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Slideshow: Residents defend their homes from demolition
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
In 2011, rights group Karapatan - National Capital Region has monitored at least one case of demolition a month, which more or less translates to at least three families losing their homes everyday due to demolition.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Urban poor residents living along BIR road in Quezon City remain vigilant after a recent demolition threat in their community. "We were informed that a demolition team would arrive in our community (last Nov. 28) to...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Urban poor groups trooped to the government housing agency to protest the massive demolition of homes in North and East Triangle areas to give way to the Quezon City Central Business District project. In a statement,...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"Real development must be based on social justice. It cannot be achieved by forcibly evicting and throwing us to the countryside and to remote places without decisively resolving the roots of our poverty and oppression."
QC residents hold rally before anti-poverty agency.
(Click to view larger image. Photos by Kadamay-North Triangle)
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Residents of Sitio San Roque in Quezon City remain vigilant even after Mayor Herbert Bautista have extended the deadline for the demolition of their homes. "It is hard to be poor because we are always neglected by our...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Residents of San Roque subvillage, Pag-asa, North Triangle in Quezon City held a protest actio in front of the UP-Ayala Land Techno Hub, Friday, vowing to fight the impending demolition of their community. City administrator...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – A few days before President Benigno S. Aquino III delivers his State of the Nation Address (Sona), three more victims add to the growing list of political killings. Roque Laputan, 59, a member of Anakpawis partylist, Davao...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- For urban poor communities, a threat of a demolition is a threat to their lives and their livelihood. Naturally, they would fight it, by all means possible and whatever is at hand, including picking up rocks, bottles,...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
When violence erupted when residents of Sito San Roque, near Trinoma mall, resisted attempts by the National Housing Authority to demolish their homes, President Benigno Aquino III ordered a stay in the demolition. But for the residents, the fight is not yet over as tensions flare up once in while.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The small alley that leads to the community of urban poor dwellers along Agham Road in Quezon City was filled with ashes soaked in water. From being a congested and heavily populated area, all that was left of their...
Media workers of an independent audio-visual group decried the harassment by the local police during the violent demolition of an urban-poor community in San Juan, Metro Manila.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK | The Pinaglabanan residents did not need my tears. They needed help. And if reporting about their struggles and exposing what they had to go through could help, why would I deny it to them?
Pinaglabanan Residents' Last Stand
Pinaglabanan Folk Fight for Their Homes
By TUDLA PRODUCTIONS
Police and snipers have been sent by the San Juan City government to help in the demolition of an estimated 800 homes in Barangay Corazon de Jesus. The residents have set up a barricade to try to stop the destruction of their homes today. Follow the live updates here.
By ADELA DEYAEN WAYAS Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY – Cypress Irisan settlers displaced by the demolition implemented by the city government here last November 30 are asking for humanitarian assistance. In an interview, Villanueva Patting,...
Urban Poor Resist Demolition
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