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                    [Title] => Hda. Luisita massacre: No justice after 10 years
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Tomorrow, Nov. 16, marks 10 years since the Hacienda Luisita Massacre happened at the controversial landed estate in Tarlac “owned” by the family of President Aquino.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1274937 [Title] => What should be done in Hacienda Luisita? [Summary] =>

In last week’s column, I promised to dwell in today’s piece on the issues raised by the Hacienda Luisita farmworkers concerning the Department of Agrarian Reform’s implementation of the Supreme Court’s final ruling on April 24, 2012. This involves the distribution of 4,915 hectares of the 6,453-hectare estate to 6,296 farmworker-beneficiaries.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1272677 [Title] => Hacienda Luisita: Quest for justice drags on [Summary] =>

This is the sixth piece I have written about the quest for land and social justice by the farmworkers at Hacienda Luisita, Inc. in Tarlac, owned by the family of President Aquino. It ought to be — but cannot be — the last.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 983151 [Title] => Farmers’ group hits gov’t plan to raffle off Luisita lands [Summary] =>

Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said the government’s plan to distribute Hacienda Luisita farmlands through raffle draw is “foolish” and “an insult” to the struggles of farmworkers.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 838289 [Title] => Luisita farmers interviewed anew [Summary] =>

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) conducted last Monday the second round of interviews with potential farmworker beneficiaries in Hacienda Luisita.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 828404 [Title] => Honduran seizures raise fear of wider conflicts [Summary] =>

As La Confianza stirs to life at daybreak, farmers ride bicycles or buses to lush green fields of African palm trees, where they harvest high-hanging fruit using poles tipped with hooked knives.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-16 06:12:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 813587 [Title] => Van with migrant workers flips in Florida; 3 die [Summary] =>

Authorities say a van carrying more than a dozen Haitian migrant farmworkers has flipped over on a central Florida highway, killing three.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-04 08:22:19 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 606545 [Title] => SC to mediate Luisita land dispute [Summary] =>

Continuing the hearings on the Hacienda Luisita case, the Supreme Court listened last Tuesday to the oral arguments presented by the solicitor-general and the farmworkers, both sides assailing the controversial stock distribution option under the agrarian reform program.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 604356 [Title] => An unending quest for social justice? [Summary] =>

As I listened for five hours last Wednesday to the oral arguments of the Hacienda Luisita lawyers, followed by sharp questioning by the Supreme Court justices probing into the controversial stock distribution option, my mind kept racing back to the long historic struggle of the Filipino peasants to own the lands they till.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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