Aquino: "Balang" para sa mga magsasaka ng Hacienda Luisita
Sa pangunguna ng Alyansa ng Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala), Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL) at Anakpawis Partylist-GL, naglunsad ang mga magsasaka ng Hacienda Luisita at Gitnang Luson ng apat (4) na araw na martsa-lakbayan na tinaguriang “Lakbayan para sa Libreng Pamamahagi ng Lupa sa Hacienda Luisita” sa Abril 24-27, 2013 mula sa probinsya ng Tarlac patungong Angeles City, San Fernando, Bulacan, Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR National Office) at magtatapos sa Mendiola, National Capital Region (NCR) . [...] CL farmers denounce upcoming Balikatan exercises
Central Luzon-based groups denounce the upcoming Balikatan exercises and warned the risk of allowing the United States armed forces to practically use the region and the country as a military base or a staging ground of its war of aggression against China or North Korea. The Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (Amgl), Anakpawis Partylist, Central Luzon Ayta Association (CLAA), Timpuyog Katutubo – Nueva Ecija and Katribu Partylist – Central Luzon expressed opposition of the US-Philippine Balikatan exercises as it trample national sovereignty, threatens livelihood and safety, and affirmed their demand to revoke the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the US and the Philippines. “We urge the people of Central Luzon to oppose the Balikatan exercises as they are an insult to us as a sovereign people who should be free from foreign military intervention and involvement,” Joseph Canlas said, Amgl chairperson and Anakpawis Partylist – Central Luzon regional coordinator. [...] |
Justice for Willem Geertman Campaign
Who is Willem Geertman and Why He was Killed
Wilhelmus JJ Lutz Geertman belonged to a religious missionary group Calama in the Netherlands. A religious group who dedicate their work in serving oppressed people in the Third World such as the Philippines. He arrived in the Philippines in early 1970s where he enrolled at the Ateneo De Manila University and University of the Philippines to deepen his understanding of the Filipino people. [...] |
Peasant Struggle in Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija is publicly known as the rice-granary of the Philippines. Its vast agricultural lands are cultivated with rice that farmers consider their main source of livelihood. Rice cultivation is also the culture of Nueva Ecija farmers. The province’ 158,269-hectare rice lands ranked 2nd in the country, but irrigated lands of 119,459-hectares are the biggest among provinces. It also ranked 2nd in production, harvesting about 560,379 metric tons or 7.29 million sacks of rice, but first in irrigated palay of 462,185 metric tons. Its production compose 9% of the country’s total and 43% of the region’s total. Irrigated lands compose about 75% of the its total rice lands, thus, it is very clear that agriculture is distinguishedly productive. Rice farms yield about 80 to 100 cavans per hectare with some reaching to 120 cavans. Plain lands in the province are more than half which are of high potential for agricultural production. [...]
Aurora Peasants' Struggle Against APECO
APECO is Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Act of 2010 or Republic Act 10083. It is a program that aims to transform Casiguran town as well as the whole Aurora to as an investment haven, site of commercial and industrial districts and eco-tourism zones.
Before APECO, the Angaras, namely Sen. Edgardo Angara and his son, Rep. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara filed the Aurora Special Economic Zone Act of 2007 or ASEZA in Congress, House Bill 5309 at the House of Representatives and Senate Bill 2603 at the Senate. ASEZA was passed on February 20, 2007 during the Arroyo administration. The program targeted 493-hectares of prime agricultural land at Brgy. Esteves and Dibet in Casiguran town as the site of the project. [...]
Farmers demand cessation of mining operations in Sta. Cruz, Zambales
Farmers belonging to Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (Amgl, Farmers’ Alliance in Central Luzon) and Movement for the Protection of Environment (Move Now!) called to the immediate cessation of mining operations in Sta. Cruz town in Zambales. Move Now! and its member organizations Agapan ang Kaligtasan at Kabuhayan (AGAP) – Zambales, SAGIP Zambales conducted a fact-finding mission on March 12 to 13 to validate the ill-effects of mining operations to the people of Sta. Cruz. Amgl, Anakpawis Partylist and other cause-oriented groups joined the said activity and confirmed that the mining operations have affected the environment, their livelihood and their health. The mission also identified the corporations who are operating such as Benguetcorp Nickel Mines, Inc. and its contractor D. M. Consunji, Inc. (DMCI), Eramen Minerals, Inc., Shangfil Mining and Trading Corp., Filipinas Mining Corp., PhilAsia and Loren and Leoni (LnL). [...]
Land grabbing and displacement in Tarlac
The Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL, Farmers Alliance in Central Luzon) and Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Tarlak (AMT, Farmers Alliance in Tarlac) condemned the recent displacement efforts by land grabbers pushed by the ongoing construction of Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEx). The project is now causing massive unrest among farmers in Tarlac City, particularly at barangays San Pascual, Batang-batang, Villa Bacolor, San Manuel and Balingcanaway. TPLEX is the northern component of the Metro-Luzon Urban Beltway (MLUB) as part of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s “super regions” program. [...]
Land grabbing in Pangasinan
The Cojuangco-controlled Central Azucarera de Tarlac Realty Corporation (CAT) is claiming ownership of the 386.8-hectare agricultural and residential lands covering about 12 barangays in Bayambang town, province of Pangasinan. This is also the site of the 289-hectare Camp Gregg Military Reservation declared by the US colonial government from 1903 to 1949. The Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL, Peasant Alliance in Central Luzon) is preparing to campaign against the imminent Cojuangco-led landgrabbing which would definitely result into massive dislocation of farmers and residents, and Land Use Conversions. [...]
