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Despite the inspirational work that they do and the absence of government support for this grassroots initiative, they have been subjected to political vilification, surveillance, and harassment.
Ano ang hinaing ng maralita pagkatapos ng SONA at bagyong Carina?
Urban poor group Kadamay looked back on Ferdinand Marcos Jr's promises, and found that none has been fulfilled, including bringing down the price of rice to P20 per kilo.
The struggle for their right to housing taught them that they have bigger fights to win.
“The fear of getting caught and arrested during clearing operations has always been there. I have always felt the discrimination, not just because I am a Muslim woman, but because I am poor and without a decent job.”
The group estimates that the government will displace more than half a million urban poor families by 2020 to give way for its infrastructure projects. This, Kadamay said, makes the Duterte administration as the “biggest violators of housing rights of the urban poor.”
The artworks remind us that the poor of San Roque are human beings deserving of dignity.
“We wanted to know why up to now, thousands of housing units are still idle."
“The demands of the residents are legitimate and the local government unit as well as the national agencies concerned with housing programs could have engaged the residents in a more extensive and comprehensive dialogue so that violence could have been prevented.”
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“Pushing through with the demolition will only add to the number of homeless.”
“The present leadership of the various shelter agencies appears to be unable to veer away from “the long and bloody record of past administrations of flushing out so-called informal settlers from their communities to make way for big-ticket business or infrastructure projects usually under the pretext of development, city decongestion or even public safety.” – Anakpawis Rep. Ariel Casilao
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