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SPECIAL REPORT:
“When mothers are detained, they are not the only ones being punished...It is even more punishment for the children and their families.”
“Our victory symbolizes women who are fighting for their rights, for children and for the nation.”
“This is the only hospital that caters to poor mothers, not only those who live here in Manila but also nearby provinces, and still the government will close it down.”
"The Aquino government is now drawing to a close, yet there is no let up still in the brutalities against the people and progressive members of our society."
“There will never be justice for Laude unless Pemberton truly pays for his crimes.”
“To be Gabriela Women’s Party-list second nominee is to be the voice of the people in Congress.”
“The situation is the same after all these years. For the Moro people, it’s a cycle of escaping from conflict.”
“I am not stopping, because what we want is the ever-widening ranks of the organized.”
“We need to see their sincerity in responding to our demands for land, jobs, just wages, social services and rights”
“Women will not hesitate to unite and smash a leadership that will make us suffer the same crooked governance as the current administration.”
“As children, we have the right to participate and be heard.”
“Empowering women means providing them economic opportunities: by creating regular, reliable, and respectable jobs, as well as by giving decent living wages.”
“After almost six years, the cry of the people, particularly of women, for jobs and justice, food and freedom persists.”
Bulatlat wins its fourth Hildegarde.
BULATLAT SPECIAL REPORT:
"Raise our arms to the sky, Gabrielas with no fear, no fear..."
“We will continue to rise, not only up to the International Women’s Day on March 8, but througout the whole year or even longer, as long as the government does not hear our demands.”
“I think, what I constantly learn from indigenous people is we have to simplify everything. We all have to strip away all these veneer and all these capitalist consumptive destructions of the earth and coal, and oil, and logging and live simple lives connected to our mother.” -- Eve Ensler
“After being victims of Japanese war crimes, comfort women are now being made victims of historical distortion.”
This year’s OBR Philippine campaign is a virtual indictment of President Aquino, whose regime was marked by increased poverty, absence of state accountability, and an escalation of violence against women.
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