“We wanted to know why up to now, thousands of housing units are still idle.”
Police disperse urban poor protesters in NHA
Tags: Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay)
Kalbaryo ng Maralita 2017 | Poor’s suffering continues under Duterte
“Where is the change that you promised?”
‘Heartless against the homeless’ | Bail set for detained Apollo urban poor
“Where will they get the money for bail? This is further oppression of the poor whose only fault is to fight for the land they have been living on for more than 30 years.”
Police arrest 57 homeless urban poor reclaiming land in QC
“They have lived in the streets for nine months, with no relocation or aid, and now that they are reclaiming what is rightfully theirs, they are being treated like criminals?”
Protesters arrested after rally at Times Street
By IGAL SAN ANDRES and PATRICIA LOURDES VIRAY Bulatlat.com Six members of the urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) were arrested after staging a lightning rally in front of the house of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III in Times Street, Quezon City. The protesters were residents of San Roque, Quezon City, one of…
Children of Silverio compound, traumatized but determined to defend their homes
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Children are not deaf and blind to ignore what was happening.
Group scores P-Noy for new ADB loan
NEWS RELEASE 01 Sep 2010 The urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) reiterated its warning to the Aquino administration against accepting further foreign loans to fund its anti-poverty programs, saying that this will cause the country greater harm in the long run. News reports have confirmed that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is…
Food Riots, Anarchy Feared Amid Rice Crisis
BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat SPECIAL REPORT Vol. VIII, No. 8, March 30-April 5, 2008 Amid recent reports of another impending rice crisis, a local university-based agricultural economist said he is not surprised by the reports because “there has been a prolonged and continuous decline in Philippine agricultural productivity since the early 1970s.” Dr. Romeo…