T.R.O. ON "HACIENDA LUISITA"

BREAKING NEWS: PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT, HEADED BY CHIEF JUSTICE CORONA, WILL BE ASKED TO LIFT T.R.O. ON "HACIENDA LUISITA AND MASSACRE"..Lift TRO Re: Hacienda Luisita We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with the United Luisita Workers' Union (ULWU), the Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA), the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pil...ipinas (KMP), and the Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid ng Gitang Luzon (AMGL) in appealing to the Honorable Chief Justice [Corona]and to the other members of the Supreme Court of the Philippines to lift the temporary restraining order (TRO) it issued in June 2006 upon the petition of the Cojuangco family that prevented the government from distributing the 6,000-hectare Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac.

We declare that in December 2005, Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman and the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC) issued an order revoking the stock distribution option (SDO) agreement between Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) and the farm workers.

The same directive ordered that the property be parceled out among the workers.

Therefore, we the undersigned, respectfully appeal to our justices' sense of truth, justice, and accountability to allow the government to distribute the Luisita land to the farmworker-beneficiaries.

Justice delayed is Justice denied.