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BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luson News Service Posted 10:00 p.m., Apr. 9, 2006 TARLAC CITY — Ronald Intal, the youth leader in Hacienda Luisita who was abducted allegedly by government troops and has been missing since April 3 may be alive and in the custody of the...
BY Abner Bolos GLNS/ Bulatlat.com Posted 6:39 p.m., Apr. 27, 2006 City of San Fernando—After almost a year of protest, workers in Hacienda Luisita have succeeded in pushing the government to declare as illegal quarrying operations for the Subic-Clark-Tarlac...
By D. L. MONDELO
“The automated electoral system does not prevent the cheating tactics of the past but in fact allows cheating in a bigger and faster way.”
A lost foot, a lost job and a threat to lose his home. This tale of a sugar mill worker at the Central Azucarera de Tarlac brings to fore the miserable conditions that bug the work force of Luzon’s largest sugar refinery. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com It was 30...
Gate 1 of the Central Azucarera de Tarlac, where seven lay dead after the Nov. 16 carnage, remains as the battleground between the Cojuangcos and the striking sugar mill and farm workers. This is where hundreds of battle-scarred strikers have held their ground...
By Abner Bolos Oct. 16, 2005 TARLAC CITY- The secretary general of Bayan Muna party-list in Tarlac province was shot dead by still unidentified men yesterday morning, Oct. 15, in his home in Barangay (village) Tuec, Camiling, Tarlac. The victim, Florante Collantes,...
A cloud of anxiety now stalks the ranks of farm-worker beneficiaries of Hacienda Luisita, the 6,453-ha. sugar estate owned and operated by the powerful Cojuangco clan of Tarlac (120 kms north of Manila). After seeking justice for 37 years, they are made to wait a...
Negros farmers groups demand similar SDO cancellation First of two parts After Tarlac City, Negros sugarlandia is bracing for peasant rumblings as demand has been raised for the cancellation of the stock distribution scheme (SDO) in several plantations. Negros has...
Review of Umani: Mga Likhang Sining ng Buhay at Pakikibaka ng Magsasaka para sa Lupa at Kalayaan, published by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas 70 pages Umani is a literary anthology about peasants, for peasants and by peasants. Those who have read it will...
Last June, the unions in Hacienda Luisita declared they will encourage and undertake systematic cultivation of portions of idle land in the plantation to produce food crops and stave off hunger during the rainy season. The “bungkalan” (cultivation) immediately became a big hit among hacienda workers’ families, enabling them to buy food and simple household needs.
For the third time since the powerful Cojuangco clan acquired the vast sugar estate Hacienda Luisita in 1958, thousands of its farm hands are again facing the prospect of owning the land that is rightfully theirs. Will they finally hit this chance? Will the axe...
“This victory will not have been possible without the sacrifice of the martyrs of Hacienda Luisita. However, justice for the people of the hacienda will only be complete if the perpetrators of the murders of the seven workers and four of their supporters will be...
Although long overdue, a recommendation by a government legal team to revoke the Stock Distribution Option (SDO) scheme is a major step in upholding the legitimacy of the Hacienda Luisita workers' struggle. By John Paul Andaquig and Sweet Mary Cawicaan IBON...
As lawyers haggle over the legality of the revocation of the stock distribution option in Hacienda Luisita, the farm workers continue to reap benefits from tilling the land and earn money from the on-going sugar cane harvest. By Abner Bolos Bulatlat.com As lawyers...
Various controversies plagued the agricultural sector in 2005 and peasants do not see an end in the immediate future. In fact, they are bracing for the worst in 2006. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Past surveys showed hardship among the poor in 2004 and signs of...
We in Bulatlat have chosen to welcome the New Year by looking back at those personalities who may be described, as far as we are concerned, as 2005 People of the Year. They are those who provided shining examples of courage or brilliance – or both – at a time that...
The cold blooded murder of Ricardo “Ka Ric” Ramos, president of the Central Azucarera de Tarlac Labor Union (CATLU) at the strife-ridden Hacienda Luisita and baranggay captain of Bo. Mapalacsiao, was an act of treachery and desperation. By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo...
BY ABNER BOLOS Bulatlat.com The strike may have been lifted last December 8, 2005, but the struggle of the farm workers of Hacienda Luisita, Inc. (HLI) is far from over. Among the unresolved issues are coverage of land distribution and number of agrarian reform...
NI JESSA MEI JAMILA Inilathala ng Gusto ko po sanang magbigay ng aking opinyon tungol sa nakaraang usaping hinggil sa Hacienda Luisita. Ang aming guro po sa Araling Panlipunan ay pinapanood kami ng isang dokumentaryong talagang nagpabuhay sa nag-aalab kong dugo at...
With the presidential elections now over save for the official proclamation of Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, we ask what is perhaps the same question in the mind of most Filipinos today: what can our forlorn people expect from an Aquino presidency?
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