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By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"It's never right to live in fear. Those who attack the civil, political and human rights of the Filipino people thrive on fear and persist in their attacks because of a culture of impunity. To remain silent is to play along with your own victimization." -human rights advocate Ma. Isabel Aquino
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"We are workers, we are not slaves. It is time for labor power to lead and guide the world for it gives and sustains life, unlike finance capital which is a grave-digger of both human life and nature."
By RONALYN V. OLEA
They were arrested without a warrant and tortured to admit to being members of the Abu Sayyaf. And they have been suffering in jail for years while the wheels of justice move slowly.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The International Women’s Alliance (IWA) is waging a fight against widespread hunger, poverty, deterioration of social welfare, unemployment, landlessness, human rights abuses, and militarization, on top of discrimination and different forms of violence against women.
Sidebar: International Women’s Alliance recognizes exemplary women in the struggle
By RONALYN V. OLEA
"Hacienda Luisita belongs to Luisita land tillers. President Aquino and his family have no legal, moral and political bases to keep the sugar estate.” – International League of Peoples’ Struggle
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Governments in Europe are responding to the world economic crisis by tightening control by the European Union and forcing an intensified implementation of neo-liberal measures to compete with the US. Hard-hit by these measures are the working people who are now rising up, conducting massive strikes and protest actions.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“When the war is being presented as a humanitarian endeavor, then that means that the lie has become the truth." – Michel Chossudovsky
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"It is an added instrument, a tool and a weapon. But it is not the answer to migrant workers' problems." – Migrant workers' organization
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Landlords, land grabbers, corrupt governments and imperialism – we must all fight and defeat them. The landlords say they will never give up their lands, but what is stronger than their greed is the righteousness of our struggle for land and our humanity.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Legal protest movements are rising on a global scale in an unprecedented way. They are fueled by pro-imperialist and reactionary policies and such concrete conditions generated by these as rising mass unemployment, soaring prices of food, fuel and other basic commodities and increasingly violent reaction of states to unarmed protests.” – Professor Jose Maria Sison
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
According to IBON data, TNCs account for 50 percent of all oil, gas and coal extraction and refining. Only 10 TNCs account for about 41 percent of world production of oil and gas, and TNCs control 80 percent of land worldwide which is cultivated for cash crops. Only 20 TNCs account for about 90 percent of the sales of hazardous pesticides and other agricultural chemicals.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Obviously, Malacañang’s unseen hand played a major role in the anti-farmer decision of the Supreme Court.” Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"We are alarmed that CMU, a center for education and formation of values, by its actions, is promoting a teaching of values that contradicts the intention of social justice. By denying the farmers the land that is very much attached to their lives, the CMU has become a despotic landlord rather than an educational institution." - solidarity mission
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Using Einstein’s definition of insanity, Ibon's Jose Enrique Africa said that with the Philippine Development Plan of President Benigno Aquino III, the government is doing the same things all over again and expecting different results.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Since the Moro Islamic Liberation Front submitted its draft comprehensive compact in February, the government’s counter-proposal has been highly anticipated, because putting the drafts on the table is expected “to lead to substantive talks,” said the MILF.
Sidebar:
Interview with MILF’s Iqbal on the current MILF-GPH ceasefire, peace talks
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
There can be no ‘Pilipinas Natin’ when majority of the people are poor, when 11 million are jobless and when millions experience hunger. There can be no ‘Pilipinas Natin’ if vast tracts of land are owned by a few families like the Cojuangco-Aquinos.” – Bayan
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Saying that the ARMM needs reform and (that these) can only be done when Aquino appoints an OIC [officer-in-charge] is an act of chauvinism by Aquino against the Moro people and the constituents of ARMM." – Ba Ali Indayla, secretary-general of KAWAGIB.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The Aquino administration has been contented in being a passive spectator, leaving the victims, relatives, human rights defenders and their lawyers on their own.” – National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Development does not mean wiping out communities of farmers, fisherfolk and indigenous peoples.” – Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson
Sidebar:
Aurora govt officials sow disunity, fear among indigenous peoples, settlers to grab their lands
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"Instead of making polluters pay, the national government pays polluters. Aquino condoned billions of pesos in terms of tax liabilities and obligations of foreign and private operators of coal plants." – Kalikasan
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