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“The fateful incident may be a distant memory for President Aquino and the Cojuangco-Aquinos but Filipinos will never forget Hacienda Luisita massacre.”
Behind the barrage of official information from Malacanang and concerned government agencies, what did Aquino and his clan do in Hacienda Luisita?
“We hope that candidates who promise reforms in the country would hear and realize the aspiration of Filipino farmers, which should have been realized long ago.”
“It is ironic that the rural people who are the primary food producers are the ones who are experiencing lack of food and drastic hunger.”
The destitute condition of peasant women in different countries shows the effects of global massive land grabbing and resource plunder.
“The DAR says that running issues in Luisita are not agrarian in nature. How absurd is that?”
“Instead of functioning like an unabashed apologist, why not just file charges?”
“The so-called foreign investment to be brought by economic Cha-cha is only for the benefit of the hacienderos and big businesses and not for the Filipino people.”
After a year of living on the streets, Balakbakan fisherfolk want to return to their homes.
“Where shall Aquino’s Cha-cha get the lands to be put up for sale to foreigners?”
Genuine land reform would result in genuinely broad-based overall economic growth, rapid poverty reduction and genuine food security.
“The WTO and its so-called free trade destroyed our country’s food self-sufficiency and food security.”
“We should all unite, because without the land, we will have no food to eat.”
"If they evict people just for their own interest, then, that is not development. That is tyranny against the people."
"It appears that even Justice Secretary Leila de Lima was ordered not to act on the complaints we filed against the Cojuangco-Aquinos.”
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.
“Comrades, have the massacres, killings and land grabbing stopped?” peasant leader Rafael Mariano asked. The crowd gave a resounding no.
Settlers from Mindoro struggle to own the land that they have tilled for years in Palawan.
Anakpawis Partylist continues to push for the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill in the landlord-dominated Congress.
“The project is so extensive but the welfare of the people that would be affected in Capas, Bamban towns and Mabalacat city is not being considered.” – Anakpawis partylist Rep. Fernando Hicap
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