Alanna Hartzok is Administrative Director and a United Nations NGO Representative for the International Union for Land Value Taxation where she helps administer land value tax implementation projects on all five continents. She is the author of The Earth Belongs to Everyone which received the Radical Middle Book Award. She is a recipient of the International Earth Day Award from the Earth Society Foundation. Her E.F. Schumacher Lecture is titled Democracy, Earth Rights and the Next Economy.
Alanna initiated tax reform legislation, that passed with a nearly unanimous vote, enabling the nearly 1000 towns of Pennsylvania to shift their tax base off of buildings and onto land value.
Her articles are referenced in the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Dialogues (the Canada West Foundation) and in books, including The Natural Wealth of Nationsand Creating a Sustainable World. She was featured in Planet Champions: Adventures in Saving the World.
Twice she has been a congressional candidate for her district of Pennsylvania.
TOPICS: Wealth Inequality and the Human Right to the Earth, Tax Shift Solutions to High Housing Costs, Land Reform for Regenerative Agriculture, Financing Planet Management, Geopolitics through an Earth Rights Lens, From Tax Burdens to Commons Rent Freedoms, Commons Rent Domains Local to Global, Women Earth and Economic Power, Economics of War and Peace
Meme: https://tinyurl.com/HartzokMeme
Recent presentations:
Truth Action Project: LAND, MONEY AND POWER – https://rumble.com/v6sx3on-tap-talk-with-alanna-harzok-the-truth-about-land-money-and-power..html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Dateline – News and Conversation: MONEY, VALUE AND LAND TAX REFORM – https://regist.substack.com/p/the-earth-belongs-to-everyone
Producer comment: “Thanks for a very exciting and fun show. See you again real soon.”
Reality with Bruce de Torres: LAND VALUE TAXATION AND THE PROSPERITY IT CAUSES –
Producer comment: “What a beautiful, beautiful conversation with truly wonderful information. Thank you. THANK you! Till we talk again!”
Quotes from others:
Alanna Hartzok has recognized that the earth is the birthright of all peoples and that prevailing notions of state sovereignty must yield to the new thinking that the only real sovereigns are the people. If we are all to live together in peace and dignity, it must become a reality that the land, the sea, and the air we breathe are a common heritage to serve the basic rights of human kind. – Dr. Benjamin B. Ferencz, Prosecutor, Nuremburg War Crimes Trial, Adjunct Professor of International Law, Pace University
Alanna Hartzok has deeply researched tax issues with equity and ecological sustainability firmly in mind. Her book is a storehouse of wisdom and insights on these and many broader issues relating economics to the larger planetary ecology. Hazel Henderson, author Beyond Globalization and Building a Win-Win World; former President’s Commissioner on Sustainable Development; founder: Ethical Markets TV.
She is one of the few professional economic writers who understands the crises of our age and provides practical solutions. Everyone who cares for the children’s dream must read Alanna’s book. – Rashmi Mayur, director International Institute for Sustainable Future, India
More and more people are convinced that the only way to a just, prosperous and ecologically sustainable future is to share the value of Earth’s resources more fairly. Alanna Hartzok grounds that conviction in practical proposals and inspires us to do something about it. – James Robertson (London, UK), author, co-founder, The Other Economic Summit and the New Economics Foundation, consultant, European Commission.
TOPICS: Wealth Inequality and the Human Right to the Earth, Tax Shift Solutions to High Housing Costs, Land Reform for Regenerative Agriculture, Financing Planet Management, Geopolitics through an Earth Rights Lens, From Tax Burdens to Commons Rent Freedoms, Commons Rent Domains Local to Global, Women Earth and Economic Power.
Power Points: Class and Race through a Land Lens, Economics of War and Peace, The Corruption of Medicine and Economics, Golden Thread of Wisdom Teachings
Contact: In Pennsylvania: Phone: 1-717-357-7617 Email: alannahartzok@gmail.com