It is good to see this issue getting more publicity. Here is a letter of solidarity I circulated and sent out to the Filipino workers last month.

It is with great sadness that I have read the news of the massacre of
striking workers at the at the Hacienda Luisita. I condemn this
murder of 14 people, two of them children, and injury to hundreds.
Likewise I demand the immediate release of all who have been
imprisoned.

Today the U.S. government has troops in the Phillipines that are
supposedly there fighting against "terrorists" on the side of the
Filipino government. Yet this action of repression by the police
and Filipino armed forces lays clear that the true terrorist in the
Phillipines are the repressive forces of the government and the
capitalist interests they protect. U.S. support for the current set
of butchers in the Phillipines is only a continuation of their same
policies of support for the Marcos dictatorship.

The Worker's Democracy Party of the United States strongly condemns
these murders, calls for the immediate release of all strikers, and
demands that the U.S. government withdraw all troops from the
Phillipines.

Sincerely, Steven Argue
For the Worker's Democracy Party