By: APC Secretariat
July 12, 2011
The People’s Speak Out for Right to Land and Life is part of the International Festival for Peoples’ Rights and Struggles (IFPRS) held on July 5-6, 2011 in the Philippines. The pre-4th International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) activity is the only mass action during the two-day festival.
By : Feny Cosico, Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (AGHAM), the Philippines
PUBLISHED ON JUNE 14, 2011
“By not issuing any decision today, the Supreme Court prolongs the sufferings of farm workers and provides opportunity for the Cojuangco-Aquinos to maneuver.” – Lito Bais, president of the United Luisita Workers Union (Ulwu) said.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Farm workers from Hacienda Luisita left their homes at 4 a.m. today to witness the promulgation of the decision of the Supreme Court on the decades-old agrarian dispute.
June 8, 2011
Dear Friends,
Greetings of Solidarity!
Bukidnon is the food basket of Mindanao and the farmers are considered the backbone of the economy in the region. Yet around 800 families of rice farmers face the threat of eviction from their lands and source of livelihood in the premises of Central Mindanao University in Bukidnon, Southern Philippines.
Peasant farmers and Indigenous Peoples are calling for international attention to the urgent situation of land grabbing, militarization and the pending destruction of local small farm lands to make way for the
establishment of 11, 000 hectares of monocrop sugar cane plantations and processing facilities for a biofuel project in the municipality of San Mariano in Isabela, Philippines.
Take action now to support their efforts! Sign the online petition that will be sent directly to government authorities and chief executive officers of the companies involved in the biofuel project:
We would like to inform you that the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty ( PCFS), APC and KMP is organizing an International Fact Finding Mission in the northern province of the Philippines on the biggest agro-fuel plantation project in the country once completed. Nurseries have already been set up and the agro-fuel plant is already being constructed. The project is a joint project by a Filipino and Japanese Firm.
