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“We commemorate the 31st Cordillera Day honoring the people’s martyrs celebrating victories and gearing for greater challenges for the defense of our land, life and resources.”
"It appears that even Justice Secretary Leila de Lima was ordered not to act on the complaints we filed against the Cojuangco-Aquinos.”
“We will never attain comfort under this government which has no compassion for the sufferings of the Filipino people”.
“Those who would reject it will continue the struggle. The tragedy here is we are repeating history.”
“The Aquino government wants to make the production of cheap labor even more systematic with the K+12.”
The issue here is not only the highly irregular process in which Comelec chose Smartmatic-TIM to do diagnostic work with the PCOS machines. The issue here is the lack of transparency, the lack of check and balance within Comelec, the lack of openness and accountability to the public.” -- Kabataan Partylist Rep. Terry Ridon
Relatives of distressed OFWs expressed support to Mary Jane Veloso while expressing their frustrations over the seeming lack of action from the government.
“All public officials who claim to be serving Filipinos should echo the call to save Mary Jane’s life.”
“If our justice system will continue to serve as a tool of repression that has made environmentalists into an ‘endangered species,’ then it leaves us no other recourse but to seek justice in higher venues of struggle.”
“When it comes to modernization, we got a big zero.”
“This anti-worker scheme, implemented by the bank with the connivance of BSP, only favors employers by saving on labor cost.”
Health workers from various regions joined the protest against the privatization of the Philippine Orthopedic Center, and for wage hikes.
“This is an attack on the rights of Elmer James Bandol and on the freedom of the press.”
“We are losing our sense of being Filipino.”
"Aquino has no legal and moral authority to sell these coco levy funded corporations and assets.”
The dismissal was due to the failure of the prosecution to bring before the court the complainants of the nearly 30-year-old case.
“Mamasapano is just the tipping point for many workers. We want Aquino removed for pressing down wages, promoting contractual employment, violating workers’ rights to form unions and hold strikes, and other crimes.”
Based on world market trends, fuel energy available to power producers now cost more than 50-percent lower. As such, the Malampaya shutdown “clearly should not result to additional costs, and thus, (there is) no basis for any power rate hike.”
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