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By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Filipino farmers are worried as lawmakers approved on third reading the proposal to amend the Philippine Constitution, dubbed as the “economic Cha-cha” bill, allowing full foreign ownership of land and of the country’s resources. Proponents of the Resolution of Both Houses No. 2, which was adopted on its third…

Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → June → 1 → Groups decry ‘shameless, stomach-churning’ politicking while poor still get no aid Groups decry ‘shameless, stomach-churning’ politicking while poor still get no aid MANILA – With the proposed aid for displaced workers and poor families still far from getting the presidential nod, allies of the administration in the Lower House have been pushing to open up the country’s resources to the plunder of big, foreign powe...

Published May 26, 2021, 1:13 PM The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) has batted for a P15,000-subsidy for farmers and fishermen following the approval the House of Representatives on second reading the proposed Bayanihan 3, the government’s third economic stimulus package. In a statement, the KMP called out the House of Representatives for approving Bayanihan 3, which did not particularly set aside cash aid and daily wage relief for agricultural workers. Bayanihan 3 or “Bayanihan to A...

Last convo at the ER Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura’s leader Antonio Flores joins a protest action May 11, condemning the injustices against Joseph Canlas. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat)A daughter’s last conversation with her dying father and the abominable situation inside the Angeles city jail that led to another death of a political prisoner. Joseph Canlas was the ninth under the Duterte administration and the fourth since the COVID-19 pandemic. By SINAG JOAQUIN MANILA — �...

The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) has appealed for the release of detained peasant leader Joseph Canlas who was rushed to a hospital on Saturday night, May 8, after experiencing difficulty in breathing. Photo courtesy of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP). In a statement issued

MANILA – A very bad case of déjà vu. This is how Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas Chairperson Danilo Ramos described in a statement the ongoing government response – a year into the world’s longest and strictest lockdown. On March 17, Filipino progressives marched to the Commission on Human Rights to assail President Rodrigo Duterte’s inefficient pandemic response and to press for a P10,000 (US$205) monthly financial aid for the poor. Ramos said that the country seems to be back to s...

Amid the rising number of new infections and the detection of coronavirus variants in the country, a farmers’ group said Tuesday, March 16, that the country is “back to square one” a year after the government first imposed a lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

“We are in a very crucial time, and our pork producers are in such vulnerable state, if the DA and the Duterte regime rely too much on importation now to unreliably lower prices, millions of small hog raisers are bound to go bankrupt and close permanently. Only increased local production can sustainably lower pork prices."

Farmers’ group renewed on Monday, Feb. 15, its call for the resignation of Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar, saying that the latter is behind the “worsening” state of domestic agriculture and farmers in the country.

Published February 9, 2021, 3:22 PM The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is seeking justice for a slain Bulacan farmer, who was found hogtied inside a plastic drum from a creek in Laguna, as the latter is laid to rest Tuesday. The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is seeking justice for a slain Bulacan farmer, who was found hogtied inside a plastic drum from a creek in Laguna, as the latter is laid to rest Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. (KMP / MANILA BULLETIN) KMP in a Facebook post said i...