UMA challenged all presidential candidates, especially Aquino’s anointed, Mar Roxas, to speak out against these atrocities.
Category: Hacienda Luisita
Farmers, supporters mark 11th year of Hacienda Luisita massacre
“The fateful incident may be a distant memory for President Aquino and the Cojuangco-Aquinos but Filipinos will never forget Hacienda Luisita massacre.”
Aquino’s Top 10 Evil Schemes in Hacienda Luisita
Behind the barrage of official information from Malacanang and concerned government agencies, what did Aquino and his clan do in Hacienda Luisita?
DAR revives cases vs Luisita farmers, supporters
“The DAR says that running issues in Luisita are not agrarian in nature. How absurd is that?”
Peasants dare Aquino to sue ex-LTO chief
“Instead of functioning like an unabashed apologist, why not just file charges?”
3 years after SC ruling on Luisita, farmers call for justice
“It appears that even Justice Secretary Leila de Lima was ordered not to act on the complaints we filed against the Cojuangco-Aquinos.”
Extending CARPER?
The Catholic Bishops has been pushing for another extension of the CARPER because of the prevailing landlessness among the country’s peasant majority. The Aquino government has supposedly acquiesced and instructed its allies in Congress to extend CARPER.
Progressive farmers’ groups, on the other hand, are pushing not for another extension of CARPER but its version of agrarian reform, the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill.
And the debate is on.
From Mendiola to Luisita | Farm workers, supporters commemorate Hacienda Luisita massacre
“Is justice only for the rich and not for the poor?”
10th year of Hacienda Luisita massacre | Fresh wounds remain
SPECIAL REPORT: “Every time I see him (President Benigno Aquino III), my heart is overwhelmed with grief and anger.”
10th year of Hacienda Luisita massacre | ‘Noynoy had the case killed’
A 2005 report on the findings of the National Bureau of Investigation read: ‘We find that the protesters were more credible than the government personnel,’ and it recommended the filing of homicide charges against nine policemen.
The spoiled brat of Luisita
By TILDE ACUÑA