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While not a guarantee to lower prices in the long run, opening up the rice sector to unbridled imports leaves the country’s rice security at the mercy of an unpredictable and increasingly unreliable world market. This happens as 95 percent of Philippine rice imports come from just two countries whose own domestic production is either slowing down or declining. Globally, rice production has been steadily decelerating in the past four decades.
Price increases are to be expected as the country’s staple food will be solely at the hands of the profit-oriented private sector.
'There is no real rehabilitation if the Manila Bay ends up with profit-driven corporations.'
Patay na ang Contractual King pero patuloy ang legasiya ng sistemang kontraktwal sa loob ng SM. 99% ng kanilang mga manggagawa ay contractual kaya mas dapat i-expose ang kabulukan ng sistemang ito.
“The proposed legislation aims nothing but to put the blame on children in conflict with the law and punish them behind bars.”
“The release of Baylosis is a victory, but hundreds more remain languishing in jails across the country. Along with the kin of political prisoners, other human rights advocates, and human rights lawyers, we will continue to work for the dismissal of charges against trumped-up charges against political prisoners."
“There are many ways those ‘hostaged’ passport data may be used to the disadvantage of the owners of the data.”
While the domestic and international currents tend to make a person pessimistic, hope abounds. For young activists, the previous year has three lessons that may be used to further uphold people’s rights, interests, and welfare.
“Baylosis’s defense poked holes into their story, pointed out not only lapses but grievous procedural mistakes, and thus exposed concerted, malicious efforts to fabricate the charges.”
The attacks against the Catholic Church are not said "out of concern or just personal rancor" but to stop the "people from uniting and putting an end to his wicked and bloodthirsty puppet regime" as church workers are working on uniting the Filipinos to “wield their collective power to gain collective good.”
Love also holds the key to survive a ‘Groundhog Day’ in Congress. Love in the form of knowledge that what matters most is the movement of people working for social transformation outside the halls of Congress.
State workers blame the delay in budget approval on government officials "asserting their selfish interest and also on wrong budget policies."
“The mass killings are meant for mass intimidation! Not just in the drug war, but in the war against authoritarianism, in the war against poverty, and in the war against political dynasties and perpetuation of this system of injustice.”
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