“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.”
30 years after CARP| Farmers strengthen fight vs. landlessness, state violence
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Peasants slam proposal to amend 30-year-old ‘bogus land reform law’
“This sinister move clearly aims to ‘zombify’ the CARP law which expired on June 30, 2014.”
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.”
The plague of plantations
“Since its inception, the ASEAN has never been for the interest of the people, but for profit and monopoly capital. It serves to strengthen foreign control over raw materials, labor and supply chains in the region at the expense of the people and nations of Asia Pacific.”
Farmers slam expansion of plantations under Duterte gov’t
Despite the environmental degradation plantations cause and the harmful toxic chemicals they use, their proclivity for land grabbing and the low wages they pay, the Duterte administration has allocated another 1.6 million hectares for the expansion of plantations.
4 farmers dead, another wounded in land-related violence in N. Ecija
The KMP challenged the Duterte administration to give justice to the victims of the Fort Magsaysay carnage and hold the perpetrators accountable.
Solar plant to replace rice lands in Rizal town
“Many of us will go hungry if the solar project continues. The development they claim is not for the farmers but for the businessmen.”
Land reform beneficiary slain in Negros
Before the incident, the Sustento family and other tillers experienced harassment while defending their collective land cultivation area.
Peasants rejoice as Congress fails to vote on proposed Cha-Cha
“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.”
A rightful land reform
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star A “moral imperative and a political necessity” is how a militant peasant organization and advocates of genuine agrarian reform described the launching yesterday of a Philippine Land Reform Movement at the UP College of Social Work and Community Development. Averring that the Comprehensive Agrarian…
Farmers, other sectors link arms to fight for genuine land reform
Genuine land reform would result in genuinely broad-based overall economic growth, rapid poverty reduction and genuine food security.