Young Fil-Ams form alliance for human rights, environment
“Hearing the problems of the lumads (Mindanao’s IPs), they really inspire you and put your problems in perspective."
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“Hearing the problems of the lumads (Mindanao’s IPs), they really inspire you and put your problems in perspective."
“Under DO 18-A, it has now become legal for companies to evade responsibility in giving workers their right to regular employment."
"What they did yesterday was, they showed a picture of how they violate human rights."
Tension rises as farmers assert their right to till in Salvador Benedicto town, Negros Occidental.
“If she wants to help, she should listen to us, because we experienced these abuses.”
Bystanders who seemed awed by the big number of marchers came out of their workplaces to take a glimpse of the march.
“The ‘NPAs’ the Army is pursuing could be farmer-leader Aida Seisa and her family.”
“We have been waiting all our lives for the government to build a school in our communities, but now that we are able to build schools with our own perseverance, why do they want to close it?”
“The communities, the parents, the students and the school are civilians but they now became the target of the insurgency operations of the government."
Parents and children walk for hours to attend their 'moving up ceremony' which was delayed by accusations of the military and paramilitary groups that the school is supposedly run by communist rebels. The school denied it.
“We are not criminals! We are humans and we have the right to livelihood!”
“This victory is a lesson to Sumifru and all capitalists that you cannot impose exploitative and unjust policies on your workers without facing resistance."
"There is no vacuum of leadership in BIFF."
"The Army trained and armed these militia men which, according to them, will help keep the peace and fight communist rebels, but now civilians became their victims.”
"The Moro civilian residents should not bear the brunt of the war of retaliation being waged by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the name of justice for the death of the SAF commandos.'
“We know the government would surely force us to accept the company by using force, but we will never give up our right to these resources.”
Union says its overall proposal would cost LBC just P3.15 million out of its accumulated net income of P56.85 million over the last two years.
The widows said that losing their husbands and the fathers of their children “weighed more than the thousands of bullets and armaments used in this continuing operations.”
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