Farm workers are calling for higher wages as they battle every day to put food on the table.
Food producers go hungry
Day: October 16, 2022
How a Moro woman has preserved their culture while helping provide food for displaced families
While their reality seemed gloomy at the evacuation site, it was also where Salika Maguindanao co-founded the Maranao Collectible Service Cooperative, which has helped them preserve their tradition and provide a livelihood to those who lost their homes and livelihood to the Marawi Siege.
Peasant women mark int’l rural women’s day
“This important day was celebrated every year to recognize the contribution of rural-based women to the attainment of household and national food security, agriculture, and economic development, but in the Philippines, the sector remains a victim of system-wide poverty, hunger, and abuses, fueled by the chronic landlessness, oppression and exploitation, and suppression of its assertion of land rights.”
Stop military operations in Himamaylan – groups
Karapatan-Negros has already recorded illegal arrests and torture of seven farmers. There are also reports of livestock being stolen and slaughtered by the military.
Hands off Len Olea!
By DEE AYROSO