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Slideshow: Lakbayan, Day 4
Lakbayan, Day 4
For Small Farmers of Mindanao, ‘Lakbayan’ Offers a Chance to Be Heard
By GRACE S. UDDIN
Small farmers like Winifreda Cabisay have not benefited much from the government’s agrarian-reform program. She was awarded land in 1996 but she has not been awarded a title to it and has had problems maintaining it. With the 10-day Lakbayan, Cabisay hopes that the issues that confront farmers like her will be heard.
Military Harasses Farmers’ Nationwide Caravan
The first-ever nationwide peasant caravan for land and justice, now on its fifth day in the Bicol region, has been facing harassment from the military since yesterday, Jan. 15. The caravan led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Anakpawis party list took off from Davao City on Monday. The farmers intend to reach Manila on Jan. 22, the 23rd anniversary of the Mendiola Massacre.
Slideshow: Lakbayan, Day 3
Lakbayan, Day 3
Benjie Oliveros | Land, Justice and the Peasantry
Majority of victims of human-rights violations in the Philippines are peasants. They are the ones most denied not just land but justice. So any candidate for president who claims to be for justice should, first and foremost, commit to the implementation of a genuine agrarian-reform program. This is why the Hacienda Luisita land problem is a defining issue for Noynoy Aquino.
Slideshow: Lakbayan, Day 2
Day 2: Lakbayan Peasant Caravan
Slideshow: Lakbayan, Day 1
Day 1: Lakbayan Peasant Caravan
In Historic Nationwide Caravan, Peasants Push Struggle for Land and Justice
Bulatlat Live: Lakbayan — Nationwide Peasant Caravan
View slideshows of Lakbayan: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 7| Day 10 Lakbayan: Nationwide Peasant Caravan Related items: Negros Farmers on Hunger Strike to Oppose Killings, ‘Criminalization of Agrarian Struggle’ By RITCHE T. SALGADO Farmers and fisherfolk groups in Negros Occidental have been holding…
Peasants and Workers in Long March for Land, Decent Jobs
Days before the Sona, thousands of farmers, workers, students and activists braved the heat and the rain as they marched from the provinces of Southern Tagalog to Commonwealth Avenue. The march, called Lakbayan, is their way of fighting the regime’s abuses and asserting their basic rights.