Jaime Tadeo
Jaime "Ka Jimmy" Tadeo (born March 28, 1938) is a Filipino peasant and organic farming activist.[1][2][3][4] Tadeo was formerly one of the leaders of the militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (the KMP, or Peasant Movement of the Philippines), formed amid the 1986 People Power Revolution in order to push for agrarian reform, until the peasant movement split into multiple groups in the 1990s.[1][5][6][2][7][8]
Shortly after the fall of the Marcos dictatorship, Tadeo was appointed to be part of the 1986 Constitutional Commission where he was the sole peasant representative.[2] In January 1987, Tadeo figured prominently in the demonstrations which led to the Mendiola massacre, a violent dispersal of peasants, workers, and students by state security forces which left 13 dead.[1][9] According to Tadeo, most of the 13 were part of a "composite team" purposely put to protect him from gunfire.[3]
In 1990, Tadeo was arrested and taken to the maximum security National Penitentiary at Muntinlupa, which supporters claim was due to his outspoken criticism of Corazon Aquino's executive order on agrarian reform.[4][2][10] Asked about his views on the president, he remarked that she "[was] running the country like her own hacienda," and retorted "I asked Cory Aquino for land for the peasants and she gave me 'Muntinlupa' (in Tagalog, 'smallest piece of land')."[2][4]
At present, Tadeo leads a small group of Bulakenyo and Central Luzon farmers through the organization Paragos-Pilipinas.[1][11][12]
Scholar James Putzel took the title of his book, A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines (1992) on the history of land reform in the Philippines and the United States' role in it, from Tadeo's remark that the Philippines is a "foreign dominated economy," captive to American interests.[2]
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- ^ a b c d Mayuga, Jonathan L. (2015-10-08). "When men wore 'bakya': 'Ka' Jimmy recalls how life was as a farmer in Bulacan when he was 25 | Jonathan L. Mayuga". BusinessMirror. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- ^ a b c d e f Putzel, James (1992). A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
- ^ a b "Jaime Tadeo." EDSA Stories. Focus on the Global South-Philippines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0CFAiP1zV8
- ^ a b c Mundo, Fernando del (2012-12-24). "He wanted land for farmers but got Muntinlupa instead". INQUIRER.net. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- ^ Bello, Walden; De Guzman, M. (2006). "Agrarian Reform: The Promise and the Reality". The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines. Zed Books.
- ^ Fuller, Ken (2015). The Lost Vision: The Philippine Left 1986-2010. University of the Philippines Press.
- ^ Magadia, J. (2003). "Agrarian Reform and a Strong Civil Society". State-Society Dynamics: Policy Making in a Restored Democracy. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. pp. 43–92.
- ^ "Agrarian Reform and the External Debt: Pressing Issues" (PDF). Social Science Information. 17. July–December 1989.
- ^ (27 Jan 1987). Marines open fire on peasant union march as it crosses Mendiola Bridge killing 12 and wounding 106. GS28018721. Associated Press. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xxZMjmf2KA
- ^ "The framing of Jaime Tadeo". Green Left. 2016-09-06. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- ^ "Geraldine Roman takes a snap with Jimmy Tadeo | Politiko Central Luzon". 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- ^ Purugganan, Joseph (2019-11-26). "Farmers demand government to repeal Rice Liberalization Law - Focus on the Global South". Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- 1938 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Filipino people
- 21st-century Filipino people
- Filipino activists