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Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:22:00 07/24/2009

The Inquirer’s July 19 editorial titled “Like foreign bases” erroneously viewed the opposition of the “radical sectoral representatives” to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPer) as an unholy alliance with landlords. This is the second time an Inquirer editorial tagged us as being in cahoots with landlords. We detest this biased and misinformed view.

At the height of global financial crisis, state terrorism and widespread land grabbing of huge tracts of agricultural land in poor Asian and African nations, the militant Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) Commission 6 kicked-off a “Five--month Asia-wide Peasants’ Caravan for Land and Livelihood” that will commence on July 21 to November 2009 in ten countries in Asia such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand and Sri Lanka. The theme of the Peasants’ Caravan is “Stop Global Land Grabbing!

Tamil Nadu Womens’ Forum (TNWF) vehemently condemns the court arrest of volunteers and the noted actor, the Social Rights Activist Amala. The volunteers have taken action on the hazards of GM field rice trial, in Chinna Kanjarala village of Patancheru in Andhra Pradesh, India.

The Tamil Nadu Dalit Women’s Movement (TNDWM) is organizing a State Level Conference from August 7 to 8, 2009 at Dalit Women’s Thidal, Palavoy, Arakkonam on “Economic Empowerment of Dalit Women”

Dalit women are economically at the bottom of the ladder. They are being deprived from economic sources due to discriminative practices in day today life in the caste based hierarchal society.

By John Aglionby in Jakarta
Published: July 14 2009 11:18 | Last updated: July 14 2009 11:18

Indonesia took a major step on Tuesday towards cementing closer relations with the European Union than any other Asian country when officials from both sides signed a wide-ranging Partnership and Cooperation Agreement.

The agreement had been held up for two years because of the 2007 EU ban on all Indonesian airlines entering its airspace. This ban is due to be lifted on four airlines, including the national carrier Garuda, on Tuesday night in Brussels.