So Young, So Committed, and So Much in Danger
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Sison: ‘Villar Offers Relatively Better Program; Noynoy to Frustrate Land Reform’
Sison: ‘Villar Offers Relatively Better Program; Noynoy to Frustrate Land Reform’
By D. L. MONDELO
Will there be a failure of elections? What can the people expect after the May 2010 elections? Will a just and lasting peace be finally achieved? These are just some of the questions that Bulatlat tackled in an interview with Jose Maria Sison.
Peasant Leaders to Aquino Sisters: Insulting Farmers Won’t Help Noynoy’s Campaign
Peasant Leaders to Aquino Sisters: Insulting Farmers Won’t Help Noynoy’s Campaign
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"If they think that insulting Luisita farmers can help Noynoy's campaign, they are absolutely wrong. They are further isolating their brother Noynoy from the peasantry, agrarian reform advocates, and the Filipino people," Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano said.
‘Sugar Crisis’ a ‘Money-Making Hoax Concocted by Traders’
‘Sugar Crisis’ a ‘Money-Making Hoax Concocted by Traders’
By RITCHE T. SALGADO
A group of sugar workers in Negros island was shocked to learn that the price of sugar in some parts of the country has reached a high of P60 per kilo amid news of an apparent crisis on the supply of the commodity.
A Bloody Struggle for Land in Compostela Valley
A Bloody Struggle for Land in Compostela Valley
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
For the farmers, peasants and indigenous peoples of Southern Mindanao, the past several years had been a period of great danger and violence as big mining companies encroach into ancestral and agricultural land, using the military to drive them away. Many peasant and Lumad leaders who opposed these projects have ended up dead and tortured.
Leyte Farmers Locked in Battle with Ex-CA Justice Over Land
Leyte Farmers Locked in Battle with Ex-CA Justice Over Land
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Since 2000, Alejandro Abaño could not go back to his farm in barangay Cabatianuhan, Alangalang, Leyte. In the first week of February that year, Abaño, together with some agricultural workers, was weeding the coconut land of his father when armed men pretending to be policemen came to their hut accusing them of being rebels. The armed men were allegedly hired by former Court of Appeals Justice Vicente “Cheng” Veloso, who claimed that he owned the land.
Audio Slideshow: Lakbayan, a Victory for the Filipino Peasantry
Audio Slideshow: Lakbayan, a Victory for the Filipino Peasantry
Lakbayan, a Victory for the Filipino Peasantry
Slideshow: The Long March for Land and Justice
Slideshow: The Long March for Land and Justice
The Long March for Land and Justice
Mega-Dam Project in Tarlac Remains a Threat to Aetas
Mega-Dam Project in Tarlac Remains a Threat to Aetas
By MARYA SALAMAT
Among those who participated in the recent Lakbayan, the national peasant caravan, were members of the Aberlin Aetas, a tribe in Tarlac whose communities and livelihood are being threatened by a mega-dam project started by the administration of Cory Aquino and now being pursued by the Arroyo regime.
Bulacan Farmers Up Against Congressman in Land Struggle
Bulacan Farmers Up Against Congressman in Land Struggle
By MARYA SALAMAT
The first time Rep. Luis Villafuerte went up and asked the farmers to meet with him in April, “he hoodwinked us to sign a paper which we thought was just an attendance sheet, but later turned out to be our supposed agreement to donate the lands we have been tilling to Green Earth,” members of Lingap Magsasaka, the farmers' group, told Bulatlat during the northern leg of the 10-day Lakbayan.
Negros Farmers on Hunger Strike to Oppose Killings, ‘Criminalization of Agrarian Struggle’
Negros Farmers on Hunger Strike to Oppose Killings, ‘Criminalization of Agrarian Struggle’
By RITCHE T. SALGADO
Farmers and fisherfolk groups in Negros Occidental have been holding protests outside the capitol to denounce the mounting harassments experienced by Negrense farmers and farm workers. They also denounce a series of moves by landlords to file common and trivial offenses against peasants who demand land reform.
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