“Despite the fear that the state wants to instill on us, they just proved that protesting against corruption is just and the right thing to do,” Raven Racelis said.
Recalling the difficulties that she had to go through and the patience she had to muster with the slow judicial process in the Philippines, especially when state forces are involved, Glenda could only hope for a right and just decision.
Sumailalim din sa matinding pagbusisi ang OVP matapos nitong gastusin ang P125 milyong confidential funds sa loob lamang ng 11 araw noong 2022. Ang pondong ito ay ipinasa sa tanggapan ni VP Duterte mismo mula sa opisina ni Marcos.
“While millions remain homeless, the corruption of housing funds continues. Government officials benefit from each hollow block, while the poor are being thrown away in floods, death zones, and hunger,”
The human cost of corruption: 13.7 million families now live in poverty and 4.5 million families reported going hungry because state funds intended for social services were lost to graft.
“What drowned Cebu was not just rain, it was the flood of corruption, of negligence, of a government that has long abandoned its duty to the people.”
CARMMA summed up Enrile’s legacy as defined by “lies, deception, and a complete lack of integrity – qualities unworthy of honor.”
“No one should be criminalized for standing up against corruption.”
Delegates were greeted not by climate order, but by construction. Unfinished floors, half-built pavilions, and dangling cables set the tone for a summit struggling to meet its own promises.
The victim, identified as 36-year-old Joe Ann Escudro, a peasant organizer, was reportedly shot twice in the chest by an unidentified armed assailant who forcibly entered her residence, according to Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas – Negros (KMP-Negros). She died on the spot.
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ACT Teachers Representative and Deputy Minority Leader Antonio Tinio slammed Marcos Jr's hypocrisy.
The billions of pesos worth of projects failed to shield many parts of the Cebu province from flooding.
"While our houses are submerged in flood water, they are literally swimming in money."
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Miriam has worn many uniforms: factory worker, admin officer, pastoral worker, local official, peasant organizer.
Despite the harm to the residents’ health and livelihood, they did not get any compensation.
Pamalakaya calls for immediate economic aid and long-term compensation and for URC to shoulder the cleanup costs.
“These impacts are not entirely caused by natural disasters but by decades of environmental degradation."
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