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They have been demanding a black and white assurance that their wages and benefits, tenure and working conditions under West, would remain, or improve, under Alorica.
Mary Jane is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on Tuesday, April 28.
“She tells her family not to feel sad and is buoying up their sprits.”
“The Aquino government just shows itself as anti-indigenous people and destroyer of the environment.”
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“I sincerely pray to to be saved from the death penalty and to be given the opportunity to bring up my children.”
“I should have noted every word and every promise they gave our family. All along, I really thought they were handling my sister’s case.”
“What is important now is that the Indonesia’s High Prosecutor himself said the filing of the petition for a second judicial review may or may not affect the carrying out of the death penalty. It was not immediately dismissed.”
In this brief discourse, I sketch an inventory of the U.S. imperial adventure in the Philippines as a background to the work of Carlos Bulosan, the first Filipino writer to gain canonical status, and the ordeal of Filipinos in the era of global capitalism.
“We commemorate the 31st Cordillera Day honoring the people’s martyrs celebrating victories and gearing for greater challenges for the defense of our land, life and resources.”
“This victory is a lesson to Sumifru and all capitalists that you cannot impose exploitative and unjust policies on your workers without facing resistance."
"It appears that even Justice Secretary Leila de Lima was ordered not to act on the complaints we filed against the Cojuangco-Aquinos.”
“We will never attain comfort under this government which has no compassion for the sufferings of the Filipino people”.
"The truth is that Aquino did not do anything for Mary Jane’s case.”
“Those who would reject it will continue the struggle. The tragedy here is we are repeating history.”
“The Aquino government wants to make the production of cheap labor even more systematic with the K+12.”
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective There seems to be no limits to the depths those who are selling the Filipino people’s sovereignty, identity, and soul would go. Economically, the Aquino government tried to push for amendments to the 1987 Constitution to...
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