The latest report from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) revealed that Western Visayas is the most affected region with P687.7 million ($12.3M) in agricultural damage, followed by Mimaropa, Cagayan Valley, Ilocos, Calabarzon, and Zamboanga peninsula.
“The strict lockdown crippled us. On top of the ongoing militarization in our community, it is difficult to survive. Many of us only have a handful of our produce.”
“With a DDS at the helm of DAR, the prospect of genuine land reform and rural industrialization is now next to impossible.”
Protests in the countryside show growing clamor for genuine agrarian reform.
“We will demand justice.”
“The case of Pajalla is a concrete representation that the remnants of the previous regimes’ fascist counterinsurgency programs still remain in the Duterte administration.”
“The peasants of Southern Tagalog call on the Duterte administration, and to Quezon Governor (David) Suarez to immediately release Antonio Pajalla.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The inclusion of Cojuangco loyalists and dummies in the DAR’s list of beneficiaries is exactly the reason why the DAR’s so-called verification process is a scam and a barefaced maneuver by the President’s family to once again evade land distribution.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Manila–Farmers groups led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today warned against what it said as President Benigno Aquino III’s dictatorial tendencies. In the wake of the Senate’s guilty verdict against chief justice Renato Corona, which critics say was actively campaigned for by Malacañang itself, the KMP said…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Main Story: Negros farmers suffer atrocities from ‘landlord-hired bandit group’ Sidebar: The peace pact with the RPA–ABB SAGAY CITY, Negros Occidental – Lelia Devera, a resident of E.B. Magalona, brought her five-year-old granddaughter Princess to Bacolod City where they would be relatively safe from the atrocities allegedly being inflicted…
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“There’s no room for complacency at this point in our fight – we have to push for actual and immediate land distribution.” – Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura