By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
A new poverty index that reconfigured the method of determining the extent of poverty in the Philippines has been criticized as deceptive and can be exploited by the government to declare that life has become better under the Aquino administration, critics said the other day.
Cardboard Dreams
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA — The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) condemned the harassment of members of progressive media outfit Tudla Productions Group Inc. by the local police during the January 25 demolition of an urban poor community in barangay (village) Corazon de Jesus, San Juan City. Godson…
Media workers of an independent audio-visual group decried the harassment by the local police during the violent demolition of an urban-poor community in San Juan, Metro Manila.
MANILA — Residents of Brgy. Corazon de Jesus in San Juan and their supporters marched to Don Chino Roces Bridge in Manila on January 28, to protest the violent demolition of their community on January 25 and to challenge President Benigno Aquino III to conduct a swift investigation. (Photo by Tudla Productions / bulatlat.com)
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Way before Tuesday’s demolition of the houses owned by informal settlers in Corazon de Jesus, a poor community in San Juan City, the former mayor and now congressman, JV Ejercito, had declared that the US White House was the inspiration for the new city hall that he would like to build in his city.
*alay sa mga mamamayan ng Barangay Corazon de Jesus sa ‘Dakilang Lungsod ng San Juan’ na puwersahang pinaalis sa kani-kanilang tahanan. Demolis ‘Tinaboy nila kayo: sa tahanan, ‘nilayo para lang maitayo Ni Guia ‘tong palasyo. –Berlin P. Flores Enero 28, 2011 Lungsod ng Mandaluyong **** Oda sa Balite Sa malalabay mong sanga nagsasangandaan ang mga…
By RICHARD R. GAPPI Bulatlat.com At the town’s main hub will stand high-rise buildings, luxury resorts and a new hall that will mark heads and pockets with “THIS IS SAN JUAN: A GREAT TOWN,” at the expense of helpless babies and kids suffocated by the demolitionists’ tear gas. How many feeding bottles were dropped? How…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK | The Pinaglabanan residents did not need my tears. They needed help. And if reporting about their struggles and exposing what they had to go through could help, why would I deny it to them?
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