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“We must address the roots of what makes for the proliferation of the illegal drug trade and not just give the police a license to kill.”
“The money spent in dropping a single bomb could have gone a long way in providing for the education of Lumad children, but instead, the government uses it to destroy their lives and future.”
Corporate income tax recovery comprised 31 percent and 26 percent of the rates charged to consumers by Manila Water and Maynilad, respectively, in 2008 and 2012.
The bloody trail of killings of activists continues under the current administration.
"It is the rejection of the kind of DSWD that genuinely served the poor and marginalized.”
Progressive lawmakers want to realign funds for infrastructure, military and debt service.
The study discusses different forms of militarism, the reasons behind it and its effects in women.
“Malayong lupain amin mang marating. Di rin magbabago ang damdamin.”
The Marawi evacuees want to go home soon not only because they feel the conflict should have been mopped up earlier with the forces sent in by the government. They also worry over possible threats of dislocation via "rehabilitation" and other plans such as the expansion of plantations and promoting eco-tourism.
A group of families of victims of drug-related killings use art to move on and seek justice.
Thirty years under a sham agrarian reform program and one year under a progressive agrarian reform chief.
“Groups helping them now must go beyond providing humanitarian relief and psycho-social services: they need all the help they can get in giving voice to the bakwit’s desire to reclaim Marawi.”
Many protesters’ faces were set in a grim likeness, smiling-but-not-smiling, a kind of general resignation that this day, like so many others before it, might simply be another day of disappointment for all.
"We now face the US-Duterte regime, imperialist tool in oppressing the Filipino people."
“It’s as if they’re just playing with us workers.”
At least one Lumad school comes under attack per week under the Duterte administration.
“Her release was made possible by her family, lawyers, human rights advocates, and UP students and teachers, who raised bail money for her.”
“We in DAR are one with the struggles of the Filipino people.”
“The caravan aims to bring attention to the failure of the Duterte administration to take steps toward genuinely solving the root cause of an ill health system, especially for the Filipino masses.”
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