Farm workers decry plantation expansions
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Janess Ann J. Ellao | Mar 21, 2019
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‘Farmers are misled, ignored in the Philippines’
‘Farmers are misled, ignored in the Philippines’
“What we have seen so far is that the government is not serious in improving the agricultural industry in the country."
This Week on People’s History: Mendiola Massacre
This Week on People’s History: Mendiola Massacre
In This Week on People's History, Bulatlat remembers the gruesome massacre of 13 protesting farmers on Jan. 22, 1987. The killed farmers were among the more than 20,000 who marched to the historic bridge of Mendiola, a stone's throw away from Malacanang, to press for a genuine agrarian reform program.
32 years after Mendiola Massacre, farmers still demand justice
32 years after Mendiola Massacre, farmers still demand justice
“Ang pagsasaka ay marangal na gawain, hindi po ito terorismo. Hindi po kami terorista."
Genuine agrarian reform, rice industry development as alternatives to tariffication
Genuine agrarian reform, rice industry development as alternatives to tariffication
“The Rice Industry Development Act (RIDA) bill seeks to lift our rice industry from a multi-dimensional crisis that wasted away its productive capability, stunted its development and forestalled the country’s attainment of food security."
Network to push for justice for Sagay massacre victims
Network to push for justice for Sagay massacre victims
“We need to show them that we are not buying their story line-- the victims are the ones being blamed and a child survivor is being forced to pin down innocent persons for the crime.”
40 days after Sagay massacre, groups condemn ‘heightening state terror’
40 days after Sagay massacre, groups condemn ‘heightening state terror’
"The deployment of more state security forces in the province and in the whole Negros Island would not lead to the so-called peace and order. They are there primarily to protect the interests of big landlords who still lord over the Island.”
Luisita farmers rekindle hope in fight for land
Luisita farmers rekindle hope in fight for land
Fourteen years after the Hacienda Luisita massacre, farmers still fight for their land. The Cojuangco-Aquinos have regained control of the vast sugar plantation with the aid of the Department of Agrarian Reform, military and police.
Salt of the Earth: The plight of Laiya peasants
Salt of the Earth: The plight of Laiya peasants
What often gets left out of the frame are images of farmer and fisherfolk households forcibly evicted from their homes, divested of livelihood, security, and property. What never make the headlines are these stories of poor families excluded from their own community due to land grabs, which remain doubly driven by private property and wanton state complicity.
No whitewash in Sagay massacre probe, various groups urge
No whitewash in Sagay massacre probe, various groups urge
'The manner by which the killing was committed points to impunity on the part of the perpetrators.'
9 farmers killed, 3 wounded in Sagay massacre
9 farmers killed, 3 wounded in Sagay massacre
Nine farmers were killed and three wounded in a massacre in Hacienda Nene in Purok Pine Tree Barangay Bulanon in Sagay City, where farmers are staging “bungkalan” or land cultivation of idle farm lands.
Fighting off hunger, thousands launch collective farming
Fighting off hunger, thousands launch collective farming
“Not one area of any successful bungkalan did not go through harassment from soldiers, goons, policemen.”
#LoveKoAgriPH | Agricultural groups air solutions to high prices of food
#LoveKoAgriPH | Agricultural groups air solutions to high prices of food
If the government is looking for someone to blame for the inflation and increasing prices of basic commodities as rice and fish, it is its own neglect to subsidize agricultural producers when other countries have been actively doing so, and its tax and investment policies that hit the agricultural producers and consumers hard.
Luisita farmers enraged at SC reso
Luisita farmers enraged at SC reso
"The SC decision lacks any sense of social justice."
30 years after CARP| Farmers strengthen fight vs. landlessness, state violence
30 years after CARP| Farmers strengthen fight vs. landlessness, state violence
“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| Peasants strengthen fight vs. landlessness, state fascism
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.”
Peasants slam proposal to amend 30-year-old ‘bogus land reform law’
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.”
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