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March for Genuine Agrarian Reform, International Conscientious Objectors Da
2008-05-14 18:45:00 Forty rural activists marched for about 15K yesterday to demand genuine agrarian reform in our country. They started from the Quezon City Memorial Circle to the House of Representatives Complex. Forty people. It may be a small number to some. In fact, it’s just the size of a class. But we can’t doubt the passion of… “The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.” — Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 - ), US economist, Nobel Prize laureate Today is International Conscientious Objectors’ Day. A conscientious objector is someone who refuses to bear arms or participate in military service, on the basis of religious or moral principles. Here’s a story about a weary soldier on a train… This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. —Psalm 34: 6 Click here and continue reading…
A Miserable Failure
2008-01-22 17:15:00 The occasion of the twenty-first anniversary of the ill-famed Mendiola Massacre compelled me to check at the state of the government’s agrarian reform program.
By: (Mis)readings
Agrarian reform still relevant
2007-09-15 07:52:00 Last week, organized peasant groups stormed the main building of the Department of Agrarian Reform. The setting was one of anger and desperation as protesting farmers and farm workers rushed to the office of DAR secretary Nasser Pangandaman in the 4th floor before they were violently dispersed. Unruly, rowdy, and disruptive are the words that... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
Agrarian Reform approval and regional strikes
2006-12-03 05:28:00 Yesterday 4 of the 9 departments of Bolivia held a regional strike, 2 were fully succesfull and 2 were only partially accepted by people in the regions. It is significant to say that one of the regions to strike was Cochabamba, where the current president and his political party started their political roads. The government now has proposed a dialogue with the regional civical movements, these have placed a deadline until Sunday to have a formal answer from the government. MAS has, as usual, basically ignored the social protest.It is very interesting to notice that this past week the agrarian reform was approved in the Bolivian senate. Why is it interesting? Because of how it was done, it was a cunning move. Two senators of the opposition voted in favor of the MAS law. Why? We will probably never oficially know, but I personally think (as many in the local media say) that these two senators were bribed into voting in favor of the law. This isn't anything new, and similar things hav...
By: Bolivia Today
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