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An additional 1.34 million Filipinos are pushed to poverty due to the oil price shocks since the United States and Israel’s aggression on Iran, a study revealed.
Piston said fuel prices and maintenance costs have become significantly higher than in October 2023, when current fares were set, widening the gap between operating expenses and daily earnings.
The loss of fishing grounds due to reclamation and urban development without community consultation has forced some small-scale fisherfolk to fish outside their municipalities.
“If adequate support is not provided, fish production and the country's food security are at serious risk."
“If this demolition pushes through, I will lose customers and the livelihood I inherited from my family. Being relocated would also mean more expenses for commuting and for transporting the food I sell.”
"They should not accommodate 500 persons only in a day because they have a lot of stock. We did not ask for rice; we will buy it from them."
“It is important that the government increases the daily minimum wage of the Filipino workers."
The fight is about whether migrant workers can speak out without losing their jobs, housing and right to stay.
Policies favor private corporations over public welfare, further marginalizing women.
“Without price controls and the repeal of deregulation policies, these measures merely create an illusion of control."
Absence of concrete price control mechanisms leaves transport workers, farmers, fisherfolk, and low-income households vulnerable to what it described as “war-driven oil shock."
Assistance is insufficient to offset the effects of rising fuel prices on agricultural production.
Aside from the abolition of regional wages, KMU is pushing for immediate economic relief for the workers and the junking of regressive taxes on oil, food, and basic social services.
According to the groups, suspending the excise tax is a mere “temporary fix” when people’s organizations had long been calling for the repeal of the Oil Deregulation Law to regulate the prices of oil and other petroleum products.
Without government intervention, public utility drivers will continue to bear the brunt of rising fuel prices as their daily earnings steadily decline.
Jeepney drivers and Filipino consumers do not have to be at the mercy of oil companies. The oil industry does not have to be deregulated. Oil prices can be controlled. The government does not have to be useless.
The study of aquatic resources cannot be divorced from the communities whose survival depends on them.
“There’s no way that I’ll exchange my son’s life for just mere money. I told them they just need to find my son no matter what.” – a father of one of the missing individuals
Vendors said proceeded without prior consultation or notice.
Even to this day, residents express outrage because of low to no water connection in several areas in Malaybalay City, yet monthly bills continue
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