[asia-apec 538] Young Agrarian Reform Advocates' - AS A PEASANT STRATEGY

[kmp at info.com.ph]

dear friends, advocates of peasant, rural workers and the struggle of the
landless and to KMP's [Peasant Movement of the Philippines] counterpart
peasant organizations in the different parts of the world.

this is to share with you [pls. read NNARAA - Youth statement on its 2nd
Generaal Assembly below] one of the approaches or strategies that KMP is
employing to broaden its support base for the struggle of the peasants for
land and for genuine land reform. 

surely, we will discuss more approaches and peasant strategies when we meet
and share during the PEASANT FORUM - Throwing Off the Yoke of Imperialist
Globaalization in November 11-12, KUAALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA as one of the
issue forum of the Asia-Pacific Peoples' Assembly's [APPA] - Confronting
Globalization, Reasserting Peoples'Rights in time with the 6th APEC world
leaders' meeting.

SO FILL UP YOUR REGISTRATIONS FORMS TO THE PEASANT FORUM AND TO THE APPA
[November 8-15]

See  you then!

PEASANT FORUM SECRETARIAT
c/o Mr. RAFAEL MARIANO, KMP 
#69 MAAYUSIN corner MALAMBING STS.
UP VILLAGE, DILIMAN, 1100, Q.C.
PHILIPPINES
TEL: 632 - 920/5668 / TEL/FAX: 632 - 435/3564
E-MAIL: KMP at INFO.COM.PH / PX.ISDA at SKYINET.NET
  
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Subject: Young Agrarian Reform Advocates' second general assembly

National Network of Agrarian Reform Advocates Youth Sector
NNARA-Youth

NEWS RELEASE
22 July 1998
Reference: Phoebe Mendoza, publicity officer
e-mail: px.isda at skyinet.net

        YOUTH RENEW VOWS TO CHAMPION PEASANT RIGHTS IN ASSEMBLY

STUDENT leaders from 13 schools in Manila reaffirmed their vows to help
peasants fight for genuine agrarian reform in the second general assembly of
the National Network for Agrarian Reform Advocates Youth Sector
(NNARA-Youth) last week.

The group's newly-elected chair Mary Ann Alejo of the College of Holy
Spirit told the crowd of two hundred delegates that the group hopes to
expand membership among the students in double the number of schools for
1998 in anticipation of intensifying social conflicts to be raised by
landless peasants under the Estrada administration.

NNARA-Youth had its beginnings in 1995 to provide an accessible venue for
students and teachers especializing in community work, for them to sustain
links with rural villages in a manner that would make academics more deeply
aware of the peasants' problems. By 1997, the increasing number of chapters
pushed for its first assembly. 

During its existence, NNARA-Youth developed into a movement of idealistic
activists whose commitment to helping the poor took them to march alongside
peasants during rallies and visit victims of agrarian injustices jailed or
killed while fighting for their farmlands.

The student council of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines
hosted the assembly at the school's Sta. Mesa campus. The other elected
officers are: Ma. Elena Urbano, vice-chair; Ma. Clara Ibarra,
secretary-general; Anna Espilimbergo, finance officer; and Phoebe Mendoza,
education and publicity officer. # # #