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By MARYA SALAMAT
"Globally in the past ten years, the trend among countries is to put in restrictions and protection into their domestic economic policies; this is also true even among those who are pushing the Philippines to remove restrictions against foreign capital." – Sonny Africa, Ibon Foundation
Sidebar: Critics view cha cha as 10 times more disastrous than current typhoons
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Population control defeats the rights-based, health-based, pro-poor characteristics of the RH Bill. As we call for the removal of population control provisions in the RH bill, the retention of pro-poor provisions lifted from Gabriela’s Comprehensive RH bill is non-negotiable.” – GWP Rep. Luz Ilagan
By RONALYN V. OLEA
"President Aquino reminisces about his family’s sufferings under Martial Law, but he callously ignores the suffering of other families whose loved ones are jailed not under martial law, but under the Aquino government." -- Marie Hilao-Enriquez, Karapatan chairwoman
Sidebar: Ailing political prisoner dies in prison | Youth, artists 'plank' to commemorate martial law | Video: ‘Nothing has changed’ since martial law – Mrs. Burgos
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“For several decades now, even with these restrictions in place, foreign investors and multinationals repatriated billions of dollars in profits without any real and substantial contribution to the domestic economy and social development.” Rep. Luz Ilagan, Gabriela Women's Party
By MARYA SALAMAT
“This treaty and the US have not really helped in AFP modernization. It only enhanced its dependence and derogated Philippine sovereignty.” – Satur Ocampo
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Karapatan stressed that the president is capable of releasing political prisoners as he did when he released rebel soldiers. “All he has to have is the political will to release those who are wrongly imprisoned.” – Marie Hilao-Enriquez, Karapatan.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
"This PPP scheme for education and health will cost the taxpayers more because the government must guarantee the private sector partners’ return on investment." – ACT Teachers Party Rep. Antonio Tinio
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The video shows the war crimes committed by Nato, as well as those committed by the Western media, which has decided to obfuscate the casualties and human suffering of the Libyan people and uphold the humanitarian fiction of Nato's R2P mandate." – Professor Michel Chossudovsky
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“This is just the tip of the iceberg and there are still numerous items that have to be questioned because they are a goldmine for the unscrupulous and the corrupt." – Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"OFWs are still forced to go abroad because the government has offered them nothing substantive and sustainable to address their families's economic needs. Instead, what it has offered are mere dole-outs and band-aid solutions that does not do anything to address widespread unemployment and landlessness the root cause of forced migration." – Migrante International
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“It appears that the Arroyo policy of witch-hunting, arrest, criminalization of political offenses and/or the slapping of fabricated criminal charges to silence and put behind bars human rights defenders continues to be implemented under Aquino,” Angelina Ipong, Selda spokeswoman, said.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"We are like slaves! We are not being treated with respect and by ignoring our demands for a CNA the MMDA administration is stripping us of our dignity." MMDA streetsweepers
By MARYA SALAMAT
“You go to a public hospital emergency room to have your wound cleaned, you have to first buy some cotton, wound antiseptic, and dressings, before you can be treated,” said Joel Bitanga, 40, an X-ray technician in San Lazaro Hospital.
Sidebar: Health workers blame Aquino’s PPPs for further crippling the Philippine Orthopedic Center
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Human Rights Watch noted that while the public rhetoric of senior military officers has changed somewhat since Aquino took office, the change in language “has not yet been reflected in action.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
Comparing the local oil prices to that in other countries in the past years, Piston said the local pump prices have risen far more than the amount necessitated by price movements abroad and the peso-dollar exchange rate. The transport group continues to accuse the oil companies of overpricing oil products by “an average at least of P7.50 ($0.17) per liter.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“We will hold rallies to demand jobs, wages, land reform, human rights and national sovereignty. The rallies directed against the Sona aim to highlight various people’s issues that the incumbent administration must address." – Bayan
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The government says without the NPA, there would be peace. That is not true. It is the situation that gives life to the NPA.” – Coni Ledesma-Jalandoni
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Governments in Europe are responding to the world economic crisis by tightening control by the European Union and forcing an intensified implementation of neo-liberal measures to compete with the US. Hard-hit by these measures are the working people who are now rising up, conducting massive strikes and protest actions.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“When the war is being presented as a humanitarian endeavor, then that means that the lie has become the truth." – Michel Chossudovsky
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