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PhilippinesA militant peasant group described as a sham the final master list of farmers and farm workers who stand to receive land from Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac that was released by the Department of Agrarian Reform on Wednesday. The Kilusang
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PhilippinesThe Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) on Saturday defended farm workers behind the burning of 200 hectares of sugarcane on Hacienda Luisita last week, calling this an act to assert ownership of the land that has been denied to
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PhilippinesNot all of the 6,296 farm workers given shares of stock instead of land in Hacienda Luisita in 1989 made it to the list of recipients of land ordered distributed by the Supreme Court in November 2011, Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de
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By Gerry Albert Corpuz, Gloria Madonna Velarde and Jay Cuesta Tarlac City, PHILIPPINES- Hacienda Luisita based farm worker groups representing the original 6,296 farm worker beneficiaries on Wednesday announced their
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By Gloria Madonna Velarde, Jay Cuesta, Tanya Fantasia Mendoza and Livin LaVida Luna MANILA, Philippines- Hacienda Luisita based groups on Wednesday staged a 28-vehicle caravan from Manila to the site
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by Gerry Albert Corpuz Manila, Philippines- Beware the Greeks bearing gifts. Sixty leaders of the Hacienda Luisita based groups Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA), the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid
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by Gloria Madonna Velarde, Gerry Albert Corpuz and LividLavida Luna MANILA, Philippines-An activist lawmaker from the Philippine parliament urged farm workers of Hacienda Luisita to boycott the referendum called
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By Gerry Albert Corpuz, Roy Morilla and LivinLaVida Luna MANILA, Philippines-The highest court in the land agreed to defer its decision on the controversial land case involving the vast sugar estate controlled by the family of the
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By Gerry Albert Corpuz and Jay Cuesta in Manila, and Morris Manotoc and Gloria Madonna Velarde in Tarlac City MANILA, Philippines- Hacienda Luisita farm workers today declared collective readiness to take over
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By Himala dela Cuesta, Gerry Albert Corpuz and Gloria Madonna Velarde MANILA, Philippines- The deferment of the Supreme Court decision two days ago on the controversial Hacienda Luisita case remains a
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