“I think it is horrible to see the priorities of this government, prioritizing the wealthy over the poor.”
Luisita farmers find allies in foreign activists
Tags: Department of Agrarian Reform
Farmers Camp Out at DAR to Protest Land Grabbing in S. Tagalog
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Contributed to Bulatlat.com August 11, 2008 – 12:59 p.m. More than a thousand members of peasant groups and supporters have started camping out at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Aug. 11, to protest the cases of land grabbing in the provinces of the Southern Tagalog region. The Katipunan ng mga…
A Centuries-Old Problem
A government which is not serious in implementing a genuine agrarian reform program with a weak law such as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 is a recipe for more feudal exploitation and peasant unrest. A government which is not serious in agrarian reform with a strong law and program may be forced to…
Gov’t to Stop Illegal Quarry Operations in Luisita
BY Abner Bolos GLNS/ Bulatlat.com Posted 6:39 p.m., Apr. 27, 2006 City of San Fernando—After almost a year of protest, workers in Hacienda Luisita have succeeded in pushing the government to declare as illegal quarrying operations for the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway Project [SCTEP] inside the hacienda. Officials of the Department of Agrarian Reform [DAR], Department of…