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Protests
Anti-demolition barricade in Angeles City. Residents of Sitio Balubad, Barangay Anunas, Angeles City, set up a barricade on October 16 to fight the Clarkhills Properties Corporation’s plan to demolish their homes. The demolition will hit more than 500 homes and 2,000 residents of the 72-hectare land that the company seized. Dumaguete City reclamation opposed. […]
In short
Ka Yuds and the armed struggle for genuine land reform
Comrade Yuds joined the New People’s Army just a year ago, but handling a gun was not new to him. Together with his clan, he already knew how to fight with arms to defend against landgrabbers. The conflict over the more than 100 hectares of land owned by Ka Yuds’ clan has been decades long. […]
Threat of destructive mining in Batangas
The Bluebird Merchant Ventures LTD (BMV), a British Virgin Islands-based company, is rushing processes and permits to begin the Batangas Gold Project in Lobo, Batangas. With its partner company Alpha-diggers Inc, it plans to extract 440,000 ounces or 12.43 tons of gold from 1,164 hectares covered by the mines. In June, the company was granted […]
Groups fete veteran labor organizer
National-democratic groups, led by organizations of workers and toiling people, launched a three-day fete for Jude Thaddeus Fernandez or Ka Jude, veteran organizer of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), at the University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman from October 10 to October 12. State forces killed Fernandez on September 29 at his home in Rizal. They […]