Youth solon hails restoration of slashed budget of SUCs in 2016
“Our fight for greater state subsidy for education continues.”
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“Our fight for greater state subsidy for education continues.”
“What’s at stake here is the Lumad schools, the heritage, the yutang kabilin (ancestral land). The Lumad must survive.” -- UP Diliman Chancellor Michael Tan
“Even in the middle of this very urbanized city, the Talabugta is there.”
More than 70 indigenous organizations from across Asia urged President Benigno Aquino III to put an end to the killings and attacks against the Lumad of Mindanao.
Their only dream is to uplift their lives, have education that their ancestors have been deprived of, live peacefully in their ancestral land and develop it for their families and the next generation.
“A resolute action is needed now to protect the Lumád way of life and to give the future generation the opportunity to interact with and learn from our indigenous tribes.”
“Moses said, ‘Let the people go.’ But today, we are asking to ‘let the people come.’”
Teachers and students of the Fr. Fausto Tentorio Memorial School in Kitaotao, Bukidnon province seek help as the village chief leads the demolition and closure of their school.
“In Tacloban, there was Typhoon Yolanda, in Mindanao there are 56 military battalions, the strong storm against the people,.
"As it stands now, we find Eduardo Serrano not 'judicially charged' under any resolution, information or amended information.”
“If they are able to do surveillance inside campus, we can only imagine the magnitude of repression the Lumád experiences in Mindanao.”
“We promised our family we would seek justice no matter what hardships we encounter. The Manilakbayan will be just one among many journeys we will take to achieve this.”
Privatization of the health care system in the country continues to take lives, with no less than an impoverished Nobel Laureate transpiring without being given needed medical aid.
“He might try to run away again and never to be found.”
Progressive lawmaker Neri Colmenares was among the first to file candidacy for the senate.
“What could be the motive of the robber in taking only the CPU and leaving other more valuable things? Information.”
The urban poor group Kadamay said the demolition was meant to pave way for the construction of "Cloverleaf," a high-end business and residential complex owned by a big real estate company Ayala Land.
“The MRT-LRT should be a public service. It should be for the people and not be used by big business to impose unjustified fees.”
“As humans, we are supposed to work in order to live. But corporate greed made us live just to work for capitalists,” Oliquino.
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