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Focusing on just Manila Water diverts the issue away from privatization as the central issue in, and underlying reason behind, the artificial shortage. As such, it also has the effect of absolving government of responsibility when in fact, the biggest accountability in all this lies with government for abandoning its duty to ensure water for the people.
"If they can kill lawyers, then they can practically kill anybody.”
“The Duterte administration is exploiting the vulnerability of Metro Manila residents who are justly demanding accessible and efficient water services.”
“We cannot expect to be able to fight for justice if we cannot protect the peoples’ lawyers.”
By targeting the Philippine alternative press, however, those behind the attack inadvertently highlighted its role in shaping public opinion.
We enjoin everyone from all walks of life to unite against, to expose, and to work together in stopping the attacks against all media.
“We have reason to believe that the Duterte administration has orchestrated this cyber attack on websites of critical and independent media as part of its efforts to silence criticism and dissent against it,” said Ronalyn Olea, managing editor of Bulatlat.
Unionists have defended their protest camp from at least four instances of forced demolition while in Manila.
“We will not allow our families to go hungry, jobless and homeless.”
Since December, Bulatlat and several alternative media outfits have been experiencing a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, where the server of a website is maliciously being overloaded to shut it down.
What is common in the stories of the residents in various coastal sitios of Bulacan is that the “news” about their impending displacement is coming to them in trickles of information packaged in a threat.
“…if traditional politicians will be here to stay, then this will be no different from the past attempts to build an autonomous region.”
While the government is riding on the popular call for cleanup of Manila Bay, harnessing free labor of volunteers for fishing out thrash in Manila Bay, it is, on the other hand, disproportionately blaming the poor and seeking their demolition in favor of reclamation plans and other real estate development.
“Truly, without their work, petitioner GMA would have nothing to air, hence the private respondents' services in the former's television program were unquestionably necessary and essential.”
“All tyrants believe in forever. But history, especially People Power, shows that we, the people, eventually triumph.”
“His death is a reminder that we should fight for what is right.”
“If we recall, during the Marcos dictatorship, the first thing he did was to suppress the media.
"You took Jonas away from us. Now, you want the history of Jonas’ own abduction and disappearance erased from history. Stop abducting your own citizens. The ones who should be made to pay for the violations are the very criminals within your ranks."
Now on its seventh year, Filipino women's rights advocates once again took the streets of Manila to dance and protest the misogyny and rising tyranny in the country.
“It's the beginning of the end of the local rice industry. Even with the rice industry enhancement fund, the local rice industry do not stand a chance with massive rice imports.”
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