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The challenge to build genuine solutions to flood risk factors should not have been new to the administration of Rodrigo Duterte. These proposals were outlined already in the 2016 People’s Agenda for Nationalist and Progressive Change, a comprehensive 100-day agenda document hand-delivered to Duterte himself.
By bulatlat.com RODRIGUEZ, Rizal--As Tropical storm "Juaning" (international name: Nock-ten) made landfall in Casiguran, Aurora, some 3,000 families in government relocation sites at Kasiglahan Village Phase 1K and at neighboring areas fear for a repeat of the...
After Ondoy: The Road to Recovery
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Imelda Bondocoy lost her house and her sister-in-law when typhoon Ondoy struck the country last year. Fire and flood hit the urban poor community in Agno, Tatalon, Quezon City where Bondocoy lives. The Manila Electric Company did...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
When the hype about relief and relocation efforts for victims of Ondoy, especially the poor in vulnerable communities, had died down, the urban poor were left to rebuild their houses and their lives, without any outside assistance. A year after, they are in a worse state than before Ondoy hit the country.
Sidebar: Memories of Ondoy, Government Neglect Push Residents to Prepare Themselves
By MARYA SALAMAT
“It is a challenge to the Aquino administration to address the housing question holistically, beyond the low-cost housing projects peddled as the flagship program of the government,” GWP Rep. Emmi de Jesus says.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
When typhoon Basyang hit Metro Manila, the government was unprepared not only because the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) missed the prediction, but because it simply was not ready to respond to any disaster.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Justice, jobs, immediate relief, and a review of the government's housing program to make it more affordable are the most pressing concerns of the urban poor, said Kadamay.
Evacuees affected by the recent typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) and Pepeng (Parma) welcome the new year in evacuation camps in Brgy. Dos, Calamba in Laguna. Due to damages brought about by the typhoons, over 1,000 families are still displaced and live in crowded evacuation...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
While climate change is not a recent phenomenon and is a result of years of destructive practices, most Filipinos do not know much about it until recently. And it has been a hard lesson learned for many Filipinos as it took the destructive effects of typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng to drive home the point. The devastating effects of climate change are more intense in poor countries where majority of the people live in poverty.
By ARNOLD PADILLA
To a certain degree, Executive Order 839 questioned the lies long peddled by the oil companies and staunch defenders of neoliberalism about neoliberal free market economics. If left unchallenged, EO 839 could become a precedent in policy making: that the government, in the name of public good and welfare, could take decisive action against abusive corporations.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Even before they were rescued off their submerged villages, the government has blamed the approximately 80,000 poor families for the unprecedented flooding in Metro Manila.
By MAO HERMITANIO Contributed to Bulatlat.com Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng may have left the country last month but the need for relief and rehabilitation efforts have not subsided especially in Central Luzon provinces devastated by the surging flood. Volunteers of...
With their homes washed away by the flood, children in Ultra find ways to entertain themselves through improvised “toys.” (Photos by Janess Ann J. Ellao / bulatlat.com ) A sister taking care of her younger sibling as their parents leave them for a while to find...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
As if the trauma of losing their homes and belongings were not enough, evacuees at the PhilSports Arena, formerly known as the Ultra, faced more problems as the government seemingly backtracked on its promise to relocate the displaced families. Worse, the Pasig government allegedly had to use underhanded means to force the refugees to leave.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The Arroyo administration will have to work extra hard to prove that it is sincere in addressing climate change and its impacts. Signing the climate-change bill into law is one thing – approving the operation of coal-fired power plants, which have been identified as one of the dirtiest power-generation methods, makes a mockery of it.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
With the flooding after Ondoy and the blaming of poor peasants and fisherfolks around the Laguna de Bay, many in Pila, Laguna, fear that the demolition of their homes is now just a matter of time.
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New Year, More Challenges
