“The perennial problems of landlessness and rural poverty have made farmers more vulnerable and helpless in times of calamity.”
Mindanao farmers demand food, land, justice
Tags: land reform
Luisita farmers hold vigil to stop destruction of farms, huts
“Two Cojuangco-Aquinos have won the presidency with the promise to distribute Hacienda Luisita to us farmworkers. But look at what’s happening to us here now,” Sibayan said.
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…
Workers, youth groups rally to save Mary Jane, demand reforms
“All public officials who claim to be serving Filipinos should echo the call to save Mary Jane’s life.”
42 years of land reform, farmers still landless
“Let us learn from history that past and present presidents came from the landlord class, they are all the same and not a single one served the interests of the farmers, as wells as Filipino masses.” – Fernando Hicap, Anakpawis partylist Representative
Peasants of Yulo King Ranch face landlessness, eviction
SPECIAL REPORT: A fact-finding mission to Palawan in June reported how the peasants of Yulo King Ranch have been dispossessed of the land they were tilling when it was declared a pasture land during Martial Law. Their impoverishment and landlessness show a picture of failed agrarian reform from the regime of the dictator Marcos up to Aquino.
Hacienda Luisita farmworkers scoff at being called ‘stockholders’
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Are stockholders subjected to exploitation and abuse? Are stockholders deliberately kept in the dark and excluded from all pertinent discussions regarding how a business is run?” — Lito Bais, president of United Luisita Workers Union (Ulwu)
Redistribute Hacienda Luisita to informal settlers, landless farmers – Anakbayan
PRESS RELEASE 12 May 2011 MANILA — “A complete package of housing and livelihood? Sounds good. Why then hasn’t he done that for the country’s millions of landless farmers, including those in his own Hacienda Luisita?” This was the response of Vencer Crisostomo, national chairperson of the youth group Anakbayan, to President Noynoy Aquino’s announcement…
Change Means Land Reform Now, Peasants Camping Out in Mendiola Tell Aquino
By MARYA SALAMAT
Seven in every 10 Filipinos are farmers, the KMP (Peasant Movement of the Philippines) emphasized, which was why they had been trying to bring their demands right to the president himself. If there is to be change, a lot of it must happen on farmers’ lives, they said.
Update: Peasants in Mendiola Camp-out, First Victims of Violent Dispersal Under the New Government
Statement on CARP Extension
BY AXEL PINPIN Former Political Detainee Indang, Cavite DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatat I was released from prison almost in time for the expiration of the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) that paved a crossroad to the majority of farming sectors in the country. Anent the current raging discourse on Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill…
Militant Peasant Group Marches to Congress for GARB not CARP
BY JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat Kilusang Mambubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP or Peasant Movement of the Philippines) Chair and Anakpawis (Toiling Masses) Rep. Rafael Mariano welcomed the leaders and members of Kalipunan ng Samahang Mambubukid ng Kabite (Kamagsasa-Ka or Federation of Peasant Associations in Cavite), a chapter of KMP, at the House of Representatives this…