I will only stop (being an activist) when I am already dead.” – Nanay Mameng
Nanay Mameng celebrates 86th birthday
Month: February 2014
‘Fight vs cybercrime law not over’ — netizens
“Libel in itself has been abused for so many years to harass and malign journalists. What’s stopping cunning individuals from exploiting the new online libel provision? I see none.” – Kabataan Partylist Rep. Terry Ridon
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By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
DENR urged to remove no-build zone markers in Eastern Visayas
“The movement against no-build zone, no-dwell zone policy will spread like wildfire. The people in the coastal communities will continue to expose and oppose this highly unacceptable adventure of the government to deny our fisherfolk the rights to livelihood and decent communities.”
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Yolanda survivors initially barred from submitting petition to Malacañang
“Why is it that President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III could personally welcome (there) an accused person like Janet Lim Napoles, but not the representatives of Yolanda victims who only tried to bring a petition signed by 17,585 survivors of Yolanda?”
Philippines joins One Billion Rising for Justice
The slideshow features One Billion Rising for Justice activities in Manila, Baguio City, Bacolod City, Talisay City and Davao City last Feb. 14, 2014. Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea and Anne Marxze D. Umil in Manila, Noel Godinez of Northern Dispatch in Baguio, Owen Segovia Bayog in Bacolod and Talisay City, Juan Cejar and John…
After Typhoon Haiyan, survivors decry Aquino’s ‘profit driven reconstruction program’
“The Aquino government should have asked what the survivors feel, what is their way of life, what they really need.”
100 days post-Yolanda: Survivors ask Aquino to release aid, direct rehab to people & livelihood
“The Aquino government had enough time in the past three months to attend to the peoples’ basic needs. The fact that the people of Eastern Visayas are still demanding for food, livelihood, housing and social services is a testament to the Aquino government’s criminal negligence.”
‘We did not surrender, but taking up arms for long was destructive’ -MILF
For the MILF peace panel, the signing of the annex to the peace agreement was a matter of sacrificing for peace.
One billion rise for justice
“The three issues of injustices namely, Aquino’s criminal neglect of victims of calamities, his neo-liberal policies that result in high prices of basic goods and utilities, and government’s unabated corruption, served to further push women and their families deeper into the quagmire of poverty,” said Joms Salvador, secretary general of Gabriela.