Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:31:41 +0000
The attack on noncombatant figures of the Left continued on Friday (Aug. 1) with the killing by masked gunmen of one member of a militant farmers’ group
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:14:37 +0000
A member of a left-wing organization of farmers was gunned down outside his house at Barangay Halapitan, San Fernando town in Bukidnon province on Saturday (June 16) in what appeared to be another attack on the Left.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 07:42:08 +0000
The safeguards provided in the IRR of the rice tariffication law are not enough to cushion the impact of liberalizing rice importation.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 23:25:24 +0000
CEBU CITY — Human rights and farmers’ organizations in the Visayas want to hold accountable the police and military officials involved in joint operations that led to the killing of 14 farmers in two towns and a city in Negros Oriental province on March 30.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:24:04 +0000
TUGUEGARAO CITY — The farmers’ group Danggayan Dagiti Mannalon ti Cagayan Valley (Danggayan) has assailed the military and Cagayan Gov. Manuel Mamba for allegedly luring farmers and members of the left-wing Anakpawis party-list group to attend a meeting where they were branded as communist rebels who were surrendering to the government. Isabelo Adviento, Danggayan president, […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:32:22 +0000
The leftist peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Tuesday said the latest round of big-time fuel price increases would hurt low- to middle-income earners, especially farmers and fishermen who made up the country’s poorest sectors.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:38:06 +0000
The economic research group Ibon Foundation on Tuesday warned that the rice tariffication law would neither improve the productivity of local farmers, lower the price of rice, or ensure a stable rice supply unless the government gave substantial support to agriculture.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 21:18:49 +0000
A human rights group in Mindanao questioned the recent arrest of “lumad” and peasant leaders who were earlier reported missing in Cagayan de Oro City, comparing the actions by police and the military to the tactics used by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler against his enemies.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 01:21:59 +0000
A member of a farmers’ group affiliated with the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas was killed in Zamboanga del Norte.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:19:20 +0000
DAVAO CITY—Two leaders of militant groups left their base in Cagayan de Oro City for Bukidnon province on Monday to meet with a group of “lumad” (indigenous peoples) who sought their help in setting up a dialogue with the military. But Datu Jomorito Goaynon, regional chair of the lumad group Kalumbay, and Ireneo Udarbe, chair […]
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