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Topic: Luzon Farmers Party

	Philippines: Communal Irrigation Projects
		After several meetings to discuss jointly various issues, the farmers' suggestions were incorporated into the plan and the layout was presented to the IA general assembly for further modification and approval; thus, the NIA engineers and the farmers learned and innovated together.
		Rosa congratulated the farmers, saying she was confident that the success of the IA and the new experience the farmers had gained in their committees had prepared them for this moment.
		In the nonparticipatory systems, farmers abandoned 18 percent of the canals constructed with NIA assistance and judged an additional 20 percent of the new structures to be defective.
	www.worldbank.org /wbi/sourcebook/sb0215.htm (4615 words)

	Minor political parties in the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Next to the main political parties in the Philippines there are some minor parties represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines.
		The names of the parties are listed in at the website of the parliament, but often no further information is available.
		Most of these parties are elected through the party list system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anakpawis (108 words)

	Nacionalista Party .com
		Pro-independence parties were not permitted until Governor General Henry C. Ide lifted the ban in 1906, on the eve of the formation of the first Philippine Legislature, otherwise known as the Philippine Assembly.
		This led to the birth of the Laurel Wing and the Roy Wing of the Nacionalista Party, marking the fourth split in the ranks of the Party.
		The Nacionalista Party is the party of the New Filipino.
	www.nacionalistaparty.com /history.html (6860 words)

	Years Between 1912 and Today
		During 1890, the dissatisfaction of the farmers of the West and South took form in a great political movement, which was hastened by the work of the education and organization of the Farmers' Alliance and the very general debt and distress of the farmers.
		Farmers in Nebraska found prices for their produce more than doubled, and, at the same time, they were raising larger crops than they had ever grown before.
		In the mid-1970s, many Nebraska farmers borrowed heavily to expand their operations, but with the nationwide recession of the early 1980s, land values collapsed, and many farmers were unable to repay their loans in full.
	www.tcdne.org /YearsBetween1890andToday.htm (4892 words)

	The Story of Akbayan
		This narrative exercise is meant to unify the party towards a common discourse of the past, the present and the future, a more coherent framework for its electoral platform and mass movement calls and engagements and a shared ethos.
		The working people character of the party does not mean that it closes the door to compatriots belonging to the upper strata of society whose sense of humanity and patriotism rise above their station in life.
		Applying the principle that a party cannot fight for democracy without practicing democracy within, Akbayan establishes the rule that its positions on the Bangsa Moro question and the indigenous peoples question should be the outcome of a discourse and dialogue with the membership of these communities within the party.
	www.akbayan.org /papers.htm (3306 words)

	The Hukbalahap Insurrection: The Evolution of the Hukbalahap Movement
		Despite harsh repression taken against peasant farmers, the fighting continued and by the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, the Katipunan Revolt (usually credited with beginning in 1896) spread from Luzon to the islands of Panay and Cebu as Spanish troops withdrew for the defense of Manila.
		By 1941, 80 percent of Luzon's farmers were hopelessly indebted to their landlords with no expectations of a brighter future at all.
		Peasant farmers, many of whom were literate by this time thanks to American efforts to abolish mass illiteracy under Spanish rule, were demoralized by stagnant social conditions and the failure of the United States to grant Philippine independence after the war with Spain.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/coldwar/huk/ch1.htm (2402 words)

	WILL THE PHILIPPINES REVERT TO ITS NET SUGAR EXPORTER STATUS
		About 40,000 farmers and another 500,000 farm workers are currently involved in cane growing, making the sector one of the largest employer in the country.
		This farmer is assured a middle class life or he will abandon his farm for the city.
		His counterpart farmer in the Bicol or Cagayan provinces has hardly any financing, poor infrastructure, sells his product at a third of the price of his Japanese counterpart, and ekes out a living that assures him a peso based "D" market income for the rest of his life.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/X0513E/x0513e17.htm (6677 words)

	The Huks And The New People's Army: Comparing Two Postwar Filipino Insurgencies
		Citing the "death" of the PKP in 1957, the CPP felt that it was necessary to "re-establish" the Communist Party.
		Farmers were suffering econo- mically due to high rentals; decisions in the land courts often favored landlords; and the moneylenders charged peasants mounting interest on the originally small debts of their ancestors.25 There was corruption in the government and the arrogant behavior of the military caused fear and resentment.26 Things began to improve in 1950.
		The PKP-HUK Relationship Because of the significant interconnections between the party and military organizations, it is useful to examine the historical relationship between the PKP and the Huks.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1985/ARS.htm (17028 words)

	Liberal Party of the Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Representative Lorenzo R. Tañada III (Liberal Party, 4th District, Quezon Province) strongly disagreed with government economic officials when they claimed that the poor will not be that much affected by VAT as according to their press release, “cooking gas and commuting costs are perhaps the only significant commodities subject to the new VAT Law” More...
		Paglas, K4-Liberal Party administration candidate for governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), together with his running mate Hattah Dimaporo, laid a wreath at the foot of the monument of Rajah Sulayman, a Muslim mayor of Manila before the Spaniards came and spread Christianity in the city.
		The NCUB is the opposition party of Myanmar that is calling on the ruling military junta to restore democracy in the country.
	www.liberalparty.ph /Archives (6996 words)

	Philippine Presidents Past & Present - eMAILPINOY
		Roxas was elected president of the Commonwealth in 1946 as the nominee of the liberal wing of the Nacionalista Party (which became the Liberal Party), and, when independence was declared on July 4, he became the first president of the new republic.
		He was born in Vignan on Luzon, studied law,After obtaining a law degree from the University of the Philippines, near Manila, in 1915, Quirino practiced law until he was elected a member of the Philippine House of Representatives in 1919-25 and a senator in 1925-31.
		In June a statute outlawing the Communist Party was promulgated.
	www.emailpinoy.com /educational/philippinepresidents2.shtml (1219 words)

	Philippines - The Huk Rebellion
		Violence associated with the November 1949 presidential election, in which Quirino was reelected on the Liberal Party ticket, led many farmers to support the Huks, and after that date there were between 11,000 and 15,000 armed Huks.
		Although the core of the rebellion remained in Central Luzon, Huk regional committees also were established in the provinces of Southern Tagalog, in northern Luzon, in the Visayan Islands, and in Mindanao.
		Moreover, in the words of one guerrilla veteran, the movement was suffering from "battle fatigue." Lacking a hinterland, such as that which the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) provided for Viet Cong guerrillas or the liberated areas established by the Chinese Communists before 1949, the Huks were constantly on the run.
	countrystudies.us /philippines/25.htm (973 words)

	Shaping Globalization for Poverty Alleviation and Food Security -- High-Value Agriculture, by Christopher Delgado, ...
		In Guatemala and Honduras, where population densities in the vegetable-growing areas are higher and the political pressure of small farmers is keenly felt, foreign distributors have tended to contract with large numbers of small farmers.
		The fatteners are sold by the cooperative and the farmer is paid a fixed fee per animal.
		Provided that the farmer follows the rules, the risk of animal loss is borne by the investor.
	www.ifpri.org /2020/focus/focus08/focus08_06.htm (1561 words)

	History of the Philippines
		Political parties were organized, and, although open advocacy of independence had been banned during the insurgency years, criticism of government policies in the local newspapers was tolerated.
		Although the party boasted a membership of 200,000 by May 1901, its proposal to make the islands a state of the United States had limited appeal, both in the islands and in the United States, and the party was widely regarded as being opportunistic.
		The appearance of the Nacionalista Party in 1907 marked the emergence of the party system, although the party was without an effective rival from 1916 for most of the period until the emergence of the Liberal Party in 1946.
	www.delapaz-ewf.org /History.htm (16399 words)

	PHILIPPINES: The unraveling of Gloria : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Earlier this year seven farmers were gunned down by ‘the forces of law and order’ on Hacienda Luisita and dozens more wounded when the men picketed the sugar mill demanding fairer wages and an end to the scam of awarding them worthless shares in the mill in lieu of other social benefits.
		The General was moved in September to central Luzon, a consistent hotbed of disgruntled farmers, militant activists and the shady New Peoples Army, a communist-inspired guerrilla organization with deep roots in the historic grievances of rural workers.
		Among the last eight victims of the dissident clean-up in Central Luzon in November was the 27-year old pregnant student leader of the Luzon University.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/12/1722729.php (1163 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Aguinaldo had meanwhile established a capital at the Luzon city of Malolos, and in September his government convened a constituent assembly to draft a constitution.
		These politicians belonged to the Nationalist Party, which dominated Philippine politics from its founding in 1907 until the emergence of the Liberal Party after World War II ended in 1945.
		Aquino won a vote of confidence in the May 1987 legislative elections when parties allied with her Lagas ng Bayan (People’s Power Movement, an opposition party founded in 1978 by Benigno Aquino) won a majority of seats in both houses.
	www.philippineembassy-usa.org /about/history.htm (7000 words)

	Manila Standard & ABS-CBN (1) - May, 1998
		In Luzon south of Manila, where Legarda and Cayetano share No. 1, Lagman comes in as No. 9, displacing Guingona.
		In the party-list system being introduced for the first time, the minimum criterion for obtaining a seat, as set by law, is 2 percent of the total votes cast for the party-list (not the total voting turnout, as I mistakenly said in a previous survey report).
		Parties or groups meeting the 2-percent rule will receive seats in the House of Representatives in proportion to their share in the total party-list votes, subject to another rule that 3 is the maximum number of seats that any group can have.
	www.sws.org.ph /ms2-may.htm (1039 words)

	Philippines: The Killing Fields of Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The 'Palo Massacre' of the members of the San Agustin Farmers Beneficiaries Cooperative and Alang-Alang Small Farmers Association was at first presented by the armed forces as a military encounter with the New Peoples Army and a few homemade weapons were planted on the victims.
		The victims were killed by death squads controlled by the military with the aim of protecting the power of the large landowners and land grabbers, timber and mining barons and company bosses with the connivance of the regime.
		When Palparan was assigned to Central Luzon in September 2005, the number of political assassinations in that region alone jumped to 52 in four months.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/032006D.shtml (3257 words)

	PHILIPPINES: Soldiers kill nine farmers in Leyte, Visayas
		The farmers have fought to claim the right to own the piece of land under the land reform programme.
		This is yet another incident of violence against farmers in Philippines who are fighting for land reform and land distribution under the Carp.
		I am aware that this is yet another incident of violence against farmers in Philippines fighting for land reform.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2005/1359?print=yes (1105 words)

	(SWS) The Social Climate
		The farmers from Sumilao, Bukidnon, of hunger-strike fame, are encamped in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform again.
		Here is a case where, of all institutions, it is the highest office in the judicial branch of the government which is hindering the executive branch in its task of achieving social justice.
		Since it is so obvious that the Second Division's decision does injury to the Mapalad farmers, it follows that the Second Division contradicts itself by refusing even to recognize their interest in the case.
	www.sws.org.ph /may98-2.htm (3963 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > A gathering of farmers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		IT is quite easy to explain why we, farmers (the Luzon-based), tend to gather during the month of October.
		More than knowing the mechanics of modern political campaigns, more than knowing the craft of polling and surveys and focus groups, we should have the fighting heart first, the deep commitment to our cause, she added.
		The agrarian unrest that nearly seized state power in the fifties had much of is mass base in the farming towns that stretched between Santa Rosa in Nueva Ecija to Santa Rosa in Laguna.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/nov/06/yehey/opinion/20051106opi3.html (696 words)

	Resources- Culture, Music, and History in the Philippines
		Only in the mountains of northern Luzon, where elaborate rice terraces (the famed Banaue Rice Terraces>) were built in the early centuries of the Christian era, were livelihood and social organization linked to a fixed territory.
		Immigration of Christian settlers from Luzon and the Visayan Islands to the relatively unsettled regions of Mindanao was encouraged, and the new arrivals began supplanting the Moros in their own homeland.
		The percentage of farmers under share tenancy doubled between 1900 and 1935; and the frustration of the tentants erupted into three small rebellions in central Luzon during the 1920s and 1930s.
	www.anthonians.org /res-cult.html (8194 words)

	Leftist group top choice among party lists: survey - Mar. 12, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		THE LEFT-wing Bayan Muna (Nation First) topped the latest Pulse Asia survey of party list contenders for the May elections, even as a majority of those surveyed said they were not aware of the party list system, the research group said Friday.
		Rounding up the top 10 were the Luzon Farmers' party or Butil (Grain) with 1.8 percent, Aksyon Sambayanan (Action of One Nation) with 1.7 percent, and the Citizen's Battle Against Corruption (Cibac), Gabriela Women's party, and the People's Movement Against Poverty (PMAP) all with 1.3 percent.
		Awareness of party list groups was highest in urban areas such as Metro Manila and in the upper to middle-class economic brackets.
	www.inq7.net /brk/2004/mar/12/brkpol_13-1.htm (324 words)

	the PDSP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The PDSP is a nationwide political party drawn from all classes and sectors of Philippine society, but especially from the workers, small farmers, small fisherfolk, and progressive elements among professionals and persons in business.
		The latter is a worldwide association represented in one hundred and five countries by some one hundred and twenty six parties that share aims and aspirations like that of the PDSP, for their respective countries and for humankind.
		The PDSP and its societal model of social democracy (sanlipunang demokrasya) are needed so that the people of the Philippines can put an end to the widespread poverty, malnutrition, poor health, lack of housing, lack of quality education, and lack of gainful and decent employment that burden the majority of the people.
	members.tripod.com /~chapelnet/pdsp.htm (1203 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > A gathering of farmers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The farmer, prey to fickle and brutal weather shifts and equally fickle farm prices, is essentially a worrier.
		The first phase of Thursday’s gathering was spent listening to two young campaign strategists, both intense and articulate, who gave us an accurate analysis on what we missed and where we failed.
		The agrarian unrest that nearly seized state power in the fifties had much of its mass base in the farming towns that stretched between Santa Rosa in Nueva Ecija to Santa Rosa in Laguna.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/oct/16/yehey/opinion/20051016opi3.html (707 words)

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		Local livestock farmers have raised animal health concerns, particularly foot and mouth disease (FMD), relative to the continued entry of buffalo meat from India, which is not FMD-free.
		Outbreaks of FMD still occur in the Luzon and Visayas regions and disease control is a major problem of the local livestock sector.
		He has likewise expressed his intention of providing local farmers with government support to enhance their competitiveness in a liberalized trade environment, and part of that support includes keeping tariff rates for major local commodities at current levels.
	www.fas.usda.gov /gainfiles/200309/145986121.doc (2892 words)

	Asia Society: Publications - The Philippines at the Crossroads
		His own political party, the Lakas-National Union of Christian Democrats (Lakas-NUCD) won only 41 of 206 seats in the 1992 elections, but through wholesale switching of parties claimed 112 seats by mid- 1993; the Rainbow Coalition as a whole came to comprise nearly three-quarters of the House.
		In the absence of effective political parties organized around some basic programmatic agenda, the passage of legislation requires enormous expenditure of effort and resources on individual legislators.
		LDP politicians (led by Angara) have formally broken their bond with Lakas in order to intensify preparations for 1998, although many of the party's members were loathe to deprive themselves of the patronage and other benefits that the coalition provided.
	www.asiasociety.org /publications/au_philippines.html (8589 words)

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