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January 28, 2012
San Mariano, Isabela, PHILIPPINES - More than 200 agricultural workers of the BNR Construction & Development and Metaphil, the subcontractor companies of Japan Gas Corporation, started their strike on January 21, 2012 for withholding their 13th month pay and arbitrary dismissal of twenty (20) co-workers who joined a protest rally.
January 21, 2012
NEWS RELEASE
Manila, PHILIPPINES -- The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) , with 33 organizational members in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, expresses its support to the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultur
a (UMA) in its call for the “free distribution” of Hacienda Luisita and other agricultural estates in the country in a rally held on Friday joined by more than 1,500 farmers and other militant groups to commemorate the 1987 Mendiola massacre.
The KMP said the free distribution of lands to farmers, which was the battle cry of those who died in the massacre, remains unfulfilled up to now.
Senyerang, Jambi, INDONESIA – The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and the Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) strongly expresses it support to the Senyerang farmers for successfully taking back their land at Senyerang village in Tanjung Barat regency.
PRESS RELEASE December 24, 2011 SENYERANG, Indonesia - The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and the Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) strongly supports the militant action of one thousand five hundred (1,500) farmers from Senyerang, a village in Tanjung Barat regency, led by the Persatuan Petani Jambi (PPJ) or Farmers Union of Jambi to get back their land and resist landgrabbing against PT Wira Karya Sakti (WKS), a subsidiary of the Sinar Mas Group. “The Senyerang farmers started the militant action at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, December 21 in canal 15 and 16 to reach the land to be reclaimed. The farmers built emergency bridge in canal 19 because the PT WKS company cut off the old bridge in order to block the entrance to the village,” according to Hatta (Farmer Union of Jambi (PPJ) and also leader of Senyerang village.
NEWS RELEASE
December 22, 2011
Dhaka, BANGLADESH – “End Landgrabbing!, this was declared by the participants of the 20-day “South Asian Caravan on Climate, Gender, and Food Sovereignty 2011” held from 15 November until 4 December 2011 from North to South Bangladesh covering 12 Districts and 18 Sub-districts.
NEWS RELEASE
December 20, 2011
The peasant leaders of the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) calls on the Asian peasants to advance their unity for genuine agrarian reform and food sovereignty during the South Asia Regional Peoples’ Convention on Food Sovereignty from December 10-12, 2011 at Kolkata, India.
The statement said that the Peoples’ Convention officially opened on December 10, while we are commemorating the 63rd International Human Rights Day. Shri Biplab Halim, Executive Director of the Institute for Motivating Self-Employment (IMSE) and representing the Indian Federation of Toiling Peasants (IFTOP) gave the welcome address. He said that today, we pay tribute to all human rights defenders while we are here to discuss on our basic human rights – right to land, right to food and right to livelihoods. We hope that in our sharing, we will enable to identify general positions on these issues and to come up with a very basic plan of action.
MEDIA RELEASE
December 17, 2011
The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) composed of more than 15 million members representing 33 organizations in nine (9) countries in Asia such as Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Pakistan, Mongolia, Philippines and Indonesia urge their governments to withdraw their membership to the World Trade Organization (WTO) saying that their country’s inclusion to the neo-liberal trading system wreak havoc to local agriculture and promoted landgrabbing across their countries.
NEWS RELEASE
December 17, 2011
JAKARTA, Indonesia – The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) condemn the Indonesian parliament for approving, on December 16, a long-awaited land acquisition bill. The APC says the bill will intensify landgrabbing in Indonesia.
“ Land Acquisition Bill will heighten landgrabbing in Indonesia. Although the bill only applies to government projects, it will benefit privately operated projects on government-bought land. The government is relying on about $150 billion of private investment between 2010 and 2014 to overhaul its roads, railways and ports,” remarked Rahmat Ajiguna, Deputy Secretary General of the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and concurrent Secretary General of the Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) based in Indonesia.
NEWS RELEASE
December 15, 2011
GENEVA – The activist farmers group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Peasant Movement of the Philippines – KMP) at the opening of the 8th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland today assailed as “undemocratic” the draft “political guidance” text issued by the multi-lateral trade body earlier this month.
PRESS RELEASE
December 11, 2011
Kolkata, INDIA - A peasant leader of the Aliansi Gerakan Reform Agraria (AGRA) from Indonesia attended the Coordinating Council Meeting (CC) of the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) held on December 7, 2011 in Kolkata, India to seek the international support against intimidation of four (4) AGRA farmers in Pangalengan, Bandung Regency, West Java Province of Indonesia.
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