“The so-called foreign investment to be brought by economic Cha-cha is only for the benefit of the hacienderos and big businesses and not for the Filipino people.”
Peasants rejoice as Congress fails to vote on proposed Cha-Cha
Tags: CARP extension
“Breakthrough Deal A Baloney,” Said Luisita Worker Groups
The Unyon ng Mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA), the mother federation of Hacienda Luisita based groups United Luisita Workers Union (ULWU) and Alyansa ng Mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala) and the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Thursday declared baloney, fraudulent and bogus the settlement allgedly reached between the striking farm workers and…
Groups Condemn Attempted Demolition on Farmers in Pangasinan, Blame CARPER’s Futility
PRESS RELEASE May 28, 2010 After an attempted dispersal of farmers’ barricade against illegal cutting of coconut trees in Hacienda Yulo, Calamba, Laguna last May 21, farmers are again victims of attempted demolition in Sta. Barbara town, Pangasinan perpetrated by landlord Humberto Solis. About 50 farmer families are members of Anakpawis Partylist and are cultivating…
CARP Extension to Worsen Landlessness Problem
Members of the progressive party-list bloc at the House of Representatives walked out of the session hall, December 17, as their colleagues adopted Joint Resolution No. 19. They said they decided not to be a party to the landlord-dominated House of Representatives’ “pretensions, and deception of the Filipino peasantry and the people” in extending the ‘bogus’ Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), which was further emasculated with the removal of the compulsory acquisition scheme.
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…