Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)

Peasant Movement of the Philippines

• Description. The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is a democratic and militant movement of landless peasants, small farmers, farm workers, rural youth, and peasant women.
• Members. The KMP leads 1.3 million rural people with 65 provincial chapters and 15 regional chapters nationwide.
• Mission. The KMP unites with all oppressed and exploited classes, and fight for the interests and aspirations of the entire Filipino people. KMP continues to consolidate and defend its gains and victories while advancing the peasant struggle against class exploitation and national oppression.
• Vision. The KMP seeks to achieve:

o   A genuine agrarian reform program and national industrialization as the foundation for over-all economic development;

o   A sovereign nation free from foreign domination and control, and defends the people's civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights;

o   A comprehensive and pro-people social program that provides basic social and public services;

o   A genuine aquatic reform program that upholds the rights of small fisherfolk;

o   Promotion of peasant women rights and welfare that eradicates all forms of discrimination, exploitation and oppression against women and children;

o   Respect for the right to ancestral lands and self-determination of indigenous peoples;

o   Protection of the rights to agricultural workers for fair and living wages, and safe and good working conditions;

o   A nationalist, mass-oriented, scientific culture;

o   Science and technology for the people that serves a national economic program and promotes sustainable agriculture and environmental protection; and

o   Solidarity and support to the struggles of the peasantry and the people of the world against imperialism.

• Location. The KMP is located at 25-B Matiyaga Street, Barangay Central, Quezon City, Philippines
• Contact Number. (632) 4352383
• Email Address. kmp@kilusangmagbubukid.org
• Website. http://www.kilusangmagbubukid.org/

 

Source:

http://www.kilusangmagbubukid.org/kilusang-magbubukid-ng-pilipinas-peasant-movement-philippines.