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The group protested that due benefits and allowances under the Republic Act. No. 11469, or the “Bayanihan to Heal as One” Act, are yet to be received by health workers who at present are working tirelessly to respond to surging cases of COVID-19 in various hospitals.
The law alloted P13.5 billion for health-related responses.
“The abandonment of frontliner health workers by the Duterte regime, is the undisputed proof of its ‘criminal negligence and insincerity’ to resolve the pandemic crisis. While the whole population is unanimous in supporting the health workers, the ‘#DutertePalpak syndicate’ acts on the contrary, thus, it should be seriously held accountable,” Ariel Casilao, Anakpawis Party-list national president and former representative. said in a press statement.
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Spearheaded by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and Anakpawis Party-list, the “Ayuda sa Masa, Ibigay na!” petition demands P10,000 cash assistance and P15,000 production subsidy from the national government amid the “detrimental impact of pandemic and militaristic lockdown, neoliberal policies, calamities, and food crisis.”
“The peasant sector screamed for P15,000 production subsidy and P10,000 as social amelioration but was constantly neglected by the Duterte regime. The petition signing is part of our ‘Kalampag Kontra Kagutuman’ and will be part of the demand for the national protest of Filipino women on March 8 at Mendiola, Manila,” Amihan National Chairperson Zenaida Soriano said.
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The Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, rice watch group Bantay Bigas, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, Anakpawis Party-list and various organizations in Metro Manila held a protest in front of Department of Agriculture in Quezon City on Monday, Feb. 15.
In a statement, the Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women sought P15,000 production subsidy and P10,000 as social amelioration aid.
Amihan National Chairperson Zenaida Soriano said their demands were “constantly neglected” by the government.
“Nasaan ang ayuda?,” she said, citing the “phases” of socio-economic and climate crisis that the peasant women and their families have to endure, particularly the “detrimental impact” of the RLL.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Human rights group Karapatan slammed the recent arrests of activists, saying that crackdown on dissent is rapidly escalating.
Karapatan cited the series of arrests of leaders of people’s organizations in Caraga region, a barangay captain in Cagayan Valley and peasant leaders and human rights workers in Bohol.
Cristina Palabay, Karapatan’s secretary general said these arrests were “clearly devilish legal machinations being orchestrated by the rabid sycophants of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).”
In Mindanao region, 72 years old Isaias “Tatay Ising” Genorga, PISTON-Butuan City spokesperson, was arrested on Feb. 5 in barangay Doongan, Butuan City.
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‘Charter change is a desperate attempt to hold on to power, silence critics’
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
MANILA – Progressives said that the recent moves to amend the Philippine Constitution are “but a desperate attempt of President Rodrigo Duterte to hold on to power and silence critics.”
In a statement, ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro said she will not be surprised if fellow lawmakers will bring up the removal of term limits in the present charter, among other “self-serving interests.”
This is not the first time under the Duterte administration that lawmakers moved to amend the 1987 Philippine Constitution, which has been hailed as a product of the anti-dictatorship movement and contains safeguards against the rise of another tyrant.