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A gathering of martial law activists and victims pledged to keep retelling their painful stories, so the younger generation would not let these happen again.
“We hope that the Supreme Court will see the realities that the DepEd refuses to acknowledge, and not become a party to killing the dreams of hundreds of thousands of young Filipinos.”
The alliance Pamalakaya presented the Fishers’ Agenda to electoral candidates.
“Government should act on the worsening education crisis.”
“More people will join our crusade as there will certainly be catastrophic displacements of college teachers in the thousands and the equally catastrophic dropping out of students who cannot afford private education.”
BULATLAT SPECIAL REPORT:
"Raise our arms to the sky, Gabrielas with no fear, no fear..."
The combined peace initiatives of the Braganza team, the NDFP negotiating panel and the Royal Norwegian Government Special Envoy thus have come to naught. The responsibility lies squarely on Secretary Deles and President Aquino." -- NDFP
“This is already a crisis. How does this government define a crisis? Do OFWs need to die of hunger first?”
Bulatlat asked government employees what they will do if they get an additional P2,000, to be given in tranches the next four years. No one was happy about it.
“This is like a basketball game, and President Aquino wants to pass this law in the last two minutes of the game.”
“We will continue to rise, not only up to the International Women’s Day on March 8, but througout the whole year or even longer, as long as the government does not hear our demands.”
“There is very limited time for substantive discussions.”
“There is a need for us to express alarm, since this oppressive policy – which has already been the subject of congressional debates in the past – remains largely in place.”
The national government subsidizes only 10 to 12 percent of NKTI’s operations.
“I think, what I constantly learn from indigenous people is we have to simplify everything. We all have to strip away all these veneer and all these capitalist consumptive destructions of the earth and coal, and oil, and logging and live simple lives connected to our mother.” -- Eve Ensler
Elmer Labog of KMU urged workers to keep organizing and forming or defending their unions, saying the plight of workers won’t improve without their own action and organization, without unions, and without genuinely pro-worker unions in particular.
“Kaso hindi kuko (Focus on the case, not the nails),” Garry Martinez quipped
“After being victims of Japanese war crimes, comfort women are now being made victims of historical distortion.”
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