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"Marcos Jr.'s top priorities are not in sync with what poor Filipinos need – lowering of prices of food and basic commodities, wage hike, contractualization, affordable housing, end to human rights violations and extra-judicial killings, and resumption of peace talks."
“The intent to distribute lands free of charge is ineffective at best and duplicitous at worst, in the absence of a new agrarian reform law that will allow the coverage of new private agricultural lands for distribution after CARP's mandate to do so expired in 2014."
“The form and name is new, but basically, what we were 50 years ago is the same with what we are today."
Quezon City is among the world’s largest cities that will be exposed to severe flooding and drought. But families residing in urban poor communities like Tatalon are not getting sufficient help.
In the motion, Bulatlat argued that the memorandum filed by the NTC “is a content-based prior restraint on protected expression, which is unconstitutional” and Bulatlat “suffered from grave injustice or irreparable injury” from the implementation of the website blocking.
“We want to hear and see how President Marcos Jr. will address [the] classroom and teacher shortages."
"It's not just because of the Duterte administration, it's because of decades of accumulating policies which started during the Marcos dictatorship."
The wrongs of history have to be told and re-told, so we rid our future of costly mistakes. This is why I see this movement as very timely, very important and very necessary. The movement will be a collective process and effort to perpetuate eyewitness testimonies of a horrific past."
“With its scare-tactics, the PNP is only succeeding in showing the world that it is a notorious human rights violator. It affirms why the US Congress voted to deny aid for the PNP because of its terrible human rights record. Let the world see the brutality and intolerance of the PNP under a second Marcos regime."
With the memorandum submitted last week before the Bulacan court, the case is now deemed up for resolution.
The student activist who was denied of enrollment after her university accused her of being a recruiter for "terrorist groups" has volunteered to teach Makati City’s urban poor during the pandemic.
“The ATC is neither an indispensable nor a necessary party in this case as it does not have any involvement in the issuance of the assailed Memorandum,” said Bulatlat, pointing out that parties of interest are already impleaded as defendants in the case.
The blocking of the websites occurred in the context of incessant red-tagging.
“Even after his administration has ended, Duterte's terror persists and has been passed down to the current, including, among other things, extensive trumped up charges, unlawful detentions, and other human rights violations."
Progressives reiterated their demands and challenges to Ferdinand Marcos Jr. yesterday, July 16, in a gathering dubbed as the "People's Summit: Tunay na Pagkakaisa para sa Tunay na Pagbabago."
Priests and Levites were the good guys. They were models of society in word and deed. They were expected to help the wounded: their fellow Jew, on that “bloody way” connecting Jerusalem to Jericho. But they did not.
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