CETRI
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Pull-out military from Hacienda Luisita, peasants urged Noynoy
Roy Morilla 27/08/10
The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) and Katipunan ng mga Samahang Magbubukid sa Timog Katagalugan (KASAMA-TK, KMP Southern Tagalog) urged president Benigno « Noynoy » Aquino to immediately (…)
Hengara : Perseverance and hope
A.K. Ramakrishnan, M.S. Sreerekha 10/08/10
August 2010 will be three years after hundreds of families forcefully settled themselves in the plantation land at Chengara, which is otherwise illegally occupied by the Harrison’s Plantations. A visit to Chengara in June 2010, in a reasonably (…)
Land struggles
13/03/08
« Three-quarters of the world’s 852 million men and women suffering from hunger are found in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their survival. Most of them are landless farmers or have such tiny or unproductive plots of land that they (…)