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“For me, when a child says that she has not seen a nurse nor a doctor, that means that is where my services are needed.”
“End the calvary of the people. Aquino should resign.”
There are 200,000 unemployed nurses in the country. Yet those who work in government and private hospitals are overworked and underpaid.
President Aquino’s appeal for “understanding” could only anger the people more, progressives say.
“We just want peace. We do not want others to go through the kind of pain we are experiencing.” -- Julie Cayang-o, one of the widows of the SAF 44
“It is not enough to say ‘I am sorry.’ Someone should be held accountable.” - Bishop Broderick Pabillo
In Women’s month, mothers, daughters and wives – all environmental defenders – continue to march against the monsters that threaten their homes and communities.
The P16,000 national minimum wages represent only a 17-percent cut in profit, and it would not necessarily cause inflation if the establishments bore the dip in profit instead of passing it on to prices of their products or services. - Ibon Foundation
Security guards in a disputed land in Bukidnon fired at Lumads, killing one and wounding two others.
“Gone are the days of forbearance. The people do not want Aquino’s apology, the people want him to step down.”
The Catholic Bishops has been pushing for another extension of the CARPER because of the prevailing landlessness among the country's peasant majority. The Aquino government has supposedly acquiesced and instructed its allies in Congress to extend CARPER.
Progressive farmers' groups, on the other hand, are pushing not for another extension of CARPER but its version of agrarian reform, the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill.
And the debate is on.
Peasants, church workers and colleagues remember Aglipayan priest William Tadena, who was killed by a suspected state death squad 10 years ago.
They were not yet OFWs when Flor Contemplacion was executed. What impact did Flor Contemplacion’s death had on them then?
"While Aquino is in power, we risk our life. He wields instruments that make the people suffer."
“Junk the labor export policy. Noynoy, resign.You should leave now. This is what I want and what everyone wants.”- Nora Aunor
Human rights lawyer Maria Catherine Salucon says the granting of the writs of Amparo and Habeas data may be a “landmark decision” but it does not mean that she would let her guard down.
The “Balit mission” confirms cases of rights abuses by soldiers in Lumad communities, who were forced to evacuate.
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