Isolating Noynoy
INSIDE CONGRESS |
charlie manalo |
Amid the questionable surveys by polling firms showing President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino enjoying a remarkable trust and satisfaction rating, thousands of peasants yesterday trooped to the streets all over the country in a series of protest actions to express their strong opposition to Noynoy’s pro-landlord administration.
In Southern Tagalog, around 2,000 peasants crashed the gates of Batangas Pier and symbolically padlocked its gates to show utter dismay to the continued land conversion which has been abused by bug landholders to escape agrarian reform.
In Manila, a few more thousand farmers marched to Mendiola and launched their own version of Occupy Wall Street by laying siege, for the next three days the historical bridge leading to Malacañang..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111020com5.html
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sa panahon ng mga dilaw, tampisaw sa malabuwayang galak ang mga hacendero de elit.
"According to Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano, under the Aquino administration, very few landed families in the country gained further control and stronghold of vast tracts of lands in many disputed haciendas as he noted that those landed families have acquired their lands either through force or circumventing the laws."
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