Farmers push for land, aid and justice
Farmers have been reaping debts but they get no sufficient aid from the Duterte administration.
Farmers push for land, aid and justice
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34 years after the Mendiola massacre, farmers still being killed for fighting for land
34 years after the Mendiola massacre, farmers still being killed for fighting for land
“Duterte can easily surpass the gruesome record of previous administrations in terms of peasant killings and massacres."
Activists launch #RollyPH relief ops
Activists launch #RollyPH relief ops
KMP is seeking urgent donations and support to aid farmers in need of immediate relief -- rice, food, relief packs, hygiene kits, drinking water, clothes, sleeping kits, and medicines. A more long-term rehabilitation effort is also needed and farmers and fisherfolk will need seeds and seedlings, farm tools, farm animals, bancas and fishing equipment, and production subsidies.
Groups hold Duterte regime accountable for murder of Anakpawis partylist leader
Groups hold Duterte regime accountable for murder of Anakpawis partylist leader
“Only rabid hacienderos, land grabbers, and militarist peace spoilers desire his death."
In one day, 4 farmers killed by suspected state agents
In one day, 4 farmers killed by suspected state agents
“It is martial law without martial law, but worse: it is legalized butchery, targeting peasants and workers whose attempts to seek redress for their systemic exploitation have been criminalized.”
6 relief ops volunteers arrested sans charges
6 relief ops volunteers arrested sans charges
“This is harassment, plain and simple. We have no violations. The police also can’t justify why they are refusing to release our volunteers. We are in a crisis situation. Now is not the time to prosecute activists and cause-oriented groups who are engaged in humanitarian and relief efforts.”
Peasant leader in Butuan arrested on ‘trumped-up charges’
Peasant leader in Butuan arrested on ‘trumped-up charges’
KMP decried the charges as fabricated, adding that Torralba has been a peasant leader since 1985.
Ang dahilan, Antonio
Ang dahilan, Antonio
(Para kay Ka Tonying Flores, magsasaka) ni RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA Bulatlat.com Tirik ang araw nang maglakbay ang bulto Patungo sa kalyeng may haring multo Nakahilera rito ang mga palasyo Nasa gitna ang tahanan ni Aquino. Makasaysayang daan umano Kadakilaan ang...
‘2013 budget for electioneering, PPPs’
‘2013 budget for electioneering, PPPs’
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The budget continues to prop up defective policies imposed by foreign creditors such as privatization while allocating huge resources for CCT dole-outs to conceal the harsh social impact of such programs and automatically setting aside a significant portion for debt servicing.” – Bayan
KMP to CBCP bishops: CARPER strengthened landlords’ control over lands
KMP to CBCP bishops: CARPER strengthened landlords’ control over lands
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The agrarian reform dispute-cases of Hacienda Luisita, Hacienda Looc in Batangas, Roxas-Araneta lands in Bulacan, among others, are concrete cases where landlords made use of the Carper to evade land distribution.” – Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
Negros farmers suffer atrocities from ‘landlord-hired bandit group’
Negros farmers suffer atrocities from ‘landlord-hired bandit group’
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
All they want is to own the land that they have been tilling for generations but hacienderos (big landlords) have hired an armed group, which signed a peace pact with the government, to attack them.
Sidebar: The peace pact with the RPA–ABB
In Negros Occidental, children suffer worst blows of rights violations
‘They took our land by force’
‘They took our land by force’
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com OPOL, Misamis Oriental – On February 10, 2011, security guards of A. Brown Company, Inc. pointed their guns at Gilbert Paborada, a leader of the local indigenous peoples group Pangalasag. One of the guards threatened Paborada that he...
Palm oil plantation impoverishes indigenous people in Opol, Misamis Oriental
Palm oil plantation impoverishes indigenous people in Opol, Misamis Oriental
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Their land and means of livelihood were taken away from them, their culture trampled upon, all in the name of public-private partnerships and foreign corporate interests.
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Anti-poverty commission has no stake in coco levy fund issue – farmers group
Anti-poverty commission has no stake in coco levy fund issue – farmers group
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Manila--The peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the Kaisahang Pambansa ng mga Magsasaka sa Koprahan (Koprahan) have called attention to the Aquino administration's formation of a coco levy task force that...
High production costs, low farm gate prices battering rice farmers – KMP
High production costs, low farm gate prices battering rice farmers – KMP
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The day after their successful National Rice Farmers’ Conference held at the University of the Philippines, farmers from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Amihan –...
KMP charges Aquino envoy of inking anomalous $300M agri-deal with Bahrain
KMP charges Aquino envoy of inking anomalous $300M agri-deal with Bahrain
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“This so-called joint venture smacks of land-grabbing and conflict of interest on the part of President Aquino’s political lieutenant in the Gulf.” – Danilo Ramos, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
Tillers reject Aquino plans to take over coco levy funds
Tillers reject Aquino plans to take over coco levy funds
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The coco levy funds would only change hands, from one Cojuangco to another Cojuangco.” – KMP deputy secretary general Willy Marbella
25 years after, justice for Mendiola massacre victims still nowhere in sight
25 years after, justice for Mendiola massacre victims still nowhere in sight
By RONALYN V. OLEA
In reaction to Secretary Ricky Carandang’s statement that there is “no practical point” in reopening the investigation as it has already been “resolved,” the relatives of the victims replied, “How could it have been resolved when no one has been punished? Now that the son is in power, all the more we have to press for justice.”
Peasant, fisherfolk groups renew call for pull-out from the WTO
Peasant, fisherfolk groups renew call for pull-out from the WTO
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
In the 17 years that the Philippines has been a member of the World Trade Organization, from being a net importer of rice, it became a net exporter as production fell considerably and land grabbing became rampant. Now, even vegetables are being heavily imported and soon imported fish products would flood the country, all in the name of the WTO.
Farmers in Northern Mindanao rally for genuine land reform
Farmers in Northern Mindanao rally for genuine land reform
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“In Bukidnon, TNCs conspire with the traditional landlords in grabbing vast tracks of land, and in evading agrarian reform programs.” – Danilo Menente, Kasama-Bukidnon
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