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Tags: Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)
The plague of plantations
“Since its inception, the ASEAN has never been for the interest of the people, but for profit and monopoly capital. It serves to strengthen foreign control over raw materials, labor and supply chains in the region at the expense of the people and nations of Asia Pacific.”
Bukidnon peasants camp out in Manila to assert right to land
For more than 30 years, BTL farmers have been in a deadlock with the CMU administration over 517 hectares of land.
Land of promises | Agrarian reform in Duterte’s 1st year
Thirty years under a sham agrarian reform program and one year under a progressive agrarian reform chief.
Big plantations create big problems in Mindanao
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “In the name of development, the nexus of state and TNCs (transnational corporations) has dispossessed people of their lands, resources and rights, captivating the whole island and enslaving people in TNC-led plantations and mines. The original masters of the land have become slaves in…
Luisita Workers Reject GMA Expressway; Press for Her Ouster
After stopping plantation and milling operations at Hacienda Luisita, cane workers and their families gear up for blocking the construction of one of President Macapagal-Arroyo’s flagship projects – a super expressway. By Abner Bolos Bulatlat.com The much-delayed Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway Project (SCTEP), one of the 10 flagship programs of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, may yet face its…
17 Years Old and Getting Worse
By Jasper Almirante/ Bulatlat Bulatlat.com On the 17th anniversary of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), Filipino farmers remain plagued by landlessness, as land use conversion favoring multinational agri-business giants chews into the little food security that the country still enjoys. Instead of addressing the ages-old maladies of landlessness and hunger, 17 years of the…