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Peasants demand justice for victims of Fort Magsaysay massacre

PEASANT groups Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Alyansang Magbubukid ng Gitnang Luzon (AMGL) and human rights organization Karapatan condemned the killing of four peasants inside the Fort Magsaysay Military Reservation (FMMR) in Barangay San Isidro, Laur, Nueva Ecija last September 3.

According to KMP, the farmers were taking part in a land cultivation activity inside the reservation Saturday morning when a helicopter landed and delivered rifles near their area.

For more details, visit this news report. Read more

Appointed DAR secretary Mariano sings for land distribution

President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s appointed Department of Agrarian Reform secretary Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano sings Asin’s “Gising na Kaibigan” at the 15th anniversary celebration of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS)-Philippines Chapter.

Unknown to people outside of the progressive movement, Mariano loves to sing progressive songs and play the guitar.   Read more

EDSA 30th – people’s rage

On the 30th anniversary of the EDSA People Power, demonstrators led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) and affiliates of the Philippines chapter of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS-Phils) broke through layers of police and army phalanx to assert national freedom and democracy and say no to another Marcos.

Heneral Luna matters

Commemorating the Philippine-American War on February 4, 2016, protesters against the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) marched to the US embassy in Manila carrying cut-outs of Heneral Luna as portrayed in a much-acclaimed historical film. The groups are affiliated with the Philippines chapter of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS-Phils) and the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN).

LARAWAN: Junk Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)

 

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US Embassy, Manila

February 4, 2016

 

Despite rains, farmers protest vs WTO

Braving rains from tropical storm Nona (Melor) in the Philippines, farmers pushed through with their protest last December 15 against the 10th Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Nairobi, Kenya. Citing an almost 300 per cent increase in local rice prices since 1995 when the Philippines joined the WTO, the farmers called on the Philippine government to junk its membership in the trade organization.

The KMP or Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Peasant Movement of the Philippines), an affiliate of the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS).

Human rights raps in the Philippines

Human Rights Day 2015 in the Philippines with street protests on violations under a neocolonial regime. Speakers include torture victim Fr. Ben Alforque and KARAPATAN secretary-general Tinay Palabay. The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) also demanded the release of Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar and all political prisoners.

KMP @ 30

PAGBATI SA IKA-30 ANIBERSARYO NG KILUSANG MAGBUBUKOD NG PILIPINAS
Hulyo 25, 2015
Rey Claro Casambre
Executive Director
Philippine Peace Center

Sa ngalan ng Philippine Peace Center, malugod kong binabati ang kasapian at pamunuan ng Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) sa Ika-30 Anibersaryo ng pagkakatatag nito.

Nakikiisa kami sa sambayanang Pilipino sa pagbati sa inyo sa lahat ng tagumpay na inyong natamo sa pangunguna sa mga hayag na pakikibaka ng masang magsasaka at manggagawang bukid laban sa pyudal at malapyudal na pang-aapi at pagsasamantala sa kamay ng mga lokal at dayuhang naghaharing uri.

Nagiging tumpak at mabisa ang pangunguna ninyo sa mga pakikibakang ito dahil mahigpit ninyo itong iniuugnay sa pakikibaka ng buong sambayanang Pilipino para sa pambansang pagpapalaya, tunay na demokrasya at katarungang panlipunan. Sa gayon ay nagiging makabuluhan at mahalaga ang ambag ninyo sa pagpupukaw, pag-organisa at pagpapakilos ng masang magsasaka bilang pangunahing pwersa ng pambansa-demokratikong rebolusyon.

Taas-kamao kaming nagpupugay sa lahat ng kasapi ng KMP at mga magsasakang martir na nag-alay ng pinakamataas na sakripisyo para sa mga pakikibakang ito.

Mahigpit na nasasapol ng KMP ang kahalagahan ng paggamit sa lahat ng larangan at pamamaraan ng hayag na pakikibaka para sa pagsulong ng demokratiko at pambansang interes ng sambayanang Pilipino. Kami sa PPC ay mapalad at natutuwang makasama ang KMP sa pagtutulak ng negosasyong pangkapayapaan para maihayag ang tunay na kalagayan at mga karaingan ng masang anakpawis at ipaglaban ang kanilang mga karapatan at kagalingan. Aktibong lumahok ang KMP sa pagtutulak na mabuo at malagdaan ang Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) sa pagitan ng Gobyerno ng Republika ng Pilipinas (GRP) at ng National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). At matamang sumusubaybay at umaambag ang KMP sa pagbubuo ng mga panukala para sa Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms, kung saan ang Repormang Agraryo at ang karapatan at kagalingan ng mga magbubukid ay malalaki at mayor na mga usapin.

Puspusan at mapanlikhang nagagamit ng KMP ang reaksyunaryong Kongreso bilang isang plataporma sa pagtataguyod sa makauring interes ng masang magbubukid sa pamamagitan ng Anakpawis Party List at mga kaalyado nitong partido sa Blokeng Makabayan. Matingkad na halimbawa nito ang paglalantad sa CARP at CARPER at ang pagtataguyod ng Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill o GARB. Hindi rin nagpapabaya ang KMP sa pagtatanggol at pagtataguyod sa mga karapatang sibil, pulitikal at pang-ekonomya sa reaksyunaryong mga Korte, sa pagsasampa ng mga kaso laban sa mga hacendero at malalaking panginoong maylupa, o sa pagtatanggol sa mga magsasakang sinasampahan ng mga gawa-gawang kaso.

Malinaw sa KMP ang kahalagahan ng pandaigdigang pagkakaisa ng mga masang anakpawis. Aktibo itong lumalahok sa mga solidarity conferences at sa pagbubuo at pagpapalakas ng mga pormasyong anti-imperyalista tulad ng Asian Peasant Coalition at International League of People’s Struggle.

Sa kagyat, malaki ang nagagampanang papel, at malaki pa ang magagawa ng KMP sa puspusang paglalantad at paghihiwalay sa rehimeng US-Aquino, laluna dahil sa matingkad na katangiang cacique at malaking panginoong maylupa ni Benigo Simeon Aquino III, at dahil higit pa niyang isinusulong ang mga kagustuhan ng imperyalistang US sa pandarambong sa ekonomya at sa paggamit sa buong Pilipinas bilang malaking baseng militar para konsolidahin ang hegemoniya sa Asia-Pacific at kubkubin ang Tsina.

Malalaking hamon ang sasalubungin at mabibigat na tungkulin ang babalikatin ng KMP sa mga darating na buwan kaugnay ng APEC summit at pambansang eleksyon, at sa konteksto ng kampanya para patalsikin ang rehimeng US-Aquino at wakasan ang bulok at imbing paghahari nito. Buo ang tiwala naming sa PPC na matagumpay na matutugunan ng KMP ang mga hamon at tungkuling ito.

Mabuhay ang Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas!
Mabuhay ang masang magsasaka!
Mabuhay ang sambayanang Pilipino!
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BAYAN to Pnoy: Hands Off Activists and Human Rights Defenders

Press Statement
July 18, 2015

The increased and widespread harassment and intimidation of government critics and oppositionists in the run-up to Pres. Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) later this month is a dangerous sign that the Aquino government is adopting the tactics of notorious human rights violator Jovito Palparan – with the blessings of the Arroyo administration – in trying to quell anti-government protests.

Within the past three weeks, BAYAN has received alarming reports of soldiers, police and other state agents hounding union leaders and community organizers, human rights defenders and social activists, as well as progressive professionals, in their homes, workplaces and even in public, such as restaurants and on the street. They tell their targets that their activities are being monitored or that they are already identified as members of the CPP/NPA. They make veiled threats of something bad happening if their targets do not stop their social involvements. Invariably, these state agents leave a name and number to contact if and when their targets are ready to “cooperate”.

The victims of this latest spate of harassment and intimidation come from as far south as General Santos City to as far north as Cagayan Valley. Particularly targeted are activists and leaders in BAYAN-affiliated public sector unions, trade unions, youth and student groups, health workers and professionals, urban poor communities and progressive party list groups.

Even church workers and human rights defenders are not spared, like 15 colleagues in SocSarGen and Davao who were recently slapped with trumped-up charges of kidnapping and serious illegal detention for helping Ata Manobo and Balaan communities flee their militarized areas.

Clearly the objective of this intense harassment from state agents is to intimidate their victims into silence and inaction at a time when Aquino is salvaging whatever is left of his supposed “tuwid-na-daan” legacy, desperately looking for people to drag on his bumpy, crooked path to nowhere.

This is exactly the same kind of vilification and harassment tactics that then Gen. Palparan utilized wherever he was assigned, along with a spike in extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of people suspected to be CPP/NPA leaders, members and even just sympathizers.

Pres. Aquino and his military and police forces are so desperate to silence his critics and derail the nationwide SONA protests that they have decided to do a Palparan.

Worse, the recent appointment of generals in the Palparan mold, with bloody human rights track records to their name, to head the AFP and the Philippine Army bodes a renewed spate of illegal arrests, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.

BAYAN and the Filipino people will not be cowed by this latest fascist rampage under the counterinsurgency program, OPLAN Bayanihan of the Aquino regime. The upcoming SONA protests will be the biggest and most damning ever. We shall continue speaking out against the evils of the current regime presiding over a rotten, dying system and empower our people to struggle for a new and better government and society.###