Bungkalan sa Tinang
Bungkalan is a peaceful peasant action, that is, until police shows up.
Bungkalan sa Tinang
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‘Planting food and right to assembly guaranteed by law’ – peasant group
‘Planting food and right to assembly guaranteed by law’ – peasant group
“Planting food and supporting farmers are no mischief, and the right to assembly is guaranteed by the highest law in the land.”
Land reform beneficiaries, supporters violently arrested for holding collective farming
Land reform beneficiaries, supporters violently arrested for holding collective farming
“Deprived farmers are faced with violent reprisal when they assert their rightful claim to land. This exposes CARP as instrumental to landlords while the majority of our farmers remain landless, poor, and hungry."
Farmers’ houses burned, demolished in Bulacan by company goons
Farmers’ houses burned, demolished in Bulacan by company goons
The demolition comes as the latest in a series of operations conducted by Royal Moluccan Realty Holdings, Inc. (RMRHI), beginning in early 2018.
Food as a daily struggle in Negros
Food as a daily struggle in Negros
The living conditions in the Negros island have been – time and again – a glaring example of government’s failure to implement genuine agrarian reform.
‘As government spins, impartial probe on Sagay massacre gains urgency’ – Mov’t Against Tyranny
‘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...
No whitewash in Sagay massacre probe, various groups urge
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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.
Cojuangco-Aquino men fire shots, take over farm workers’ huts in Luisita
Cojuangco-Aquino men fire shots, take over farm workers’ huts in Luisita
Tension and terror arise anew in the Tarlac hacienda.
#RememberLuisita| Land cultivation campaign showcases people’s unity
#RememberLuisita| Land cultivation campaign showcases people’s unity
“The struggle in Hacienda Luisita is the struggle of the Filipino people.”
Sugar worker hurt in ambush in Negros
Sugar worker hurt in ambush in Negros
Tension rises as farmers assert their right to till in Salvador Benedicto town, Negros Occidental.
‘They were like monsters’
‘They were like monsters’
At around 3 p.m., Dec. 21, policemen under the command of Tarlac City Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Bayani Razalan, Provincial Director Alex Sintin, chief of Great Star Security Agency, Mauro dela Cruz and Tarlac Development Corporation representative Villamor Lagunero arrested Hacienda Luisita farmers Vicente Sambo, Rod and his mother Eufemia Acosta, Ronald Sakay, husband and wife Jose and Elsa Baldiviano, and Manuel and Mamerto Mandigma. They are now detained at Camp Macabulos, headquarters of PNP-Tarlac. No charges have been filed against them as of Dec. 22.
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