Video: Eric Holt-Giménez at the Our Land Symposium

“For most of the world, you have to be willing to die for the land. Or kill for it.” – Eric Holt-Giménez speaking at Our Land: A Symposium on Farmland Access in the 21st Century on April 27, 2014. See the full speech in the video below.

For more on farmland concentration, displacement and resistance movements in the US, see Food First’s Spring 2014 Backgrounder, “This Land is Whose Land? Dispossession, Resistance and Reform in the United States.”