Peasants urge Duterte: Stop killings, address landlessness
“The gravity of the land problem continues to compel farmers to organize themselves and struggle for social justice.”
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“The gravity of the land problem continues to compel farmers to organize themselves and struggle for social justice.”
"Apatnapu't walo, at di matalo-talo.”
“We’re just being retooled to become cheap labor.”
How many sacadas must be exploited in Hacienda Luisita and other sugar plantations in the country to produce sugar made bitter by their sweat and tears?
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“They try to bury us. They didn’t know we are seeds.”
“Many informal settlers are struggling to meet their families’ daily basic needs, and are also ineligible for housing loans from the Home Mutual Development Fund (HMDF) and Pag-IBIG.”
They held numerous dialogues with the appropriate government agencies to air their problems such as lack of housing, the expensive amortization and the lack of social services.
“We hope President Rodrigo Duterte would listen to us.”
Groups commemorate the tragedy that sparked the Moro liberation movement 49 years ago.
“Any policy that does not aim to end all forms of contractualization can never be acceptable to workers.”
“Why did the ERC allow Meralco to increase its rates when it can’t even tell us the kind of alternative fuels that were used, its cost per unit and the quantity used during the two and a half week shutdown?”
“Ignorance of the law, feigned or otherwise, is not an excuse.”
“As if to mock Kristel and all the victims of the rotten education system, Duterte’s cohorts in Congress and Senate are pushing for a ‘free tuition’ policy that will allow the nationwide implementation of UP’s STS – the very policy that killed Kristel.”
A 70-year-old woman who was arrested in Marikina City is the latest political detainee.
“Homelessness amid rotting houses meant for the poor is unjust.”
It seems the public clamor for the resumption of talks has been heard.
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