Photo by Dabet Castañeda
The barbed wire did not always surround this church, which is located inside the Cojuangco/Aquino-owned Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac. It was erected there just before the strike staged Nov. 6 by plantation and milling workers demanding land redistribution, higher wages and benefits, more mandays, and the reinstatement of retrenched employees. The hacienda’s owners, who seem to have anticipated the strike, must think they are the only children of God this part of the world.
