The living conditions in the Negros island have been – time and again – a glaring example of government’s failure to implement genuine agrarian reform.
Food as a daily struggle in Negros
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Bungkalan pies
By DEE AYROSO
Bungkalan vs imported rice
By DEE AYROSO
‘As government spins, impartial probe on Sagay massacre gains urgency’ – Mov’t Against Tyranny
MANILA — Amid numerous angles in Sagay Massacre the police and the Duterte administration say they will look into, peasant and rights groups said an independent probe on the massacre is all the more necessary now. Peasant women’s group Amihan in another statement said an independent probe is required “considering the PNP’s record of machination.”…
No whitewash in Sagay massacre probe, various groups urge
‘The manner by which the killing was committed points to impunity on the part of the perpetrators.’
Fighting off hunger, thousands launch collective farming
“Not one area of any successful bungkalan did not go through harassment from soldiers, goons, policemen.”
30 years after CARP| Peasants strengthen fight vs. landlessness, state fascism
“Two years of the Duterte regime is two years of non-agrarian reform agenda, as it has yet to pass a new law to replace the expired and failed CARP.”
Peasant groups slam redbaiting of Negros’ land cultivation
The bungkalan has been the NFSW’s campaign since 2008 for sugar workers to survive Tiempo Muerto or “dead season”, the period between planting and harvesting sugarcane. It usually lasts five months from April to September resulting to massive hunger among the farm workers.
Bungkalan: Mga Aral mula sa Hacienda Luisita at Negros
In commemoration of the 13th year of the Luisita Massacre on Nov. 16, Bulatlat posts this article on recent experiences on collective land cultivation as a form of struggle against land monopoly, and their compilation in a book.
Nueva Ecija bungkalan | ‘Our struggle put food on our table’
This harvest season, the farmers of Baloc, Sto. Domingo reaped the fruit of their struggle for land.
Unrest among the landless | From Mindanao to Nueva Ecija, peasants assert right to land
Protests in the countryside show growing clamor for genuine agrarian reform.