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“Building resilience and adaptive capacity of the poor to climate change should therefore include providing living wages, regular jobs, more viable livelihood and social services to the poor.”
“It is because of poverty that they do not have enough capacity to purchase materials and equipment to ensure their safety in times of disaster.”
Seven out of ten Filipinos rate themselves as poor, according to the latest survey of independent think tank Ibon Foundation.
“People who make a living selling cooked food and making shrimp paste complain that their customers stopped buying their wares because of the coal dust.”
Kadamay said 16 urban poor leaders had been killed under the Aquino administration. The latest victim, Benilda Santos, was shot dead in Quezon City on May 22.
"The government prioritizes private business ventures instead of appropriating lands for affordable housing projects.”
“We are not criminals! We are humans and we have the right to livelihood!”
People who held vigil at the Indonesian embassy for Mary Jane Veloso are just like her, hopeful to find better lives, and justice.
“End the calvary of the people. Aquino should resign.”
The demolition of homes in North Triangle is among the cases that would be filed against President Aquino in the coming International People’s Tribunal in Washington DC in July.
A United Nations agency has responded to the complaint by urban poor victims who suffered from “one of the most violent demolitions” in the country.
"We will be watchful in the coming days if the Aquino administration will make a paradigm shift in its programs especially those that concern the urban poor sector."
A new play on Carmen “Nanay Mameng” Deunida will show who she was before she became an activist.
From Luzon to Mindanao, urban poor relocatees tell stories of hunger, worsening poverty and desperation.
“Where do they want us to sleep? Where do they want us to live?”
"I would have never been an activist if the government did not tear down our homes." -- Estrelieta Bagasbas, chairwoman of September 23 Movement
Thousands of residents affected in flooded relocation sites in Montalban.
“Residents have endured the decrepit state of the buildings, which should have been maintained by the NHA but the residents have in fact been doing the needed repairs themselves. Now, they have been told that the housing complex is condemned without conclusive scientific tests to back the local government’s claim.” – Gabriela
“Aquino has opened the country’s economy for the benefit of big foreign businesses. He would even give them tax incentives. But we, Filipinos, are not getting the same. What would happen to us?”
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