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"The use of search warrants have become a trend increasingly used in Negros, which makes offices and individuals vulnerable to the planting of evidence."
Gabriela condemned the arrest and called for the immediate release of Agovida and Bartolome.
"We will die fighting against the dam project. We will not leave our communities."
“We only want to farm in peace. When the military arrests the people they should be protecting, who do they really serve?”
Over 600 indigenous Mangyan families have been forced to evacuate from their homes in Victoria and Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro due to military operations including low-altitude strafing and bombing.
One of the supreme ironies in the history of protest movements is the fact that Chile, a US laboratory for covert action and direct military aggression is also the place in which the slogan "¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!” (The people united will never be defeated) originates. It is chanted by peoples in protests and meetings which honor revolutionary international solidarity.
“I’m so, so glad to have Brandon back—but we’re not done yet. An outpouring of love and support moved mountains to make this transport happen, but we have mountains yet to move."
The Left’s primary source of support and inspiration is the fighting masses. Their conditions reflect the failure of the current system to end poverty, hunger, landlessness, and inequality which vindicate the need for a revolutionary struggle.
“The NBP is a prison facility, not a cemetery.”
The 4Ps program was supposed to provide youths like Eugene the opportunity to fulfill their dreams and help lift their families from poverty. But another government program, the antidrug campaign, has dimmed those hopes.
At least one in five victims of drug-related killings in Metro Manila in 2016 and 2017 were beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
The demolition comes as the latest in a series of operations conducted by Royal Moluccan Realty Holdings, Inc. (RMRHI), beginning in early 2018.
Notices of demolition were not signed by any judge and were posted a few days before the actual demolition.
"Once totally fed up, farmers could actually lead a peasant uprising in the countryside that is directed at Duterte," said Danilo Ramos, chairperson of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas.
Sa panahong pinipiga ang mga ahensya ng pamahalaan na nagbibigay serbisyong panlipunan sa mga mamamayan sa pambabarat sa kanilang badyet, pati na ang di pagbibigay ng umento sa mga guro at pagtatanggal sa mga kontraktwal na mga nars at kawani dahil sa kulang sa perang pampamahalaan - patuloy pa rin ang mararangyang piging at mga byahe Pangulo at ng mga kaalyado nito.
“In these times, those who do good and stand for what is right are persecuted. It [this administration] is sowing fear because it rules by fear. This must be opposed in whatever form and whenever it occurs."
“If we don’t fight now, when we grow up, we won’t have anything to fight for because it’s already too late.”
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