“Many of us will go hungry if the solar project continues. The development they claim is not for the farmers but for the businessmen.”
Solar plant to replace rice lands in Rizal town
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Land reform beneficiary slain in Negros
Before the incident, the Sustento family and other tillers experienced harassment while defending their collective land cultivation area.
Peasants rejoice as Congress fails to vote on proposed Cha-Cha
“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.”
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…
Farmers, other sectors link arms to fight for genuine land reform
Genuine land reform would result in genuinely broad-based overall economic growth, rapid poverty reduction and genuine food security.
Extending CARPER?
The Catholic Bishops has been pushing for another extension of the CARPER because of the prevailing landlessness among the country’s peasant majority. The Aquino government has supposedly acquiesced and instructed its allies in Congress to extend CARPER.
Progressive farmers’ groups, on the other hand, are pushing not for another extension of CARPER but its version of agrarian reform, the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill.
And the debate is on.
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
Farmers march to Malacanang
Marking the death of what they call as “bogus” agrarian reform program, farmers from all over Luzon march from the Department of Agrarian Reform to the foot of Mendiola, a few meters away from Malacanang palace, June 30. Photos and Editing by Ronalyn V. Olea Music: Awit ng Magsasaka by Sining Bugkos Produced by Bulatlat…
Farmers hit proposed extension of agrarian reform law, call for Aquino’s ouster
“CARPer is not just a gigantic historical failure but a man-made catastrophe to the farming sector of the region that deserves no legislated ‘resuscitation’ or revival but a natural death and an unmarked grave.”
Farmers march for genuine agrarian reform, not CARPer
Sixty-year old Alexander Viernes’s blood pressure shot up by noon of June 26 while they were in Pulilan, Bulacan, after beginning their march from Aurora province the day before. He rested for an hour and resumed walking. “This is for all the farmers who yearn for genuine agrarian reform,” he said.
Agrarian woes mark 26th anniversary of CARP
“A genuine agrarian reform scheme will address the centuries-old problem of peasant landlessness, which the CARP has not solved and in fact worsened. Up till now 7 out of 10 farmers do not own the land they till, in some regions like Southern Tagalog and Central Luzon it is 8 out of 10.” – Bayan Muna Rep Neri Colmenares