AGE does not matter in protests.
When I was covering a rally this week, I saw this four-year-old child who joined her grandparents in their call to extend and reform the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
There were also other children ages 10 to15 years who gave out flyers to passers-by.
I approached one of the children. His name was Ryan Christian Banayo, a 10-year-old boy whose parents are farmers at the Hacienda Yulo in Canlubang, Calamba City. I asked the boy why he was there and what they were fighting for. The boy just gave me an innocent look, and smiled.
His mother, Nancy Banayo, explained later that she wanted the child to see that they were fighting for their rights.
From Waltermart Muñoz, the group of farmers from Southern Luzon ran along Edsa and ended in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform office, where they continued their protest. The children did not mind the heat, as they run alongside their parents.
Romeo Olaez, farmer-leader from Hacienda Yulo, said he grew up tilling the land in Canlubang.
“Kung ang mga lupa na yan ay hindi maipapamigay sa aming magsasaka, ano pa ang mangyayari sa ating bansa at sa mga darating pang mga panahon? [If those lands will not be given to us farmers, what will happen to the country in the coming future?],” Olaez asked.
Since 1993, the Hacienda Yulo farmers were displaced from tilling 7,000 hectares of land in Canlubang after the Department of Justice favored the Yulos, according to Evangeline Mendoza, Deputy National Coordinator of Ugnayan ng mga Nagsasariling Lokal na Samahan ng Mamamayan sa Kanayunan.
“Ilalaan daw ang lupa na golf course at residential area kaya nabigyan ng exemption order. Ngunit nanatili na ang lupa ay sakahan. Ang ginawa lang ng pamilya Yulo ay nilagyan ng bakod at pinagbawalan sila na magsaka. Kaya ngayon ang pitong libong ektarya ay naka-tiwangwang. [The land was supposed to be converted to a golf course and residential area. That’s why it was given an exemption order but it remains to be a farm land. The Yulo family however put up a fence and banned the farmers from tilling the land. Today, the 7,000 hectare-land remains unused],” explained Mendoza.
Mendoza said the country would not have any food shortage problems if government distributed land to the farmers.
“Kami ay nasa edad na ang pinaglalaban namin ngayon ay ‘yung aming mga anak at ‘yung mga susunod pa naming mga lahi. [We are now old but we are still fighting for the future of our children and the next generation.],” said Olaez.
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