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By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In the early 1990s, the mantra of neoliberal economic globalization was “prosperity to the people of all nations without exception.” The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum has fostered the mantra...
Whether on the road, the net, or in the hinterlands, no one is spared by globalization.
“There are police left and right. Who are you serving, those dragons?”
“We call on the people to remain steadfast amid the escalating state repression in time for the Apec.”
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld From clearing Metro Manila’s thoroughfares of street vendors, parked cars, and sidewalk stalls to prevent the horrendous traffic jams that everyday make moving from one place to another torture for motorists and...
“APEC is only shaping a so-called ‘better’ world for the 1% of the richest and most powerful corporations and individuals."
“We condemn this latest Apec circus among imperialist powers agreeing to divvy up the wealth and military spheres of influence among themselves.”
“It would be much better if President Aquino alloted the budget in this summit for the modernization of government hospitals .”
"We oppose Apec and its schemes in robbing our country's natural resources, and essentially its future."
Workers buck APEC's claimed growth.
“Our protest today symbolizes our disgust for the current rotten system.”
“We are being driven out of our ancestral lands, now, even here at Liwasang Bonifacio, we are also being evicted?”
“The policy of globalization opens up our economy to trade and investment of big, foreign business, to be run as business and to benefit only the few, while majority are impoverished.”
“Climate change responses must benefit the poor foremost, not energy companies or corrupt politicians.”
“Joblessness has become more widespread, wages have become more depressed, contractualization has become more rampant, and trade-union rights have become more repressed. Juan and Juana dela Cruz became poorer and more frequently hungry.”
"Women's supposed domination of small and medium scale businesses do not prove inclusiveness and gender equality."
Progressives say APEC 2015 in the Philippines is just a costly gathering of government leaders to forge agreements that would further impoverish the masses of people in the Asia Pacific region.
"Political repression remains a brutal reality for many Filipinos three decades after the fall of the Marcos dictatorship.”
“As the economic situation of the country worsens, so will women's economic empowerment be non-existent.”
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