“The growing dependence of the DOH on the role of PhilHealth for healthcare delivery manifests a very myopic approach to decades-old problems besetting the Philippine healthcare system.” – Network Opposed to Privatization
“If what the government has been saying is true, why am I applying again? Why is there a steady stream of Filipinos leaving the country to work abroad every day?” – OFW
Ni RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA Para kay Nelson Mandela Mangyari kayang manatiling tirik ang araw Mapigilan ang paglubog nito’t magpatuloy ang liwanag Umaaliwiw ang mga panalanging sukdulang taimtim Huwag tapusin itong araw, si Mandela’y atin pang kapiling Subalit siya’y pagod na’t inaakit na ng pahinga Ang magiting na mandirigma’y handa nang humimlay Ama ng kanyang bayan,…
“The military has been committing grave abuses against civilians through its peace and development operations under the Aquino government’s counter-insurgency operational plan Bayanihan.” – Pastor Sadrach Sabella, Karapatan-Socsksargends coordinator
“Aquino cannot dismiss torture victims as isolated cases, and not a government policy, because torture is resorted to all over the country as a component of its Oplan Bayanihan.” – Karapatan
“What is more revolting is the fact that some of the perpetrators, who have been identified and charged, have been promoted. And Gloria Arroyo was re-elected as congresswoman.” – Justice for the Morong 43
“We have gone to the courts. We have followed the government’s slow judicial process and still, we have not found our daughters.”
“The solid support showed by the church people, farmers and professionals shows the anti-mining sentiments of the people of Nueva Vizcaya.”
As the awarding of the modernization project of the Philippine Orthopedic Center to a private firm is fast approaching, health workers, patients, the urban poor, and church people are exploring different options to stop its implementation.
“The Aquino government has kept on trying to implement this fare hike but has failed to actually implement one. It knows how badly this will affect the public and how this will make the public really angry at the government.”
