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Ex-DAR chiefs warn of bloodshed and poverty w/o CARP extension |
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 With reports from Willard Cheng,
ABS-CBN News, abs-cbnNEWS.com, and dzMM as of 12/16/2008 4:29 PM There will be poverty and bloodshed if the extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) is not approved, two former secretaries of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said Tuesday.
According to ex-DAR chief Horacio "Boy" Morales, failure to extend CARP would lead to greater poverty as families of peasants lose the land that helped send their children to school and bring food to the table. Read more here.
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2 former DAR execs back CARP extension |
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 By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines - Farmers, religious groups, and people's organizations pushing the House of Representatives to pass the extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) got a boost on Tuesday from two former agrarian reform secretaries who joined their call to keep the land law alive. Former agrarian reform secretaries Horacio "Boy" Morales and Hernani Braganza visited farmers camping out of the south gate of the Batasan Pambansa complex to express their solidarity. Read more here. |
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La Liga calls for peace in Mindanao |
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The La Liga Policy Institute (LLPI) yesterday urged for the immediate cessation of hostilities in Mindanao and called for the resumption of peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)."It is our firm belief that lasting peace in Mindanao can only be achieved if we as a nation recognize and uphold the rights and long standing struggle of our Muslim countrymen," the LLPI said in a statement. "La Liga believes that as long as there is violence and bloodshed in Mindanao, a holistic socio-political and economic development in Mindanao would never be achieved," it added. La Liga said that the economic and social costs of the war in Mindanao are staggering. It said that according to the Philippine Human Development Report in 2005, 91 percent of all provinces in the region have been affected by ideology-based armed conflicts during the 18-year period from 1986-2004. Read more. |
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QC stop of Mindanao peace caravan held |
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First posted 01:31:05 (Mla time) November 23, 2008
Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA, Philippines—Some 100 Christians and Muslims belonging to different organizations are on a 10-day peace caravan to call for an end to the armed conflict in Mindanao. Dubbed “Caravan for Peace and Solidarity,” the motorcade rolled out of Baguio City Thursday and plans to be in Cotabato City by Saturday. Yesterday, participants made a pit stop at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City to toll the peace bell and pray for an end to the hostilities pitting government troops against rogue elements of the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). “We support the call for humanitarian protection and assistance to Mindana-oans affected by the ongoing hostilities, particularly the women, children and marginalized groups,”
said Joey Navarrete of the La Liga Policy Institute, one of the participants, in a statement. Read more
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11/19/2008
Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA, Philippines—Filmmaker Paul Alexander Morales was on the verge of quitting. Then “Concerto” got an “A” grade from the Cinema Evaluation Board and “put wind in our sails again.” Morales, who trained as a dancer in theater and has choreographed for the movies (“Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros,” “Pisay,” “Bikini Open”), believes the “discipline of the performing arts” primed him well for indie filmmaking. He regards the accolades of “Concerto,” which opens in cinemas today, as both “a gift and an invitation to make more movies.” Read more. ***Paul Alexander Morales is the son of LLPI President Horacio "Boy" Morales*** |
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“No to Minda war,” a campaign for understanding |
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DAVAO CITY, November 17, 2008— While most of the citizenry are for peace, some of them are drowned with the rhetoric of war in settling the Mindanao problem once and for all. With that, civil and religious groups have made their call for peace bold and strong with deep emphasis on, “No to war” campaign, which highlights Duyog Mindanao, a solidarity campaign for the region. Duyog is a Cebuano term meaning solidarity and Duyog Mindanao is a convergence of various initiatives to address the present humanitarian crisis in the region and to call for the cessation of hostilities in Mindanao. Read more |
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Caravan to seek renewed peace talks between government and Moro rebels |
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BusinessWorldNovember 17, 2008 DAVAO CITY — Duyog Mindanao, a coalition for peace of over a dozen civil society groups, will hold a peace caravan to promote a continuing discussion on Mindanao issue, particularly the need for the government and Moro rebels to restore peace talks. The initiative comes at a time when the Arroyo administration pushes for local level consultations using civil society, specifically Church groups, as peace dialogue facilitators. Read more |
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Go organic, says agri dep’t |
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By Purple S. Romero, Abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak | 11/06/2008 6:14 PM The Department of Agriculture (DA) has launched the first phase of its Organic FIELDS Support Program (OFSP Phase I) which adopts a three-pronged strategy to steer the local agricultural industry to organic farming. Organic farming cuts the dependence on chemical pesticides and fertilizers as it uses agricultural waste, compost and crop rotation to increase soil productivity. In a memorandum of agreement with Go Organic! Movement, a campaign startedby local people’s organizations (PO) in August 2008, the DA allotted P20 million for the initial stage of OFSP which would be implemented in Albay, Bataan, Camarines Sur, Nueva Ecija, Oriental Mindoro and Pangasinan from November 2008-March 2009. Read more |
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