Comments on: Azucarera

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Quezon: Que Sira, Sira? « Kapirasong Kritika — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:34:11 +0000

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By: Syncand

Syncand — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:38:12 +0000

Pure capitalism and exploitation at its best. As long as the system favors these land owners, agrarian reforms and talks will never be properly conducted. These workers are being spent to the bone and we are giving a blind eye to their struggles. Simply because of our fear to the power and wealth of these Cojuangcos….

By: Althea

Althea — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:03:53 +0000

Thank you so much for writing this.

I was in college during the Azucarera upsurge. And seeing some of my classmates whose fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters were badly hurt, bring a sense of apalling disgust towards those ‘comprador bourgeoisie’ (& to myself as well — for as much as I’d want to help, I can do no more than shelling out my pen’s ink in the university pub, or rather I chose not to do something much more tangible.)

Up to now, whenever I concoct the Azucarera stories to some of my peers, they literally laugh at the ‘nine-peso-&-fifty-cents’ payslip. It was, for them, an ‘urban legend’. A meer attempt to defame the ‘comprador bourgeoisie’ .

Whenever I watch the documentary film of that ill-fated November in Azucarera, I am amazed at how a group of unarmed & harmless sugar planters voiced out their rights — yet at the end, I am also astounded as how the ‘comprador bourgeoisie’ remained infinitely deaf to their pleas.

By: tina

tina — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:51:50 +0000

the last time i read about struggles like these was when i last leafed through a copy of kule. it’s only been several months, but it already feels like a lifetime has passed since then.

what’s on your mind after you’ve felt all this indignation and anger, and written it all down? what do you plan to do?