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"This [#BarangayDamayan] aims to unite citizens while we undergo this public health crisis. It is very evident how the government has not provided urgent solutions such as free mass testing, accessible health care and assurance of job security amid the community quarantine. We see these as more tangible solutions rather than troop deployment."
Jose Maria Sison said the NDFP is not assured and satisfied that the ceasefire announcement is based on national unity against Covid-19, the appropriate solution of the pandemic as a medical problem and the protection of the most vulnerable sectors of the population, including workers, health workers, those with any serious ailments and the political prisoners.
COVID-19 has laid bare the class contradictions in Philippine society. Not only has it exposed the private sector for what it is – a profiteering class of capitalists, but it has also exposed the government and its institutions for what they are – tools of the same profiteering class to ensure that they can continue profiting.
The affected residents are now staying in the streets amid the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine.
Hindi malinaw ang pagbibigay ng impormasyon at sistema ng komunikasyon sa mga taong maaaring magkasakit kaya lumawak ang maraming maling impormasyon ukol sa ginagawa ng pamahalaan. Walang pagsasaalang-alang sa kabuhayan ng mga tao sakaling magkaroon ng malawakang kwarantenas sa mga naaapektuhang lugar.
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The only certainty we now have is that we have been left to fend for ourselves. This administration absolves itself of any responsibility to mind the ordinary people’s survival.
“Instead of imposing unnecessary requirements, we expect government to provide an atmosphere conducive to press freedom.”
Amid the calls to “stay at home” and “work at home,” an urban poor group said thousands of Filipinos do not have roofs over their heads in the first place.
Teresita Naul, Karapatan National Council member and Bayan Muna member was arrested by members of the 4th Infantry Division. She was charged with kidnapping, illegal detention and arson.
"We are aware that we need to contribute to the resolution of this emergency and we can do it best by doing our jobs as journalists."
"To those who are reducing this as 'matigas ang ulo,' kindly check not only your body temperature but also your privilege. Making people choose between 'not spreading the virus' and 'magtrabaho para may makain ang pamilya' is never fair." By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL...
To: Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea Department of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra Bureau of Corrections Director General Gerald Bantag Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Director Allan Iral The Philippine prison system has the highest congestion rate...
“The community quarantine or lockdown over Metro Manila spells forced hunger to millions of low-income workers who cannot afford to skip a day despite the current COVID-19 pandemic.”
The workers need economic packages such as a month's worth of salary that should be subsidized by the government or their company, moratorium on electricity and water bill collections or one month subsidy for these utilities.
“If Italy and other developed countries could admit that their health care systems could collapse in the advent of disease outbreak, then what more in our own country where health care is inaccessible and highly privatized? Duterte’s assurance is for the police and the military, not for us and our families in the Philippines.”
Sa pamumuno ni Lorena Barros, inilunsad ng MAKIBAKA ang maraming protesta laban sa kahirapan at para sa demokratisasyon ng lipunan. Tiningnan nilang hindi pa malaya ang sambayanan at dominante pa rin ang mga dayuhan at mayayaman sa lipunan. Higit pa roon, binigyang diin niil na hindi magiging ganap ang kalayaan hangga’t hindi pa napalalaya ang lipunan.
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