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Emergency power seen as mere excuse to plunder Malampaya funds anew
“The Department of Energy (DOE) has not sufficiently laid out the reason for emergency powers because as their own data show, there is enough power supply.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares
After the storm, what? | To the radical and unwavering conviction of the Martial Law activists
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
Chinese think-tank urges bilateral talks on territorial dispute
“I think China-Philippine relations would be different without US interference.” – Wu Shicun, National Institute for South China Sea Studies
First UN conference on indigenous peoples mum on self-determination, state violence
“If States are really in good faith in adopting the UNDRIP and adhering to international human rights standards, why did they not accept and consider our proposal and call for an end to militarization of indigenous peoples and their territories?” – Windel Bolinget, Cordillera Peoples Alliance
Makabayan bloc slams ‘budget blackmail’ by ruling party
“We should have an honest to goodness analysis of the national budget because we owe it to the Filipino people, who want the pork barrel system and lump sums abolished.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares
#NeverAgain | Groups call to end ‘Aquino dictatorship’
“The people will always resist. Aquino is treading the path of authoritarian rule by seeking a second term and by wanting to clip the powers of the Supreme Court while keeping Congress in his pockets.” — Renato Reyes Jr., secretary general of Bayan
‘People’s Climate March’ | Environmentalists troop to Mendiola
“The Aquino government is condemning us to a future of chronic extreme vulnerability to typhoons, storm surges, and other climate change-aggravated hazards failing in its mandates both in climate change adaptation and mitigation.” – Leon Dulce, campaign coordinator of Kalikasan PNE and 350.org Pilipinas
Ethics should be biased for the oppressed – UP protesters
“Civility and decorum at the height of social unrest and deprivation is consent to the existing status quo and a betrayal to the genuine essence of democracy, a very valuable lesson from the dark days of Martial Law. “ – Students’ Alliance for the Advancement of Democratic Rights in UP (Stand-UP)
Ailing political prisoner dies
“His death is the face of martial law in our country today. He suffered and died because of the cruelty and injustice of this government that speaks of ‘democracy’ but denies the rights of political prisoners.” – Cristina Guevarra, secretary general of Hustisya
For every one killed or disappeared, hundreds replace them – Edita Burgos
“It is amazing how, an injustice, whether this be an extrajudicial killing, an enforced disappearance or torture, gives birth to people who would have otherwise lived a different life, but had now taken up the cudgels for the killed, the disappeared and the tortured.” – Edita Burgos, mother of missing activist Jonas Burgos