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KMP’s 25 Years of Rich Experience in Advancing Peasant Rights, A Great Inspiration in Asia

The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) warmly greets the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) or Peasant Movement of the Philippines)on its 25th Anniversary of Continuous Struggle for Land, Justice and Freedom. KMP’s rich experience in advancing peasant rights to land serves as an inspiration to peasants all-over Asia.

Message of Solidarity of ILPS Commission 6 on the 25th Anniversary of KMP

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) Commission 6 salutes the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) for 25 years of fervent struggle for Land, Justice and Freedom. KMP has been at the forefront of the struggle for Genuine Land Reform in the Philippines since the Marcos era, drumming up issues and upholding the interests of the Filipino peasantry.

OWINFS Seminar for Farmers on Agriculture and WTO

In advance of the upcoming 7th Ministerial of the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland on November 30 – December 2nd, 2009, the Agriculture Working Group (Ag WG) of the Our World Is Not For Sale (OWINFS) network organized a capacity-building seminar for farmers on agriculture and the WTO.

Call to Action against the Killings and Police Brutality in Andra Pradesh

August 5, 2010

Dear APC Members,

On July 22, 2010, we sent a PROTEST LETTER on the Killings and Police Brutality in Andra Pradesh, India address to its Prime Minister, Environmental and Forest Minister, National Advisory Council Chairperson, Governor of Andra Pradesh, Director General and Superintendent of Police (see sample below).

In line with this, we would like to CALL YOUR ATTENTION (your organization) to SEND a PROTEST LETTER to the officials cited above, as an expression of your support to APVVU.

Danilo Ramos
APC Secretary General

RICE LANDS: STILL UNDER SIEGE:

This is an updated version of the first booklet "Rice lands: Fields of Agony and Fields of Hope". It describes the grabbing of rice lands all over Asia by corporations and governments and the destruction this wreaks on poor rice farming communities. Land is becoming more and more a critical issue as the right to land and productive resources is fundamental to genuine agrarian reform and food sovereignty. This booklet drives home the fact that the right to land is tantamount to the right to life for small farmers and communities.

STATEMENT OF SUPPORT TO THE INDIAN PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE AND AGAINST OPERATION GREEN HUNT OF THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT

We, peasants from the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) strongly support the Indian people’s struggle against the Operation Green Hunt being implemented by the Indian government.

We strongly condemn the inhuman abuses of Indian military backed by US imperialism, the killings of Indian people, particularly peasants, the torture and rape, dislocation of 20 million peasants and hamletting and other forms of human rights violations. We hold the Indian government and US military and government for the violence imposed upon the Indian people.

Macroeconomic Benefits from Genuine Agrarian Reform

A paper presented by Ms. Rosario Bella Guzman of IBON Foundation, on May 20, 2009 during the deliberation by the Philippine House of Representatives Committee on Agrarian Reform on House Bill No. 3059 or Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB).

Keynote address to International Conference on Education, Imperialism and Resistance

The availability of formal education at the basic and higher levels to comparatively larger numbers of people differentiates the modern world of the bourgeoisie and working class from the ancient world of the slave masters and feudal lords. The wider extent of education is made possible by the larger amount of surplus product created by the modern forces of production and is required by the greater need for mass literacy, professional and technical skills to maintain as well as to advance the level of material and cultural development.

A call to campaign for livelihoods and social justice

The loss or erosion of livelihoods is the most concrete and widespread impact of the current crisis of the world capitalist system on people’s lives, both in the advanced capitalist countries as well as in the underdeveloped countries. Despite recent pronouncements from state officials and the business press that economic recovery is in sight, the global economy continues to tumble with the gross domestic product of the leading capitalist countries still contracting, consumer spending still in decline and unemployment still rising.

The Great Rice Robbery: A handbook on the impact of IRRI in Asia

The Great Rice Robbery : A handbook on the impact of IRRI in Asia aims to highlight the serious impacts of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)’s actions and its close ties with the agrochemical industry. It is offered as a tribute to the hundreds of thousands of peasant rice farmers and agricultural workers especially in Asia who have suffered and are still suffering the full brunt of IRRI’s failed experimentation through the Green Revolution.