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“Yes, we may be small and insignificant against their boastful might, but when we band together and speak up, we shall prevail!”
“One year after he was killed, the announced investigation by the Task Force on Administrative Order 35 has yet to show any significant progress towards determination and arrests of suspects. As we assert the struggle for just and lasting peace, we also ring the call for justice for Ka Randy and all peace consultants, and to stop the killings in the Philippines."
"Why will they run again in the next elections? They should have been finding solutions to our problems right now instead of focusing on the next elections."
Hopeful overseas Filipino workers bound to Hong Kong are asking the government for help as the repeated travel bans and flight cancellations have left them stranded here in Metro Manila, putting their work abroad at risk as well.
“Rather than listen to all the valid criticisms, DND continues to brush aside the damning evidence against them by escaping institutional accountability.”
A closer look reveals how VFA and the constant presence of US soldiers have been detrimental, subjecting Filipino women to gender-based abuses.
Inspired by Malaysia’s White Flag movement, activists and volunteers of Defend Jobs Philippines delivered food to urban poor communities in Metro Manila, saying that they aim “to concretize how people in their respective communities can ask and give support to each other.”
“The Operation Pinta and Operation Dikit are unique because the message it carries is serious; issues and appeals that reflect the real situation of the masses such as 'Land for the peasantry'; 'Fair employment for the workers'. For most Filipinos, this is not difficult to understand."
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said their colleagues have not had the chance to breathe since classes ended less than a month ago.
Killings of environmental defenders under the Duterte administration account for 66 percent of the 282 recorded killings since 2001.
With the government’s inability to control the rise of COVID-19 cases in the country, community health advocates are up in arms over the government's response that, for the last 500 or so days, mainly resorted to stricter lockdowns.
The Visiting Forces Agreement is in “full force again” as President Rodrigo Duterte recalled his earlier order to terminate the lopsided military pact between the Philippine and US government.
President Rodrigo Duterte may have delivered the longest State of the Nation Address yet, but it was empty - particularly on how he would deal with what appears to be continuing maritime aggression by China in the West Philippine Sea.
“All these and more only make the calls to end Duterte's murderous regime and to prosecute him for his atrocities even more urgent. One more year of Duterte is too long. We cannot let another dead body be added to this regime's death toll."
Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan said that the police narrative of nanlaban and that weapons recovered from the two are not only ludicrously false but “unbelievable tall tales because both unarmed activists and they surely do not bear arms while doing graffiti.”
It was three hours of grueling speech. But no clear directions were set on how to free the people from one of the worst economic crisis in recent history.
Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan, said that in implementing counterinsurgency policies, state forces have made no distinction between legitimate dissent and armed struggles, and wrongly equated such to terrorism.
"After all that I went through, God prepared me to be strong today."
Overseas Filipino workers and their families only saw broken campaign promises in the last five years of the Duterte presidency.
The first president from Mindanao failed to alleviate the poverty and to resolve the decades-long conflicts in the island.
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