Women’s group shows there’s life after Luisita
By Fernando del Mundo
It is harvest time in the sugar plantations.
It is harvest time in the sugar plantations.
(Second of a series) It hasn’t been easy for peasant leader Jaime Tadeo. Tadeo remembers with a wry smile that he once asked then President Corazon Aquino for land for the farmers, but got himself instead a cell in the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City, which means tiny land in Filipino. [...]
(First of four parts) The few minutes she was allowed to talk to President Aquino in Malacañang’s stately Maharlika Hall on June 14 gave her a new lease on life. Dorita Vargas, 63, did not miss the chance to reveal how she raised her six children—all girls—after her husband abandoned her and she [...]
Farmers demanding the ouster of Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes have lifted a weeklong hunger strike following a dialogue with Cabinet officials over the weekend.
