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Petition Letter: SEZ Expansion in Andhra Pradesh, India (to Andhra Pradesh State Government)
SEZ Expansion in Andhra Pradesh, India (to Andhra Pradesh State Government)

Petition Letter: SEZ Expansion in Andhra Pradesh, India
(to Andhra Pradesh State Government)

To:
Justice Shri B. Subhashan Reddy
Chairperson
Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission
Tele(o): 24601574 Tele(r):23223381
Fax: 24601573
E-Mail: aphumanrights@ap.nic.in

Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh,
'C' Block, 6th Floor, AP Secretariat
Office Phone: 23456698,23451805,23455205
Residence Phone: 23410333, 23410555, 23410666
Fax: (Off)23452498,23454828
E-Mail: cmap@ap.gov.in

Dear Sir/Madam,

KMP asked Chief Justice to release peasant leader
SC chief pressed on peasant leader's release
MANILA, Philippines – Militant groups asked Chief Justice Reynato Puno to act immediately on a petition filed by peasant leader Randall Echanis to dismiss murder charges that has kept him in jail for 17 months. The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and the Free Randall Echanis Movement (Freedom), an umbrella organization of farmers and fisher folk groups, made the request in a letter sent to Puno on Monday.
An Appeal to the International Community: Raise their Voice against State repression in Lalgarh, West Bengal, India
COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS (CRPP)

We at the CRPP wish to draw the attention of the international community to the plight of the adivasi people in one corner of the State of West Bengal, India. That area is called Lalgarh--an integral part of Jangal Mahal i.e., a vast stretch of forest area situated in the West Medinipur district of West Bengal. The tribal people of India had always been the targets of some of the worst man-eating policies of the ruling classes, be that during colonial times or during the period following the ‘transfer of power’ to friendly hands in 1947.

Senate Urged to Probe Lorico Murder
By EDMUND B. SESTOSO

DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — The progressive Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas in Central Visayas has urged the Philippine Senate to conduct an investigation into the murder of Negros Oriental peasant leader Fermin Lorico.

Earlier, KMP affiliate Kapunungan Alang sa Ugma sa Gagmayng Mag-uuma sa Oriental Negros (Kaugmaon, or Association of Small Farmers of Oriental Negros) pinpointed the 79th Infantry Batallion of the Philippine Army as the culprit behind Lorico’s murder last June 10, 2009, in San Jose Extension in Dumaguete City.

Another ‘Travesty’ as Congress Votes to Extend Life of Failed CARP
http://www.bulatlat.com/main/2009/06/04/another-travesty-as-congress-votes-to-ex...

PUBLISHED ON JUNE 4, 2009 AT 9:07 AM
By MAO HERMITANIO and JANESS ANN J.ELLAO
Bulatlat

The landlord-dominated Congress, led by the relatives of President Arroyo, voted Wednesday night to add five more years to the implementation of a 20-year-old agrarian-reform program that has failed to uplift the lives of peasants and farmers in the Philippines. And critics say the new proposed law is even worse than the original.

Days After Violent Dispersal, Farmers Go Back to Congress
BY ANNA KRISTINA P. VIRTUSIO PUBLISHED ON MAY 27, 2009 AT 11:07 AM Bulatlat

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.

Prospects for peace in Palestine
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo

The trickiest part in solving a problem is acknowledging, identifying and formulating it correctly. The Palestine-Israel conflict is complex and deeply rooted, complicated by big power rivalry and stakes in the Middle East, and the conflicts spawned and fanned by the Bush-bannered war of terror in the region and world-wide.

Now that a ceasefire has taken place in Gaza with the last of Israel forces reported to have withdrawn from the Strip, the logical question is: how long will this truce last and will a just and lasting peace ensue?

ASEAN People's Center Launching
http://www.tenaganita.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=267&Itemid=1

Southeast Asian’s civil society step up the engagement with ASEAN by establishing the ASEAN People’s Center in Jakarta (Jakarta, 15 January 2009), A coalition of civil society organizations in the Southeast Asian region today calls on the ASEAN to give its full cooperation to the civil society center in Jakarta as a show of its commitment to enhance the participation of the peoples in its decision making and make ASEAN a truly “People-oriented ASEAN”.

Still Fighting for the Land They Till
By Bulatlat and KMP

They came from different places. One farmers’ group tries to eke out a living farming the land they have been tilling in Bukidnon in Mindanao, and the other farmers’ group is in Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon. They may be miles apart, but their stories are the same. A land that was almost theirs

Florentino Macote, Jr. is president of the Buffalo Tamaraw Limus Farmers’ Association (BTL) in Bgy. Musuan Dulogon, Maramag, Bukidnon. He is among the 378 farmers tilling the 400 hectares of land inside the Central Mindanao University (CMU).

IFFM LOOKS AT RIGHT TO FOOD IN AP
www.panap.net

Press Release, 23 February 2008

International Fact Finding Mission investigated displacement and destruction of livelihoods in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh (India)due to SEZ and expansion of port