At a time when Filipino families are being told to stay at home, urban poor families in Intramuros said they have not received any relocation program at all. Residents also lamented that the Manila police has been assisting the private company in carrying out the demolition.
The building which the museum currently occupies was a former monastery of the Order of St. Augustine or Augustinians, the first Catholic religious order to set foot in the Philippines. Augustinian missionaries from Mexico were brought along by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in his expedition to the Philippines to colonize the archipelago during the expansion of the Spanish Empire.
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BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Bulatlat.com August 22, 2008 – 3:15 p.m. For joining a rally to protest alleged unfair labor practices, casual employees of the Intramuros Administration were threatened with dismissal. Ma. Ana Harper, chief of the Intramuros Administration said she would give casual employees a non-renewable 30-day contract for joining the rally organized by…