"To make democracy successful, economic power must be vested in the hands of the local people and the minimum requirements of life must be guaranteed to all. This is the only way to ensure the economic liberation of the people."
-- Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar
Photo Credit by Jimmy Domingo
54 farmers from Sumilao, walking for 60 days, from Bukidnon to Manila, covering 1,700 kilometers, to ask President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to distribute their ancestral lands to them under the agrarian reform program...
The Sumilao farmers have endured being away from home, being in uncertain places, with uncertain outcomes. They have nothing but the solidarity and goodness of people, and the hope that, in the end, truth and social justice will prevail.
Sign the online petition here:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sumilaofarmers/
Read more updates here:
A Position Paper on the Sumilao Farmers’ Struggle for Access to their Land
I support the Sumilao farmers! Let justice prevail. Give the land they own!
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