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“The election period has highlighted the youth sector’s clamor for free public education up to the tertiary level, a move that can only be achieved by stopping tuition and other fee increases and at the same time, allocating greater state funding for public education institutions, including all state universities and colleges.”
“We need to ready ourselves for an intensified fight for our democratic rights.”
Early this morning, at around 9:30 a.m., the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting received a call from a hotel staff, informing them that VCMs were brought there.
"These reports put to question the accuracy of the votes supposedly counted by the VCMs”
The voter can verify through his or her receipt, but even if he or she sees and reports an error, this erroneous vote has been included in the precinct count.
Its consistent pronouncements regarding its main methods of achieving deep social changes excluded participating in what it calls as “reactionary elections.”
“Even if the new administration will not pay attention to Mary Jane, we are no longer the old Veloso family who stayed mum on her issue. We have Migrante and Colmenares now.”
“If not for our collective action, management would not be forced to provide some of our demands.”
Aquino, when he was still senator, mentioned and assailed Jonas’ disappearance before a speech in the senate back in 2007, in commemoration of his father’s asassination.
“Kidapawan should not be another Escalante, Mendiola or Luisita.”
Migrante International leader Sol Pillas, 58, served Filipino migrant workers all over the world “until her last breath.”
“This is just farmers demanding rice. What would happen if they would assert emancipation from poverty that has long beset their lives?”
“This is a reflection of the current state of the country’s health workers who endure low wages under a privatized health system.”
The No To Jeepney Phaseout Coalition points to Mar Roxas as one of the prime movers of the jeepney phase out plan when he was still Transportation secretary.
“We deplore the culture of impunity perpetuated by the Aquino administration where even the provision of health services is treated as a criminal act.”
“Bumaba na sila dahil wala naman slang nagagawang kabutihan para sa mamamayan lalo na sa mga mahihirap na tao… Nagmasaker sila ng mga taong walang ibang kahilingan kundi bigas.” (They should step down because they are not doing anything good for the people, especially the poor…They massacred those who were only asking for rice.) -- Nora Aunor
One of the agreed US military base locations is near the site of the historic battle where Filipino revolutionaries defeated American troops in the Philippine-American War.
“There will never be justice for Laude unless Pemberton truly pays for his crimes.”
“What they needed is rice and not the spin of the Liberal Party or the administration.”
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