Our leaders have abandoned the peasantry–and are killing agrarian reform

YESTERDAY, some 500 peasants from key farming areas in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao converged at the Department of Agrarian Reform central office in Quezon City to kick off a 17-day peasants’ march for the completion and overhaul of the CARP. The demonstration will end on June 10, 2015, the 27th anniversary of the agrarian reform program.

The demonstration for CARP and against the “CARP killers” started with Holy Mass officiated by Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo at the farmers’ campsite outside the DAR Central Office. Only after Mass did the farmers’ torch parade at the Quezon Memorial Circle begin.