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“When decent work disappears in one country, exploitation appears in another. That is why international solidarity matters..."
Throughout the program, speakers argued that the country's worsening economic conditions, corruption, attacks on human rights, environmental degradation, and controversial development projects stem from policies that prioritize foreign and corporate interests over the welfare of Filipinos.
“It sets a bad, dangerous precedent. They conducted the arrest in the middle of the protest. Even police protocols and the law prohibits it."
“We expect reforms in education that will address classroom shortages, increase teaching and education support personnel, and improve teachers’ salaries."
Marcos Jr. will likely boast in his next SONA about the administration’s campaign against corruption.
"For years, the ATA and the TFPSA have served as legal weapons for unjust arrests, prolonged detention, bank account freezes and other forms of political repression, threatening the people’s fundamental rights and freedoms."
"Recognition is not enough without concrete rights."
After eight years together, one LGBTQIA+ couple discovered that the law still did not recognize their relationship when it mattered most, exposing the legal gaps that continue to leave same-sex partners unprotected.
“Marcos Jr. has a big role in the currently existing environmental plunder."
"We hope there will be no more mining projects and that these mining companies will leave, because I know that mining is not the only way a community can achieve progress."
Eleven journalists and media workers were killed under his administration, according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP).
The prolonged and permanent displacement, long-overdue monetary compensation, and the dire situation of displaced families reflect “the true face of Marawi’s rehabilitation.”
"Marcos is at the top, and those at the lower levels cannot be the only ones held accountable."
For whom is this going to serve? It always goes to big business, to bureaucrats, to corrupt government officials, to the same people it always goes to.
While Pax Silica is framed as a promising venture between two longtime allies against China, history shows a picture of wanton labor exploitation, aggressive land conversion and expansion, and massive resource extraction.
“Any act by law enforcement that prevents members of the press from documenting public assemblies undermines press freedom."
“It’s a confirmation of worthiness, perhaps of what we are doing."
If the United States were forced to acknowledge its own long history of aggression against Cuba—the invasion, the assassination attempts, the economic warfare, the occupation of Guantánamo—the report's narrative of Cuban "subversion" would collapse. The aggressor would be revealed as the victim, and the victim as the aggressor.
"We learned so much, including the daily indignities they experienced."
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