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“Patricia Licuanan’s statement further exposed the true intention of the administration of President Aquino to abdicate its obligation to ensure that children and the youth will have an opportunity to study and finish higher education.”
“It is ironic that our letter signed by the judge was honored. But the judge herself was not allowed to enter.”
“Artists are very effective in criticism because the attack is different, its penetration to the audience’s consciousness is different. Art goes straight to the heart, to the psyche.”
“Its health agenda document, like that of past administrations...is all rhetorics of accessibility and quality health care for the poor, while in reality, the people are left miserable and dying with inadequate health care.”
As of May, there were more than 260,000 IDPs in the Philippines, the result of conflict and natural disasters. Too often the government talks the talk while neglecting them – or worse.
The German City Council said Matutina “pits herself against serious human rights violations in her homeland that occur in connection with the gold extraction of international companies in the Philippine Island of Mindanao."
“It is the accused who will benefit the most because they are shopping for a more favorable or sympathetic judge. The obvious game plan is to dribble and plod.”
“Under DO 18-A, it has now become legal for companies to evade responsibility in giving workers their right to regular employment."
“Rep. Nancy Catamco will endanger not only the Manobo evacuees in Davao, but also all indigenous peoples groups in the Philippines.”
"Do everything to get out, so that there will be someone who will tell what really happened here."
“It is imperative for the government to first address the call of Lumad evacuees to demilitarize their communities so that they can return.”
"The MRT is the best illustration of the impropriety of the Aquino administration when it comes to providing services to their people.”
Artists bring their art, songs and dance to depict the people’s lives at the SONA protest.
As President Benigno Aquino III delivered his last State of the Nation Address (SONA), netizens shared their insights and sentiments.
“At long last, after eight years, the Manalo brothers will finally have an inch towards the path of justice.”
“The criminal negligence of the Department of Labor and Employment and the Bureau of Fire Protection resulted in the deaths of Kentex workers…”
"What they did yesterday was, they showed a picture of how they violate human rights."
“The Aquino administration has an incurable ineptitude."
"The Lumads have sought refuge in UCCP after fleeing their villages that have been overrun by the military. Now the police are driving them away with brute force.”
“If he will again sugarcoat and put rhetoric in his SONA, surely it will have no effect because the public is already enlightened how a ‘disaster president’ he was.”
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