Hundreds of farmers from Southern Tagalog and Central Luzon marched to Mendiola, Manila on October 21. They demanded genuine land reform, a ₱15,000-subsidy and justice for victims of human rights violations. They also called for the repeal of the Rice Tariffication Law.
Similar protest actions were mounted in Bacolod City in Negros, Iloilo City, Naga City in Bicol and in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Central Visayas in Cebu City.
On October 29, national minorities and progressive groups protested in front of the headquarters of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to mark the 24th anniversary of the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act of 1997 (IPRA). They demanded the junking of the said law and the dismantling of the NCIP. They said that these only serve as instruments used by the reactionary state to facilitate massive grabbing of ancestral lands and deny them their right to self-determination.
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