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Despite the price freeze imposed on essential items, prices of agricultural products and other basic goods continue to jack up in public markets at the start of the year, peasants groups lamented.
(MANILA BULLETIN0 Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) chair Danilo Ramos said that Congress amending the Constitution to abolish the partylists won’t do the public any good because some marginalized sectors are represented through the party-list system. “The party-list system was penetrated by known political dynasties and traditional political parties. It is unjust that the real representatives of marginalized sectors are being attacked outrightly by the regime in power,” he said in a statement. The peasant leader noted the consistent tirades by Duterte against progressive partylist...
Published January 2, 2021, 1:38 PM A human rights watchdog and farmer’s group condemned the arrests and killings of indigenous people from the Tumandok community on Panay Island. “These killings and arrests are meant to instill fear upon indigenous communities in order to silence their opposition to so-called development projects that encroach upon their ancestral domains and right to self-determination,” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said, referring to the construction of the Jalaur Mega Dam project, which the Tumandok IPs have opposed. Karapatan called on the Commissi...
(Photo courtesy of Police Regional Office-3 / MANILA BULLETIN) Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) chair Danilo Ramos said the killing of an unarmed mother and son in Paniqui, Tarlac by Nuezca was not an “isolated” incident contrary to claims by authorities. “This appaling incident should wake us to the fundamental flaws of the police force,” he said in a statement. The peasant group cited that Nuezca has previous homicide cases on record that were closed due to lack of evidence and witnesses. Nuezca, 46, assigned at a police crime laboratory in Parañaque City, shot Sonya and Fran...
Published December 22, 2020, 4:59 PM Some 400 farmers are facing eviction from agricultural lands to give way to the supposed construction of a transmission tower in Lupang Ramos, Dasmariñas City, Cavite. This comes after the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) and the National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR), proponents of the project, served a “Notice to Vacate” to the farmer-residents of Lupang Ramos on October 23. The letter gave the farmer households of Lupang Ramos until today, December 22 to vacate the 372-hectare land. Representatives of NGCP and NAPOCOR explained...