By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – For Rosalinda Sauro, 50, you do not have to be a driver to feel the effects of ceaseless oil price hikes. This president of a local chapter at Kapalaran Village, Quezon City, of the Gabriela Women’s Partylist (GWPa), said most people in their community are also complaining of increasing…
Category: Urban Poor
Public Private Partnerships in education, health ‘more costly’– ACT Teachers Party
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“The financial cost of repaying the capital investment of Private Finance Initiative investors is therefore considerably greater than the equivalent repayment of direct government investment.” – England’s House of Commons Treasury Committee
Urban poor group urges Aquino to pursue talks with NDFP, address roots of poverty
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — An urban poor group said it is high time for the government to take the peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines seriously and to look into the Comprehensive Agreement on Socio-Economic Reforms (Caser) as an opportunity to address the roots of poverty in…
Photo of the Week: Poverty in black and white
This photo of a Muslim community in Quiapo shows poverty and government neglect in graphic detail. Ever wonder why there is an ongoing armed conflict raging in Mindanao, as well as all over the country? Photo by Justin Lapid (Bulatlat.com)
Aranetas’ land claim turned residents’ hopes and dreams into nightmare
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Literally, Pangarap Village is the fulfillment of the dreams of the residents. The land was awarded to them in 1973 by then president Ferdinand E. Marcos. But the Aranetas came back to once more stake its claim to the land, emboldened by a Supreme Court order in 1988 and the ascension to power of one of their own Mar Roxas.
SECOND PART: Aquinos and Aranetas conspiring vs ‘land to the landless’ and the urban poor
Aquinos and Aranetas conspiring vs ‘land to the landless’ and the urban poor
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com FIRST PART: Aranetas’ claim to the their land turn residents’ hopes and dreams into a nightmare (Second of two parts) Fortades and Gomez were killed when the security guards of Araneta’s Carmen Development Inc., allegedly drunk, opened fired at the vigil site set up by the residents protesting the…
Residents of San Roque remain vigilant amid threat of demolition
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Residents of Sitio San Roque in Quezon City remain vigilant even after Mayor Herbert Bautista have extended the deadline for the demolition of their homes. “It is hard to be poor because we are always neglected by our government,” Pilar Angeles, 82, more commonly known as Nanay…
Urban poor group counters WB positive report on CCT
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap dismissed the recent report the World Bank (WB) released jointly with the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid) on the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, formally known as Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps. Malacang said the WB-AusAID report “validates what…
QC urban poor slam Ayala, NHA for impending demolition
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Residents of San Roque subvillage, Pag-asa, North Triangle in Quezon City held a protest actio in front of the UP-Ayala Land Techno Hub, Friday, vowing to fight the impending demolition of their community. City administrator Victor Endriga announced recently that the National Housing Authority (NHA) will evict 9,000…
Urban poor group slams Aquino gov’t for continuing CARPER, CCT scheme
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Blame the lack of genuine agrarian reform in the country for the increasing number of urban poor and worsening urban poverty. Blame the Aquino government for continuing disastrous programs implemented by the previous administration. On the second anniversary of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program with Extension and…
Relocated urban poor in Montalban fear typhoon Juaning
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 roof-high flood that savaged the Montalban relocation sites in 2009 when Typhoon Ondoy ravaged the country. Montalban relocation…