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Mga pamilyang apektado ng demolisyon, wala pa ring nakukuhang aksyon

Sa kabila ng banta sa kalusugan ng mga mamamayan, nananatili pa rin sa labas at walang masilungan ang 107 mga pamilya sa Sampaloc, Manila.

“Sabi ng (gubyerno) pumasok sa bahay, saan kaming papasok na bahay? Dati may kubo kami, sinira lang nila, tas ngayon tinatanong namin, saan namin patutulugin ang mga bata?”, ani ni Benjie Subillano, isa sa mga nawalan ng tirahan dahil sa demolisyon.

Dinimolish ng pamahalaan, nitong nagdaang buwan, ang mga bahay sa gilid ng kalsada sa Barangay 432, Sampaloc, Manila. Ito ay sakop ng clearing operation na isinagawa sa lugar. Kahit nasa 217 na ang bilang ng mga nagpostibo sa COVID-19 sa bansa, wala pa ring nakukuhang aksyon ang mga biktima ng demolisyon.

Bidyo ni Arrem Alcaraz/Kodao

107 pamilya sa Sampaloc, Manila, walang matuluyang bahay

Ni Sanafe Marcelo

Sinasabi ng gobyerno na manatili lamang sa bahay ang taumbayan dahil sa banta ng COVID-19 sa bansa. Ngunit ang tanong ng 107 pamilya sa Barangay 432 Zone 44 District 4 Sampaloc, Manila, paano sila papasok ng bahay kung wala naman silang bahay?

Kuha ni Sanafe Marcelo

Ayon kay Benjie Subillano, isang street vendor, binuwag o dinemolis ang bahay noong Pebrero 19 kaya nagtitiis na lamang sila na sa kalsada natutulog.

Kuha Ni Sanafe Marcelo

Dagdag ni Subillano na hindi sila natatakot sa COVID-19 dahil ang mas ikinatatakot nila ay ang kawalan ng pagkain. Wala na nga raw silang bahay ay wala pa silang hanapbuhay dahil sa lockdown. Nangangamba siya na higit na maaapektuhan ang kanilang mga anak at tiyak ang kagutuman ang haharapin ng kanyang pamilya.

Panawagan ni Subillano sa pamahalaan na sana ay matulungan sila na bigyan ng maayos na relokasyon. Aniya , “Hindi naman kami hayop, tao din kami na nahihirapan din.” #

Pag-aresto sa maraming aktibista, kinondena

Mariing kinundena ng Bagong Alyansang Makabayan at iba pang aktibistang organisasyon ang pag-aresto sa mga kapwa nilang aktibista sa Lungsod ng Bacolod at Maynila kamakailan.

Nagprotesta sa harapan ng Camp Crame ang mga aktibista upang ipanawagan ang agarang pagpapalaya sa 57 indibidwal na anila’y iligal na inaresto. (Bidyo ni Jek Alcaraz/Kodao)

Joma asks Isko: ‘What are your plans for the poor vendors?’

Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairperson Jose Maria Sison asked Manila Mayor Isko Moreno his plans for the poor vendors of Manila who many fears are being swept aside in the ongoing campaign to clear the capital city’s streets of obstruction.

In a video message shown at the end of Moreno’s speech before the Rotary Club of Manila at the New World Hotel in Makati City last Wednesday, Sison asked if Moreno is looking after the poor vendors.

“I have only a simple concrete question: No doubt that it is highly commendable that you have cleared the major streets of Manila of the graft-laden anarchy of vendors. But are there provisions for the poor vendors to peddle their goods in some permissible areas or to have alternative means of livelihood?” Sison asked.

Moreno gamely replied to the question, addressing Sison as “Manong Jo,” an honorific used by both government and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace negotiators.

“What we did was to clear the backbone of the city. Then ang tinatanong po ni Manong Jo, saan natin inilagay ang mga naapektuhan ng pag-aayos? Sila yung inilagay natin sa mga…side street,” Moreno said.

“That is why, when you go to Quiapo, when you pass by Carriedo, open ang Plaza Miranda. You can see Hidalgo and Villalobos, naroroon ang mga mahihirap natin na nagtitinda,” the mayor said.

“So sa inyo ang Carriedo, ang Plaza, sa gilid naman ang mga vendor,” he added.

Before winning in last May’s election, Moreno served as an NDFP peace consultant for the urban poor in its peace negotiations with the Duterte government in 2016 and 2017.

In 2018, Moreno was appointed by President Duterte as Department of Social Welfare and Development assistant secretary.

Screen-grabbed from Isko Moreno’s FB page.

In his video message, Sison recalled it was him who introduced Moreno and Rotary Club of Manila president Jackie Rodriguez in The Netherlands at the time of the fourth round of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines-NDFP peace negotiations in 2017.

Rodriguez is a prominent businessperson from Davao City.

“I wish that they would help each other to bring changes for the benefit of the people of Manila,” Sison said. Sison also recalled another connection between himself, Moreno and Rodriguez in the late showbusiness icon German Moreno who groomed the young actor into stardom early in his acting career.

“I wish to share with ‘Ka Isko’ the fact that German Moreno, or Kuya Germs, his adopted father, was a classmate of Jackie and myself in Letran,” Sison said.

Sison also congratulated Moreno in his “resounding success” in becoming Manila mayor.

“In so short a time, he has done so much to impress the people of Manila and the entire Philippines with his determination and effectiveness in serving the people,” Sison said. # (Raymund B. Villanueva)

PHOTOS: “Hesu Kristo Magsasaka”

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(Photos by Amel Sabangan)

The group “Artists for Kidapawan”  performed around downtown Manila last April 30 to dramatize their support for the victims of the violent dispersal of protesting farmers in North Cotabato four weeks ago.  The artists performed dances and tableaux at Plaza Miranda, Recto, Bustillos, Morayta and España.

In preparation for Labor Day today, the artists also performed in front of malls, which are said to be the main practitioners of labor-only-contracting among workers.

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WEBSTREAMING: Martsa Amianan and Manilakbayan 2015 meet at Mendiola

Indigenous peoples from Northern Luzon have arrived in Metro Manila to meet with indigenous peoples from Mindanao Island at Mendiola to start their protest actions against the ongoing Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Manila.

Indigenous tribes in the Philippines are resisting foreign and large-scale mining encroachments in their ancestral domains that bring with them killings, harassment and other human rights violations.

Watch this Kodao Productions web-streaming of the events as they unfold since before dawn today.