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“For the months that they were in Barangay Salamanca, Errol reported that 18-hectares of land being cultivated by 16 peasant worker families, or 32 individuals, should have long been awarded to the farm workers. Based on Errol’s research, the person controlling the land only holds a tax declaration, not title."
A family-owned hacienda in Sara, Iloilo has left generations of farmers without their own fields to till since the 1990s, despite government’s promises of distributing Certificate of Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs).
Bungkalan is a peaceful peasant action, that is, until police shows up.
“Planting food and supporting farmers are no mischief, and the right to assembly is guaranteed by the highest law in the land.”
“Deprived farmers are faced with violent reprisal when they assert their rightful claim to land. This exposes CARP as instrumental to landlords while the majority of our farmers remain landless, poor, and hungry."
The demolition comes as the latest in a series of operations conducted by Royal Moluccan Realty Holdings, Inc. (RMRHI), beginning in early 2018.
The living conditions in the Negros island have been – time and again – a glaring example of government’s failure to implement genuine agrarian reform.
MANILA -- Amid numerous angles in Sagay Massacre the police and the Duterte administration say they will look into, peasant and rights groups said an independent probe on the massacre is all the more necessary now. Peasant women's group Amihan in another statement...
'The manner by which the killing was committed points to impunity on the part of the perpetrators.'
“Not one area of any successful bungkalan did not go through harassment from soldiers, goons, policemen.”
“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.”
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.
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.
This harvest season, the farmers of Baloc, Sto. Domingo reaped the fruit of their struggle for land.
Protests in the countryside show growing clamor for genuine agrarian reform.
Tension and terror arise anew in the Tarlac hacienda.
“The struggle in Hacienda Luisita is the struggle of the Filipino people.”
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