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By POM CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA
A boy carries wood his father brought home for rebuilding their house." (April 2015, Tacloban City)
Protesters met US President Barack oh his two-day state visit to the Philippines. Photos by Pom Cahilog-Villanueva, Anne Marxze D. Umil and Ronalyn V. Olea Music: Base militar by Inang Bayan Produced by Bulatlat...
A grandmother talks about losing her house to typhoon Yolanda and having to move her family far from their livelihood. Meanwhile, houses of other typhoon survivors were demolished to make way for the government's relocation project.
At the height of supertyphoon Yolanda (international name:Haiyan) on November 8, a power barge operated by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) slammed against houses in Barangay Botongon, Estancia, Iloilo. This resulted in death, displacement and continuing endangerment to thousands of residents in the massive oil spill that followed.
Two months after, the government has still to finish the clean up.
Teachers and students at Botongon Elementary School continue to hold classes up to two hours a day in the midst of clean up operations in their school, exposing them to various health risks.
By POM CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA Bulatlat.com They were the first people I noticed as we approached a mass burial in front of San Joaquin Parish Church in Palo, Leyte: two teenage sisters standing over an unmarked grave with only a single candle protected from the wind by...
On November 8, 2013, Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) hit the Philippines and left thousands dead and millions more homeless in its wake.
As many city children play only virtual games or are parked before TV sets, these kids in a provincial town still play traditional games in the schoolyard after school hours.
Anti-Pork Barrel protesters march from Luneta to Mendiola on the 41st anniversary of the proclamation of martial law. Photos by POM...
Thousands of Filipinos gathered in Luneta on September 13 to continue the fight against corruption in government. Religious groups,students from different schools and universities, members of people's organizations, individuals, young and old prayed, sang and raged...
Churches, groups, individuals and people's organizations gathered at EDSA Shrine for a prayer vigil against the pork barrel system. The event followed the Million People March in various cities in the Philippines and abroad to end corruption in government. Police...
Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gather in Luneta to call for the scrapping of the pork barrel system and to express outrage over the blatant misuse of public funds and growing number of unsolved cases of corruption.
Government officials say the pork barrel is indispensable for development. Listen to what average citizens have to say.
Nida and Solomon Naños were farmworkers in Bicol who were forced to migrate to the city after falling victims to a defective agrarian reform program. They now live along Dario Creek in Quezon City where they face constant threat of demolition.
Protesters from various sectors and regions held their own State of the Nation Address, dubbing it as the Sona ng Bayan (People's SONA) in Commonwealth Avenue as a response to President Aquino's annual SONA. Led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN), protesters condemned the worsening economic conditions in the three years of the Aquino regime.
Farmer-beneficiaries of Hacienda Luisita march from Tarlac to Manila to press for the immediate distribution of Hacienda Luisita land, as ordered by the Supreme Court. This video shows the hardships the farmworkers undergo to attain justice, despite the nearly insurmountable odds ranged against them by those who control the vast landholding—the family of President Benigno Aquino—who, according to the farmers, use legalities and the government's coercive forces to delay and eventually keep Hacienda Luisita under their control. But the farmworkers are not to be denied. Aside from pressing their right to land, they have already started tilling the land they say belongs to them by law and by moral right.
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