Demolisyon

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Davao City sidewalk food vendors display the ready-to-eat, budget-friendly meals for the hungry locals along Ilustre Street. (davaotoday.com photo by Paul Anthony N. Crooks) Photo By Paul Anthony N. Crooks- davaotoday.com (Bulatlat.com)

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It has been said that the conditions of women and children reflect the extent of poverty in a country because they are the most vulnerable to it. But as the history of March 8, as well as that of other people’s struggles in history show, women could also be the face of the struggle. By [...]

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A modern day father and daughter walk past a traditional Chinese art figure rendered as a contemporary graffito at an old part of the Chinese capital. (Beijing, China)

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By BULATLAT MULTIMEDIA and KODAO PRODUCTIONS

NORTH TRIANGLE, Quezon City — Estrelieta Bagasbas, or Ka Inday as she is fondly called by colleagues, is a victim of land grabbing in South Cotabato, south of Philippines. She and her family had thus been forced to migrate to Manila. But like in South Cotabato, she is now facing threat of being displaced yet again, away from what have been second home, far from her source of livelihood and social services.

“Demolisyon” is a video-documentary on the struggle of Sitio San Roque residents against demolition and the gloomy future awaiting them in proposed relocation sites. It is the day-to-day life-scenario, too, of thousands of families in other urban poor communities all over the Philippines.