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As the LBC management is asking the labor department to assume jurisdiction of the labor dispute to quell the impending strike, the concerned union and supporters in the capital waved “Boycott LBC Express” posters.
“It is a huge suffering for the fishermen, especially for their families. If you have no money and your pots are empty, what will happen to you?”
“From the Mutual Defense Treaty which is not mutual, to the Visiting Forces Agreement which Filipinos are not in agreement with, and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement which enhances the Philippines as a US military compound, our country is always at the losing end.”
“If they cannot be released, then we appeal that they would be transferred to an accessible facility.”
“Aquino and his coco levy mafia are now on electoral fund-raising mode and are drooling to plunder the small coconut farmers’ money while they are still in power.”
Two indigenous peoples and peasants struggling for land are killed in the country every month.
A campaign committee calls for the release of peace consultant Adelberto Silva, Sharon Cabusao and Isidro de Lima, and for the resumption of talks between the Government of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.
Davao City mayor asks the state army and police "to always respect those who fight for their principles."
“The endorsement of Lobo government officials for the MRL-Egerton mining project should be revoked and reversed to protect Lobo’s lives, livelihood, and environment.”
“It is because of poverty that they do not have enough capacity to purchase materials and equipment to ensure their safety in times of disaster.”
Felix Basig, a leader of the Mandaya tribe in a climate-change affected community in Davao Oriental was gunned down June 25.
“We are here today to show that after nine years, the calls of UP students and other sectors to surface Karen, Sherlyn and all the other victims of human rights violations, are not stopping.”
Petitioners said the new education curriculum puts to waste future mathematicians, scientists and engineers as it dilutes the school’s special science curriculum.
“The continued failure of the government to arrest, prosecute and convict the perpetrators is indicative of how little, if any at all, importance that the Aquino administration is making to stop this murderous rampage and end the state of impunity in our country.”
“It is clear that soldiers have been using DSWD’s 4Ps program to threaten parents and children not to enroll in Misfi and Salugpungan schools.”
A man who introduced himself as a soldier approached Renato Asa, public information officer of labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno, to recruit him as an informant of the military, and issued a veiled threat telling him his life is in danger if he refused.
“Respect our sovereignty and right to national self-determination.”
“It was as if they were after Osama Bin Laden. Sa ganda kong ito? Pambihira naman.”
For the military, torture and other heinous human rights violations are acceptable when committed against those who refuse to bow to them.
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