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"No smugglers were charged with criminal charges. This only proves that there are untouchables who spearhead the extensive agricultural smuggling in the country." ....
(Photo from Amihan Women / Facebook) 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. ....
(Photo from Amihan Women) Tasic, 55, a councilor of Barangay Hanopol Norte, was killed by two unidentified gunmen on Tuesday morning, Feb. 16. Amihan Women mourned the death of Tasic and called for the termination of Anti-Terror Law and other state policies “authorizing extra-judicial killings, illegal arrests, and detention, and red-tagging, and other forms of human rights violations.” “Moreover, before her death, she was constantly harassed and red-tagged by Duterte’s state forces and forced to clear her name and quit the organization,” Zenaida Soriano, National Chairperson of Amihan, said. The peasant leader also urged the public to condemn the killing of Lucresia and other EJK victims and to hold Duterte and his state forces accountable. ....