BULATLAT SPECIAL REPORT
Under a negligent government, legitimate demands will continue to bring people out of their homes and into the danger zone that is the barricade.
Barricade | Asserting the people’s rights
Tags: victims of typhoon Pablo
Lumad climate change activist shot dead
Felix Basig, a leader of the Mandaya tribe in a climate-change affected community in Davao Oriental was gunned down June 25.
Foreign peace advocates score ‘neglected’ condition in Typhoon Pablo areas
“My taxes are sent (here) for military aid. Money should build roads, should be given to health care, decent things for the people, not military aid,” says Ron Gochez of Union del Barro, Los Angeles.
Pablo victims warn of bigger, bolder protests against DSWD, Aquino gov’t
This, after the Department of Social Welfare and Development-XI refused to release the 10,000 sacks of rice committed by Sec. Corazon ‘Dinky’ Soliman even after the leaders had presented and submitted their distribution plan on Thursday, February 7.
Government sues victims of typhoon Pablo
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Exhibiting total disregard for the needs of typhoon victims and a strong bias against the poor, the Philippine National Police in Compostela Valley filed cases against eight leaders of typhoon victims who staged a protest action against the lack of distribution of relief goods in their area and to demand for a stop to large-scale mining and illegal logging activities.