The Commission on Appointments is a constitutional body which confirms or rejects certain political appointments made by the President of the Philippines. The current commission was created by the 1987 Constitution.
Anakpawis is a party-list in the Philippines. The party-list is the electoral wing of the radical trade union movement Kilusang Mayo Uno and the peasant group Kilusang Mangbubukid ng Pilipinas.
Ana Theresia "Risa" Navarro Hontiveros is a Filipino politician,community leader,and journalist serving as a Senator since 2016. She previously served as a party-list representative for Akbayan from 2004 to 2010.
The Mendiola massacre was an incident that took place on Mendiola Street,San Miguel,Manila,Philippines on January 22,1987,in which state security forces under President Corazon Aquino violently dispersed a farmers' march to Malacañang Palace in protest for the lack of government action on land reform.
The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program,more commonly known as CARP,is an agrarian reform law of the Philippines whose legal basis is the Republic Act No. 6657,otherwise known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL),signed under the administration of President Cory Aquino. It is the redistribution of private and public agricultural lands to help the beneficiaries survive as small independent farmers,regardless of the “tenurial”arrangement. Its goals are to provide landowners equality in terms of income and opportunities,empower land owner beneficiaries to have equitable land ownership,enhance agricultural production and productivity,provide employment to more agricultural workers,and put an end to conflicts regarding land ownership.
Hacienda Luisita is a 6,453-hectare sugar plantation located in the province of Tarlac. The hacienda spans 11 barangays in three towns of Tarlac. Most of the original farmworkers reside in 10 villages –Barangays Balete,Cutcut,Lourdes,Mapalacsiao,Asturias,and Bantog in Tarlac City;Barangay Motrico in La Paz town;and Barangays Parang,Mabilog and Pando in Concepcion town. The original estate includes the Central Azucarera de Tarlac (CAT) sugar mill and a golf course. The eleventh village is Barangay Central in Tarlac City which houses the CAT sugar mill,the St. Martin de Porres Hospital and the Our Lady of Lourdes Church. It features Luisita Golf and Country Club,a golf course and Las Haciendas de Luisita Subdivision,a 5-interconnected luxury subdivision.
Francis Ng Tolentino is a Filipino politician and lawyer. He has served as a Senator since 2019.
The secretary of agrarian reform is the head of the Department of Agrarian Reform and is a member of the president’s Cabinet.
Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan is a coalition of twelve party-lists in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It was founded on April 16,2009. The founding assembly was held at UP Theatre,Diliman,Quezon City.
For three days from March 30,2016,thousands of farmers and their supporters blockaded the Davao–Cotabato Road in Kidapawan,North Cotabato,in the Philippines. A day before prior to the road blockade,500 farmers protested in front of the National Food Authority Office in Kidapawan to air their grievances. The demonstration ended violently with at least three deaths on the side of the protesters and a total of 116 injured on both sides after the police dispersed the mass action.
Leoncio "Jun" Badilla Evasco Jr. is a Filipino politician who served as Secretary of the Cabinet from 2016 to 2018 and was the Presidential Adviser on Streamlining of Government Processes under the Duterte administration from 2020 to 2022. Before he was appointed as the Cabinet secretary,he was the Mayor of Maribojoc town in Bohol from 2007 to 2016. He was an ordained priest,being ordained in 1970,when he joined the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing,the New People's Army,in 1974.
Protests against Former President Rodrigo Duterte escalated on November 18,2016,following Duterte's support of the burial of the late president Ferdinand Marcos. These series of protests are mostly conducted by progressive groups and other opposing figures mainly due to the ongoing war on drugs,the declaration of martial law in Mindanao,and employment issues such as contractual terms being applied by companies and inflation which occurred due to the passage of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law. Other causes of the protests include the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country,the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020,and the shutdown and franchise denial of ABS-CBN.
The following is a timeline of protests against Rodrigo Duterte,the 16th President of the Philippines,and his policies. Issues were addressed in the protests including the war on drugs,employment issues,anti-terror law,and the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Sagay massacre occurred when a group of gunmen shot and killed nine sugarcane farmers,including four women and two children,while they were eating dinner in a makeshift tent on a farm in Sagay,Negros Occidental,on October 20,2018. The farmers were members of the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW),and the massacre may have been motivated by ongoing conflicts over land reform in the Philippines.
Jesus Marino "Rene" Gandiongco Espina was a Filipino lawyer,legislator,and politician. He served as Governor of the province of Cebu,Philippines (1963–1969) and Senator (1970–1973).
John Rualo Castriciones,also known by the nickname Bro. John,is a Filipino lawyer and writer who served as the Secretary of Agrarian Reform under the Duterte administration from 2017 to 2021. He was formerly Undersecretary for Operations of the Department of the Interior and Local Government from 2016 to 2017. A member of the Philippine Military Academy "Maharlika" class of 1984,Castriciones also served in various capacities under two previous administrations and as a law school professor at his alma mater Arellano University. His appointment to the Agrarian Reform portfolio was approved by the Commission on Appointments on May 29,2018,after being bypassed earlier by the commission on March 14,2018,and reappointed by Duterte on March 22,2018. Castriciones founded the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas together with the Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte-National Executive Coordinating Committee (MRRD-NECC).
Jaime "Ka Jimmy" Tadeo was a Filipino peasant and organic farming activist.
Elmer "Ka Bong" Calagui Labog is a trade union and labor activist from the Philippines who is the national chairperson of the militant group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU),the largest trade union in the country. He was also the vice-chairperson of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and the chairperson of International League of Peoples' Struggle in the Philippines. During the 2022 Philippine general election,he ran Independent under Makabayan for Senator.
