Walking from Bukidnon to Malacañang; the Sumilao Farmers' Protest

[omad]

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update:

Sumilao farmers going back home victorious

[godsaint]

They were given their lands back kay grabe na gyud ang krisis sa bugas.Basin nakahunahuna na ang gobyerno kung unsa ka importante ang mga farmers.

[giddyboy]

now kinsa man toh ga-ingon nga mapadung ra sa wala ang peaceful protest sa Sumilao farmers? natuk-an mo noh?

dili lage ta mohawa sa sinehan kng wala pa mahuman ang salida ky ga usik2x ra mo sa ticket. abi nato mamatay ra lage ang bida pero pwerteng layoa ra diay sa tinuod. layo ra kau sa ending.

[godsaint]

Thanks to San Miguel Corporation for giving land settlement to the Sumilao Farmers.

[giddyboy]

we should also thank Cardinal Rosales...



STATE OF GIFTEDNESS. The 166 Sumilao farmers are most grateful to the settlement’s principal broker, Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, to whom the issue is not only pastoral but intensely personal as he personally knows the farmers from the time he served as Bukidnon’s bishop 20 years ago. After the signing rites at the San Carlos Seminary in Guadalupe, Makati, one of the farmers hugs Rosales in tears. REM ZAMORA

[mOnOzErO]

This is great news! Thank GOD!

[cellularis]

i think mura ang half raman siguro ang ila nakuha sa total lot area sa san miguel??

[aya_diwata]

This is because of the failure in implementing of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CArP) During Cory Aquinos' time.Farmers were given the land title but still the hacenderos are holding the original copy.Meaning pakitang tao lang sa gobyerno.I grew up in Negros and Ive seen lives of thse farmers.They were force to work in sugarcane plantation with just 50 pesos wage a day because of poverty.Imagine if 50 pesos can feed the entire family?I joined in the Sumilao Farmers protest and I symphatized with their cause even if it is almost impossible for them to have wht they wanted.A piece of land just for a simple living.A piece of land not even enough to send their children to school.

If they received 50pesos.. Hacienda Luisita farm workers received P 9.25 - you can't even buy a bottle of coke with that. That inhumane. To think.. Hacienda Luisita is owned by the Cojuangcos and CARP is during Aquino's time. The farmers would say.. "in this country, there never was an agrarian reform"


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update:

Sumilao farmers going back home victorious

it's good that the people's caravan was productive but in this country with the 75% of manpower comprised by farmers, there are still more victims of the semi-feudal system