NEWS RELEASE
May 31, 2009
MUMBAI, India - The militant Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) denounces the brutal demolition of residents at Netaji Nagar, a 60-acre slum community situated near the vicinity of Eastern Express Highway on May 30 by Police personnel from Pant Nagar Police Station.
Danilo Ramos, APC Secretary General
Phone number: +632-3793083
P. Chenaaiah, APC Deputy Secretary General
E-mail: apvvu98@gmail.com
MANILA — Farmers’ groups trooped to the House of Representatives in Quezon City Tuesday to denounce the violent dispersal of their camp-out outside the south gate of the Batasan Pambansa Complex last Friday.
“We condemn the violent dismantling of our camp-out. Instead of legislating a genuine land reform program, they dispersed our ranks,” Danilo Ramos, secretary-general of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), said in Filipino.
The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) officers led by Danilo Ramos, APC Secretary General and P. Chennaiah, APC Deputy Secretary General joined the successful Our Is Not For Sale (OWINFS) Global Meeting (OGM) in Cape Town, South Africa from May 11 to 14, 2009.
News Release
May 23, 2009
Manila, Philippines - On May 22, 2009, elements of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and security guards of the House of Representatives (HOR) brutally demolished the Rural People’s Camp-out initiated by the members of the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) in the Philippines: such as the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), PAMALAKAYA (National Federation of Small Fiserfolks of the Philippines), AMIHAN (National Federation of Peasant Women) and UMA (National Union of Agricultural Workers), together with KASAMA-TK (KMP’s regional chapter in Southern Tagalog).
Danilo Ramos, APC and KMP Secretary-General
Email address: apc_secretariat@yahoo.com
On its 40th day, the rural people's camp-out, led by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, for the passage of the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB), is violently dispersed.
Although the farmers and their supporters put up a vigorous resistance, the police, with their truncheons and shields, succeeded in carrying out the House order of dismantling and destroying the front structure and dispersing the farmers. Nine people were injured, including Antonio Flores, KMP Auditor.
May 19, 2009
Dear Mr. President,
We are very worried about the current situation in Korea, namely with the raiding of the office of the South Korean branch, Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification (PKAR) and the arrest of 3 activists.
We understand that Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification (PKAR) was founded in 1991 as a part of the efforts for reconciliation and solidarity among the South Koreans, North Koreans and Korean residents in the foreign countries.
ASIA-PACIFIC PEOPLES’ TRIBUNAL ON ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
ADB: Development for the People or for Profit?
May 2-3, 2009
Udayana University Faculty of Medicine Auditorium
Denpasar-Bali, Indonesia
ALIANSI GERAKAN REFORMA AGRARIA
(AGRA), ALLIANCE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
OF NUSANTARA/INDONESIA, ASIA PACIFIC
RESEARCH NETWORK (APRN), ASIAN PEASANT
COALITION (APC), ASIA PACIFIC FORUM ON
WOMEN, LAW AND DEVELOPMENT (APWLD),
ASIA SOUTH PACIFIC ASSOCIATION FOR BASIC
AND ADULT EDUCATION (ASPBAE), ATKI JAKARTA,
BANGLAPRAXIS, E-NET FOR JUSTICE, FORUM ON
Written by IBON Foundation, Inc.
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Members of peasant groups and civil society organizations held a picket rally on April 29 at the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Quezon City, Philippines to serve the indictment on human rights violations committed by the regional multilateral institution.
