“Our protest today symbolizes our disgust for the current rotten system.”
Youths burn Apec logo
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Lumád camp to be kicked out of Liwasang Bonifacio on Nov. 13
“We are being driven out of our ancestral lands, now, even here at Liwasang Bonifacio, we are also being evicted?”
#PHFightAPEC: ‘All roads lead to Manila protests’
“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 activists warn of Apec’s further commercialization of energy resources
“Climate change responses must benefit the poor foremost, not energy companies or corrupt politicians.”
Then & Now in APEC-induced ‘development’
“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.”
APEC govts’ designs on SMEs, women seen as a bane rather than a boon
“Women’s supposed domination of small and medium scale businesses do not prove inclusiveness and gender equality.”
For eroding PH economy, APEC 2015 dubbed as ‘unwelcome’ imposition
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.
12 Iloilo activists arrested in violent dispersal of UP protest
“Political repression remains a brutal reality for many Filipinos three decades after the fall of the Marcos dictatorship.”
Women protest APEC forum
“As the economic situation of the country worsens, so will women’s economic empowerment be non-existent.”