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Beyond the Maguindanao Massacre
We
condemn in the strongest terms the Maguindanao massacre--the senseless slaughter
and mutilation of unarmed women, journalists, lawyers and even unborn babies was
so shocking that words fail to convey the outrage felt by those of us who were horrified
by the tragedy. ....read more>>>
PCGG is Now an Adversary Instead of the Protector of the Oppressed
PCGG Commissioner Ricardo Abcede boasted that the small farmers could no longer stop the conversion of the San
Miguel Corporation (SMC) common shares into preferred shares. ....read more>>>
Typhoon Ondoy and Pepeng: Threats to Food Security
The
dailies report that a whooping P5.5 billion worth of facilities and crops were
damaged by typhoon Ondoy. As this piece is being written, initial estimates put
the damage of Typhoon Pepeng at P550 million for a total of P6 billion. But the
damage could be much higher! ....read more>>>
Supreme Court Reverses Victory of the Small Coconut Farmers
This
is in reaction to the article dubbed, "PCGG approves conversion of government
shares in SMC" that appeared on October 07, 2009. ....read more>>>
Understanding the Women's Role
in Agriculture and Food Security
The food crisis last year prompted government to implement food rationing and feeding programs to help the poor cope. This
year, government beefed up the welfare budget, focusing in particular on conditional cash transfers and food subsidies especially for so-called families at risk as additional measures to mitigate hunger. ....read more>>>
An Agrarian Crisis in the Making
As the importance of agrarian reform and rural development is underscored, given the multiple crises in our midst, the country's agrarian reform program has been further undermined. In 2008, demonstrations, rallies, long marches abounded as pro-agrarian reform forces waged a campaign to introduce major reforms and have the funding of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) extended. ....read more>>>
Land Acquisition and Distribution
"This directive will trigger a crisis and create chaos in the countryside."
This was the statement of Centro Saka Inc. (CSI) after discovering that the
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has directed its personnel to defer all land acquisition and distribution (LAD) activities under compulsory acquisition (CA) regardless of the stage of implementation. ....read more>>>
State Abandonment of Agrarian Reform
The die is cast.
By forsaking agrarian reform and social
justice, Congress has exposed itself as the weakest democratic institution. Even
worse, the legislators killed the social justice program at a time when the world
is calling for the recognition of the rights of the landless rural poor. ....read more>>>
Farmers Condemn Landlord-Solons
for Blocking CARP Extension
Centro Saka, Inc. (CSI), a farmer-based, policy research non-government organization, today strongly condemned the landlord-legislators in the House of Representatives for blocking the passage of a bill extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). ....read more>>>
Landlord-Solons Obstructing Social Justice
House Speaker Prospero Nograles and his big landlord-cohorts should be held accountable if Congress fails to approve the passage of the CARP extension with reforms bill (or HB 4077) ....read more>>>
House AR Committee Supports CARP Extension with Reforms
On April 23, 2008, members of the House Committee on Agrarian Reform voted for the approval of the consolidated bill extending CARP with reforms. ....read more>>>
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Anxiously Waiting - Hundreds of farmers belonging to the Reform CARP Movement (RCM) held a vigil in front of the House of Representatives awaiting the outcome of the House Committee on Agrarian Reform deliberation on the CARP extension bills.....read more>>> |
CENTRO SAKA INC.ON THE MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN
The Centro Saka, together with the Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK), supports endeavors that seek to empower the rural women sector. ....read more>>>
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