Hacienda Luisita farmers led by the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala) trooped to the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging Sec. Leila de Lima to act on their complaints of harassment by security forces of Tarlac Development Corporation (Tadeco) who were fencing and bulldozing their crops and farmlands. The group also filed […]
Another company owned by the Cojuangco-Aquino family has been grabbing lands in the disputed farmlands inside the sugar estate. This is according to Anakpawis Party-list, which slammed the move of Central Azucarera de Tarlac (CAT) to deploy armed security groups and illegally fence and bulldoze an estimated 200 hectares of farmlands in Brgys. Mapalacsiao and […]
Fronting the huge tract of agricultural land in Brgy. Balete in Hacienda Luisita was a long concrete fence and a sign that said “Development soon to rise”. But on March 6, two days before the International Women’s Day, it was the women of Hacienda Luisita who rose. For months now, these women were among the […]
A network to “keep watch” over the continuing agrarian unrest in Hacienda Luisita was formed amid efforts by the Cojuangco-Aquinos to remain in control of the estate through land grabbing led by the Tarlac Development Corporation (Tadeco). Luisita Watch, a network of individuals and organizations “advocating the cause of Hacienda Luisita farmers” was launched last […]
The payment of P471 million to President Aquino’s family by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is tantamount to “brazen” fraud and plunder, the peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today said. The KMP demands that the money be returned to the government and that the Cojuangcos pay the “billion-peso debt they owe to […]
The land had just yielded a bountiful rice harvest. Farmers were just about ready to sow mongo seeds to rejuvenate the land and prepare it for the next planting season. But on the morning of January 16, farmers in Brgy. Cutcut woke up to find that a hut, a security outpost of the Cojuangco-owned Tarlac […]
Farmers bearing the brunt of landlessness and “fascist attacks” of state forces today marched to the gates of Malacañang to press for the ouster of President Aquino, saying that injustice has heightened 27 years after the Mendiola Massacre. Hundreds of farmers from Hacienda Luisita, Hacienda Dolores, and other areas of unresolved land disputes in Central […]
Farmers from the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today filed a plunder case before the Office of the Ombudsman against Pres. Benigno Aquino III, Budget Sec. Florencio Abad, Agrarian Sec. Virgilio Delos Reyes, Janet Lim-Napoles, and nine others over the misuse of P125 Million of the Malampaya Fund. In a 16-page complaint with 70 documentary […]
Groups under the Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL) demanded justice for three farmers who were “attacked” by security guards in Hacienda Dolores in Porac, Pampanga, resulting to the death of one farmer. According to AMGL, Arman Padino, together with father-and-son, Noel and Reynold Tumali were fired upon by alleged security guards and armed […]
Pinabibitiw sa puwesto ng Anakpawis Party-list si Orlan Calayag, administrador ng National Food Authority (NFA), dahil sa diumano’y pagiging US citizen niya at nanawagan sa Bureau of Immigration na pabilisin ang proseso ng deportasyon nito sa Estados Unidos. Kinondena rin ng grupo si Sec. Prospero Alcala ng Department of Agriculture (DA) sa paglalagay niya kay […]
