Agrarian Reform, The Philippines and the Future
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Taruc, Luis
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1975-09-29
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
He was in prison until about 1967 when he was given a Presidential pardon, and from then until 1968 he worked closely with church-related organizations and mass movements. He lectured at universities, urging a general amnesty for the Huks. His activities from 1969 to 1974 included working with the Citizens' Council for a Free Constitutional Convention which resulted in mass rallies, and as a Consultant to the Department of Agrarian Reform.
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The Philippines is trying to use the Japanese agrarian form model as a route toward democracy - emancipation, abolition of feudal ownership, cooperatives, local governing councils, labor organizations - added to reforming public education and public health, with US help to move wealth out of the hands of the one percent. Taruc short-hands all this to: "Revolutionary in principle, evolutionary in implementation." US AID support by-passes political leadership, goes directly to local organizations. Under the constitutional authoritarianism of Marcos the only civil liberties denied have been those of the abusers, says Taruc. The Roman Catholic church functions as a national conscience. The challenge comes from connivance between the judges and the military working for the landowners. Philippine relations with US are strained over the bases: question of nuclear weapons ("wrong"), camp followers,
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