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Gov’t should deliver cash subsidies it owes 3.8M poor families in GCQ areas
April 30, 2020
The government announced that it will ‘reprioritize’ social amelioration to only the areas retained under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and will ‘discontinue’ in declared general community quarantine (GCQ) areas.
On 7th week of lockdown: 10M worker and informal earner households still waiting for emergency subsidies
April 28, 2020
NEWS
A month-and-a-half into lockdown, millions of workers and informal earners grapple in uncertainty as the government’s social amelioration program and Department of Labor and Employment aid are failing to reach them.
A glimpse at the critical state of the Philippine environment
April 27, 2020
While nations attempt to meet the sustainable development goals, neoliberalism has spearheaded the unbridled destruction of the environment.
Duterte govt can end lockdown sooner and help every Filipino in need
April 24, 2020
STATEMENT
The country must deal with the pandemic, and the Duterte administration has the responsibility and obligation to ensure that this is done humanely and compassionately.
Gov’t Php1.5T COVID-19 response strategy bloated, misleading
April 23, 2020
NEWS
The Duterte administration continues to be misleading about its COVID-19 response strategy. A closer look shows that the government is not actually spending as much as it claims.
In the time of COVID: Hello, Earth
April 22, 2020
Today marks the 50th year of the commemoration of Earth Day. Environmental activists vow that it will not just be a day but a movement. But in as much as we would want to manifest this human solidarity in a rally and mass gathering, we cannot – we are on our sixth week of a […]
The pre-COVID-19 plight of the poor and government’s old ways
April 22, 2020
BIRD FEED
Doesn’t the plight of the poor tell us that something is wrong with the way things are and needs fixing? That relief for millions of vulnerable households is still taking too long to arrive now that there is a public health emergency bares government’s long-standing unconcern for them.
Why do we keep on begging China for friendship?
April 21, 2020
BY ROSARIO GUZMAN
In the face of the Filipino people’s growing anxieties about COVID-19 and life after the lockdown, president Duterte keeps heaping praises on China.
On the sixth week of lockdown: Millions of Filipinos going hungry, suffer amid worst mass unemployment in history
April 21, 2020
NEWS
Millions of Filipinos are going hungry and suffering the worst mass unemployment in the country’s history as the sixth week of lockdown begins.