AGRARIAN REFORM   A progressive party-list solon slammed the Cojuangco group of companies’ plan to donate 50 hectares of land in Hacienda Luisita to the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), calling the move as “a plot to weaken and undermine farmers’ legitimate claim over the contested lands.”

POLITICS   The spirit of EDSA I is dead, EDSA II was a big mistake, and a new EDSA movement is needed.

Speaker Prospero Nograles was again criticized by agrarian reform advocates for delaying the plenary deliberations for House Bill No. 4077 or the CARP Extension with Reforms bill.
RCM vowed to continue its campaign for CARP extension with reforms saying that the farmers have already started the “Lupang Hinirang, Lupang Hinarang” campaign which include marches, educational fora and signature gathering to apprise …

Farmers seeking the distribution of Arroyo lands have denounced Atty. Ruy Rondain, lawyer of First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, for saying during a protest rally of farmers on Tuesday that Arroyo does not own the 157-hectare Hacienda Bacan in Barangay Guintubhan, Isabela, Negros Occidental.
“It was a blatant lie, and said right before a television camera. It’s amazing how some people around …

A delegation of 24 farmers belonging to the peasant federation Task Force Mapalad gave members of the Senate a red rose each, signifying their plea for immediate passage of Senate Bill No. 2666 for extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and for inquiry into Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Memorandum No. 09-01804 issued last January 12 by Secretary …

Negros Occidental Bishop Vicente Navarra has urged Malacañang and Congress to stop giving the farmers the runaround and instead listen to their demand for land distribution and for extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) with reforms.
In a homily during a concelebrated mass held at the San Sebastian Cathedral here where some 500 protest marchers from various haciendas all …

The peasant federation Task Force Mapalad said more farmers from Davao and Bukidnon in Mindanao and from various provinces in Luzon are arriving in Manila to reinforce some 500 farmers from Negros Occidental who held a protest rally Tuesday morning near Malacañang to demand immediate passage of a law extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and the distribution of …

Multi-sector groups and religious leaders have denounced Malacañang for violent dispersal Thursday night of some 500 farmers who staked out along Chino Roces Ave. to demand immediate passage of a law extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and the distribution of Arroyo landholdings in Negros Occidental.
The Rural Poor Solidarity (RPS), a broad coalition of peasant advocate groups, said the …

500 farmers from Negros and Leyte who are seeking immediate enactment of a law extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) with reforms and the redistribution of Arroyo lands in Negros Occidental will stake out indefinitely on Mendiola St. near Malacañang until they receive favorable response from President Arroyo, according to peasant federation Task Force Mapalad.
TFM president Jose Rodito Angeles …