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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.

Angry at IRRI

For us Asians, life is unimaginable without rice. Everyday, we have rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, even for snacks and dessert. Rice fields are the most recognisable feature of our landscape. Many of our ancestors and compatriots are rice farmers.

VERDICT OF THE IRRI TRIBUNAL

Dear Friends,

The First Asian Peoples’ Tribunal against International Rice Research Institute’s (IRRI) held on April 4, 2006 in Quezon City, Philippines found the IRRI GUILTY of its crimes against the farmers and peoples of Asia in its 46 years of existence in Southeast Asia.

The Tribunal was sponsored by the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PAN AP) and was organized by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and RESIST Agrochem TNCs.

Report of the International Peasant Solidarity Mission (IPSM)

The present human rights situation in the Philippines worsened under the regime of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA), beset with the worst economic and political crisis, intensified its political repression and state terrorism against political activist and the people. From 2001 to July 2006, Karapatan (a human rights watchdog), recorded 720 political killings and rampant human rights violations (HRVs), 54% of the victims are peasants.

APRN Coordinated research books readable online

The books Coordinated Research Conference on Agrarian Reform and Impact of Globalization on Women Labor can now be read online. Just click on the Coordinated Researches tab on the main menu, and you will be able to read these books online.

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APRN Coordinated Research Conference on Agrarian Reform
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Onward the Struggle for Genuine Agrarian Reform; Resist Imperialist Plunder and War

Because of the major problem of landlessness and the peasants’ unrelenting clamor for land and rural justice, the Philippine government has been implementing bogus agrarian reform programs since the 1930s. In line with the agenda of the United States in the Philippines, most of these programs encouraged modifications in tenancy relations, and resettlement in Mindanao and Palawan where land was still abundant. Such programs had to boost productivity and expand the area planted to export crops that were needed for the US market.