Among other provisions, the CARPER bill mandates that private agricultural lands – the type that the Arroyos and the Cojuangcos own – can only be distributed if the original CARP managed to distribute 90 percent of its target. But CARP, despite the two decades it had, only distributed less than half of it. It’s an impossible provision that only underscores what progressive farmers have been saying all along – that CARPER is bogus.
Category: Agrarian Reform
Audio: Ka Daning Ramos Denounces Disperal of Anti-Carper Rally
Audio: KMP’s Ramos Denounces Dispersal
Slideshow: A Show of Outrage Against a Bogus Agrarian-Reform Law
A Show of Outrage Vs a Bogus CARPer
Video: Police Disperse Indignation Rally Vs CARP, Charter Change
Police Disperse Rally Vs CARP, Cha-cha
Another ‘Travesty’ as Congress Votes to Extend Life of Failed CARP
Farmers and activists protesting in Congress Wednesday night.
The landlord-dominated Congress, led by the relatives of President Arroyo, voted Wednesday night to add five more years to the implementation of a 20-year-old agrarian-reform program that has failed to uplift the lives of peasants and farmers in the Philippines. And critics say the new proposed law is even worse than the original.
Days After Violent Dispersal, Farmers Go Back to Congress
BY ANNA KRISTINA P. VIRTUSIO Bulatlat MANILA — Farmers’ groups trooped to the House of Representatives in Quezon City Tuesday to denounce the violent dispersal of their camp-out outside the south gate of the Batasan Pambansa Complex last Friday. “We condemn the violent dismantling of our camp-out. Instead of legislating a genuine land reform program,…
Video: Farmers File Human Rights Raps Vs. Nograles, House Security
Farmers File Raps Vs Congress Leaders
Genuine Agrarian Reform Can Help Philippines Deal With Crisis
By ARNOLD PADILLA Contributor Bulatlat MANILA – On May 20, the House Committee on Agrarian Reform finally scheduled a public hearing on House Bill 3059. The proponents of the bill, also called the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB), came in full force. Leaders of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) from as far as Mindanao…
Slideshow: Several Hurt as Congress Demolishes Peasants’ Tents
Several Hurt in Congress Demolition
Peasants Vow to Go Back to Congress After Demolition of Camp-Out
BY JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat Farmers, fisherfolk and their families were forced out from the premises of the Batasan Complex on their 40th day of the Rural People’s Camp Out for Genuine Agrarian Reform yesterday afternoon around 2:00 p.m. Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) secretary general Danilo Ramos said they did not expect the…
Slideshow: Peasants’ Camp-Out in Philippine Congress Violently Demolished
Peasants’ Camp-Out in Congress Demolished