“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.”
Tags: bungkalan
Peasant groups slam redbaiting of Negros’ land cultivation
The bungkalan has been the NFSW’s campaign since 2008 for sugar workers to survive Tiempo Muerto or “dead season”, the period between planting and harvesting sugarcane. It usually lasts five months from April to September resulting to massive hunger among the farm workers.
Bungkalan: Mga Aral mula sa Hacienda Luisita at Negros
In commemoration of the 13th year of the Luisita Massacre on Nov. 16, Bulatlat posts this article on recent experiences on collective land cultivation as a form of struggle against land monopoly, and their compilation in a book.
Nueva Ecija bungkalan | ‘Our struggle put food on our table’
This harvest season, the farmers of Baloc, Sto. Domingo reaped the fruit of their struggle for land.
Unrest among the landless | From Mindanao to Nueva Ecija, peasants assert right to land
Protests in the countryside show growing clamor for genuine agrarian reform.
Cojuangco-Aquino men fire shots, take over farm workers’ huts in Luisita
Tension and terror arise anew in the Tarlac hacienda.
#RememberLuisita| Land cultivation campaign showcases people’s unity
“The struggle in Hacienda Luisita is the struggle of the Filipino people.”
Sugar worker hurt in ambush in Negros
Tension rises as farmers assert their right to till in Salvador Benedicto town, Negros Occidental.
‘They were like monsters’
At around 3 p.m., Dec. 21, policemen under the command of Tarlac City Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Bayani Razalan, Provincial Director Alex Sintin, chief of Great Star Security Agency, Mauro dela Cruz and Tarlac Development Corporation representative Villamor Lagunero arrested Hacienda Luisita farmers Vicente Sambo, Rod and his mother Eufemia Acosta, Ronald Sakay, husband and wife Jose and Elsa Baldiviano, and Manuel and Mamerto Mandigma. They are now detained at Camp Macabulos, headquarters of PNP-Tarlac. No charges have been filed against them as of Dec. 22.
Under Aquino, no justice for victims of Hacienda Luisita massacre
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“The Cojuangco-Aquinos used and abused all legal means to their advantage and interest of further controlling the lands.” – Rep. Rafael Mariano of Anakpawis
News in Pictures: Peasants Say CARPer Root Cause of Landlessness, Poverty and Hunger
Farmers from Negros, Southern Tagalog, Tungkong Mangga and Hacienda Luisita protested in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Quezon City on Saturday, and blamed the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPer) for causing massive landlessness, poverty and hunger, marking what they dubbed as World “Foodless” Day.