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First Posted 05:31:00 09/30/2009

LP standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s position to simply leave Hacienda Luisita runs counter to social justice and agrarian reform. The actuation of Hacienda Luisita’s management, giving farmers an Oct. 30, 2009 ultimatum “to discontinue and desist from using, cultivating, planting or possessing the lands,” shows that the Cojuangco-Aquino family will not let go of the property.

24 September 2009

ADB President to Attend Hanoi Forum on Social Impacts of Economic Crisis
MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda will visit Viet Nam on Monday to attend a major international conference on the social impacts of the global economic crisis.

September 4, 2009

Dear Friends,

On behalf of Alliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria or Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement (AGRA), a member of the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) in Indonesia, we are writing you regarding the 7.3 earthquake that hit West Java on September 2.

One of the areas worst damage was Pangalengan, Bandung. Pangalengan is a strong mass base of AGRA, thousand of their members lived there. More than 80% of houses were destroyed affecting thousand farmers and their families including house of Rahmat, AGRA national officer.

The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) expresses its support to Chilean people against seed privatization.

We are asking you to sign the petition letter: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/noprivaticenlassemillas to reject the bill on Rights of Breeders of new Plant Varieties which is now being discussed by Chilean Parliament due to Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States (US).

Dear Friends,

The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) supports the initiative of the International Planning Committee (IPC) CALLING for an independent "People's Food Sovereignty Forum 2009" on November 13-17, 2009 in Rome with the theme “Eradicating Hunger and Poverty now! Nothing against us, nothing without us.” This is the forum of people’s organizations, social movements and NGOs parallel to the World Summit on Food Security on November 16-18, 2009 in Rome propsed by the FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf to agree on key actions to tackle global economic crisis by affecting jobs and deepening poverty.