Science and the Henry George Foundation, and supported by the Professional Land Reform Group.

This edition of Progress and Poverty is available through Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers Limited. Tel: 020 7721 7666. Email: books@shepheard-walwyn.co.uk. ISBN: 0911312986. £9.95pb.

Conference on land tax

The Professional Land Reform Group is organising with the School of Economic Science a conference on land tax with the working title 'Progress Without Poverty – using land wealth to benefit all'.

Date: Saturday 18 November 2006
Time: 10am to 4pm
Venue: School of Economic Science, 11 Mandeville Place, London, W1U 3AJ
Transport links: Near to Bond Street tube station in central London
Cost: £15 in advance (£20 on the door), which includes lunch. The conference will be running at cost.

Speakers: David Triggs, Ian Mason, Dave Wetzel, Heather Wetzel. MPs and others invited.

To register, contact the School of Economc Science or email Dave Wetzel for more details.

Releasing Resources – Using Land Value for Housing

Labour Land Campaign & Labour Housing Group are holding a fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference

Date: Monday 25 September 2006
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS.
Transport links: Two Railway Stations: Piccadilly and Victoria, 15 minutes; Oxford Road, 5 minutes. Bus Stop: Mount Street (in front of the Meeting House). Tram stop: St Peter's Square, 2 minutes.

Chair: Marianne Hood (Labour Housing Group)
Speakers: Tony Benn (Former Labour MP); Chris Holmes (Labour Housing Group); Dave Wetzel (President Labour Land Campaign)

Utilising Land Value Gain for Community Benefit

Professional Land Reform Group fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference

Date: Wednesday 27 September 2006
Time: 6pm Refreshments for a 6.30 start
Venue: Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS.

Chair: Dave Wetzel – Chair of PLRG, Vice-Chair Transport for London and President of the Labour Land Campaign.
Speakers: Vince Cable MP – LibDem Shadow Chancellor; Steve Norris – Head of Conservative's Transport Policy Study Group, former London Mayoral Candidate and Transport Minister to speak on 'Land Value Enhancement Levies - the Key to Crossrail?'; Dr Duncan Pickard – Scottish farmer and landowner who supports Annual Land Value Tax; Heather Wetzel – Labour activist on 'Harrisburg's successful experience of Annual Land Value Tax'; Ashis Choudhury, Secretary of PLRG.