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Our fight for the right to food is rooted in the same principles that inspired Gerard Winstanley and the Diggers
BFAWU president IAN HODSON says the democracy the Diggers fought for eludes us to this day
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THESE lands are our lands – they belong to you, they belong to me.
Gerard Winstanley imagined that his venture would be an example to others and would spread across the country. He dreamed that everyone would till the earth without an issue of ownership and the whole earth would be a “common treasury for all.” Today we celebrate the life of Winstanley and the Diggers in Wigan by holding a free festival for those who believed that the earth belongs to us all, not to the few.
In 2021 we are still searching for the democracy the Diggers stood up for in 1649, for which they were cut down and burnt out by the wealthy farmers and landowners.
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