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More than half a million government employees are non-regulars who are classified under different names, suc as emergency-hired, memorandum-of-agreement (MOA) workers, job-order employees.
Environmentalists hope government action against destructive firms will lead towards reorientation of the mining industry.
Peasant groups assailed the killing of a farmer leader in the 39,000-disputed government-owned lands sprawling the towns of Coron and Busuanga in Palawan.
Women play a vital role in society and their socio-economic needs must be addressed so they could fully realize their potential.
“The Marcos dictatorship failed to crush the revolutionary movement. ...and no reactionary government can defeat it as long as the societal bases and factors for their existence remain.”
“This is the meat of the problem, the basic suffering of the people, which is connected to their stomach.”
“Martial Law may not exist today but the social conditions that gave rise to it remain.”
Ibon Foundation and patriotic scientists are pushing for the development of the local steel industry, saying it is a basic industry that has a bearing on the development also of other industries, from construction to transportation to making machines for agriculture and consumer goods production.
Many steps have yet to be undertaken for the spirit and intent of the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) -- to make the armed conflict more humane and to protect civilians -- be realized.
Their only demands are regularization on the job, immediate economic relief through a wage increase, and some benefits.
“It is time to rock the boat, it is time to assert Philippine sovereignty, to junk VFA, Edca.”
“It was a time of the revolution. Now that we’ve come back, revolution still rages on.”
“We ask the Duterte administration to do everything to win the domestic case against Mary Jane’s traffickers.”
“The progress of the peace talks is hinged not only on the efforts of the NDFP; it needs the broad, active participation of all patriotic and democratic forces in society.”
“The fact that it will reopen old wounds, isn’t it a continuity of impunity that the 1987 Constitution ended?” -- Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno
In a dialogue with over a thousand members of Anakpawis Partylist, NHA General Manager Marcelino P. Escalada, Jr and HUDCC Director Angelito Aguila signed unity statements pledging to work toward ending demolitions, commercialized housing and to cater to the basic needs of the urban poor, especially those in relocation sites.
“The present leadership of the various shelter agencies appears to be unable to veer away from “the long and bloody record of past administrations of flushing out so-called informal settlers from their communities to make way for big-ticket business or infrastructure projects usually under the pretext of development, city decongestion or even public safety.” – Anakpawis Rep. Ariel Casilao
“There is always a context behind one person’s addiction.”
The family of an OFW who met an accident abroad is determined to make his recruitment agency pay for their negligence.
“It is no secret that the ASG has been created, funded, trained and operated by the US CIA and the AFP.”
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