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Let us be the feet of God, go to those who are in need. Let us be the hands of God, share and give whatever little that you have to those who are most in need. Let us be the mouthpiece of God, denounce that which brings pain and sorrow to our brothers and sisters in the margins.
Forest biodiversity plays a huge role in disease control by promoting good microbiota that compete with the disease-causing pathogens, and flora and fauna that compete with or predate on virus-carrying species to keep their populations in check.
Our hope lies in how we will face the pandemic not as mask-wearing individuals but as a group promoting medical measures, social reforms, and democratic rights. The pandemic demands medical attention, the crisis requires collective political action.
This is the time to act. This is the time to embrace those suffering in the fringes of society. A time to rise up.
Neoliberal ideology marks the class struggle as a thing of the past. We are in the era of post-politics, as it were. No more class struggle, no more revolution, there is nothing to redistribute at a time when productivity is at its highest in the whole history of capitalism. Yet class struggle is raging in the peripheries and semi-colonies. That people are massively incarcerated, abused, brutalized by the police, rendered homeless with no access to health care and proper nutrition is also a sign of class struggle, especially considering how Occupy America’s one percent thrives precisely because of all that human misery.
This is why it is important to equate “poor” with “vulnerable.” Why, the most oppressed and exploited are also the most organized and politicized. More than ever, it is crucial for the ruling elite and their imperialist masters to deny that landless peasants, wage workers, informal workers and the unemployed wield the power of conceptual thought within the context of a protracted people's war for national liberation and socialism.
Pinakita sa kasaysayan ang trahedyang idinudulot ng krisis pangkalusugan sa mga pinakabulnerableng mga mamamayang nahahayag sa pagkakasakit kung walang pagpapahalaga ang lipunan sa kanilang kapakanan.
Subalit sa halip na maging bukas sa pagpapahayag sa aktwal na kalagayan ng bayan sa usaping pangkalusugan, binansagan pa ng mga nasa pamahalaan ang mga naglalathala ng katotohanan bilang mga filibustero at kalaban ng bayan. Hindi naging bukas sa paggamit ng mga siyentipikong pag-aaral, ginamit lamang ng mga nasa pamahalaan ang mga hakbanging despotiko at absolustimo nang hindi tumatanggap at sarado sa ibang ideya.
If the internet is a weapon of mass distraction, media streaming is the precision missile targeting citizens in search of escape and lazy fun. This is the extra dose supplied by the media industry after lockdowns have been enforced across the world as we battle a pandemic and an economic recession.
Sa pagsiklab ng pandemic, ang kawalan ng kakanyahan ng mga pamahalaang umasa sa pribatisasyon ang nagdala sa paglala ng krisis ng kalusugang pambayan.
Hindi malinaw ang pagbibigay ng impormasyon at sistema ng komunikasyon sa mga taong maaaring magkasakit kaya lumawak ang maraming maling impormasyon ukol sa ginagawa ng pamahalaan. Walang pagsasaalang-alang sa kabuhayan ng mga tao sakaling magkaroon ng malawakang kwarantenas sa mga naaapektuhang lugar.
Sa pamumuno ni Lorena Barros, inilunsad ng MAKIBAKA ang maraming protesta laban sa kahirapan at para sa demokratisasyon ng lipunan. Tiningnan nilang hindi pa malaya ang sambayanan at dominante pa rin ang mga dayuhan at mayayaman sa lipunan. Higit pa roon, binigyang diin niil na hindi magiging ganap ang kalayaan hangga’t hindi pa napalalaya ang lipunan.
Malinaw sa ganitong pahayag na kung nanaisin, makikita talaga ng historyador ang mga kababaihan; maisusulat ang kanilang mga pahayag sa sariling pananalitang kanilang ginamit; maipapahayag ang tinig ng pakikisangkot, at malilinaw na hindi tinitingnan ang pagkilos na nakalimita lamang sa mga usaping pribado at pambahay, kundi mga usaping publiko at pambayan.
With no substantive discussion on the broad array of Oceanagold’s rights violations of commission, omission, and lack of due diligence, the hearing resulted in a sham proceeding that served as nothing but the latest stunt of Oceanagold to worm out of its track record of violations and injustices. It became their platform to call for the renewal of its Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement, which expired eight months ago and its renewal challenged precisely because of the mine’s plethora of violations.
Nauulit sa mga leksyon ng Influenza Pandemic ng 1918 ang kasalukuyang hamon na kinakaharap ng daigdig ukol sa COVID 19. Tila nagiging hadlang ang di maagap na pagtugon ng pamahalaan sa pagkalat ng sakit. Ang pagtapyas sa badyet sa kalusugan; ang kakulangan ng personnel at pasilidad na haharap sa pagkalat ng sakit; ang turuan at sisihan ng mga pinuno sa kung sino ang dapat na responsable sa pangunguna sa pagsugpo nito; ang racistang pananaw sa pagkakasakit; at ang kakulangan sa pagkilala sa epektibong sistema ng kwarantena ang tila nag uulit sa panganib sa kabuuan ng populasyon sa pagkalat ng sakit.
The occupant of Malacanang Palace is always the most rabid and notorious redbaiter-in-chief. Duterte has his own uncouth style but his ranting is no different from former presidents who used their privilege to attack critics and activists.
The plight of the Tacloban 5 is but the latest case in a deepening human rights crisis faced by people working to protect their lands, the environment, and our climate. The Philippines was declared the deadliest country in the world for environmental defenders in 2019.
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