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Crises and SupPRESSion

Crises and SupPRESSion. College Editors Guild of the Philippines-NCR July 15, 2011 | Philippine Normal University. As society is perpetually drowned with crises, the writer and the reader alike are also perpetually suppressed.

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Crises and SupPRESSion

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  1. Crises and SupPRESSion College Editors Guild of the Philippines-NCR July 15, 2011 | Philippine Normal University

  2. As society is perpetually drowned with crises, the writer and the reader alike are also perpetually suppressed. • Sectors of the society have looked back on Aquino’s first year as president of the Philippines and have gauged his promise of change. His first year, being the barometer of the people on how the following years will be like have clearly proven the inutility and incompetence of his administration. This has shattered the then high popularity rating of Aquino giving the avenue to the people to be disillusioned. Context

  3. Landless Tillers

  4. RepublikangHaciendero • 75 percent of the population • Colossal failure to address agrarian predicament • Distribution of Hacienda Luisita • 7 out of 10 farmers don’t have their own land to till • Land conversion and grabbing Landless Tillers

  5. Source: IBON Foundation Landless Tillers

  6. While the wage of farmworkers continues to intensify, agricultural, fishing and forestry corporations in the Top 1, 000 saw an increase in their income “more than three times from PhP 674 million in 2001 to PhP 2.3 billion in 2009. • The PhP 8 billion budget of the NFA was realigned for the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program “breeds the culture of mendicancy” as order by the World Bank. Landless Tillers

  7. Public Private Partnership Program, land grabbing and conversion • Land-grabbing does not only include their land, it also includes the displacement of thousands of families. • Subic-Clark-TarlacExpressway (SCTEX) and Sta. Rosa-Tarlac national road in Tarlac City and La Paz town; • the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Act of 2010 (APECO) in Casiguran; • the Food Basket project in Maria Aurora, Aurora province; • Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX) • North Luzon East Expressway (NLEX East), • Central Luzon Expressway (CLEX). Landless Tillers

  8. Under OplanBayanihan • 45 have been victims of extrajudicial killings, more than 50 percent of this are farmers Landless Tillers

  9. UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED

  10. As landlessness and harassment prevail in the countryside, Filipinos are forced to flock the cities for the hope of a better living condition and become the industry’s foundation- workers. UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED

  11. No statement on wage increase in his first SONA • 11.3 million Filipinos have no jobs • 9 out of 10 who have no jobs are high school and have reached the collegiate level • 51.1 % of this are aged 15-24 years old • Aquino says: job-skills mismatch and lack of education is the reason for the high unemployment rate UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED

  12. PhP 404 minimum wage • PhP 1, 010 daily standard cost of living for a family of six • 70% of the population are living with PhP 104 or less a day UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED

  13. UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED Source: Bayan

  14. Jeepney fares increased by PhP1 • Taxi flag down rate is at PhP40 • The almost tripled increase of NLEX and SLEX toll rates • The MRT/LRT fare hikes are also on its way. • Aquino said that there is nothing he can do to lower down the prices and that wage increase is not possible for private corporations will be broke. UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED

  15. The BIG 3 [Shell, Petron and Caltex] rakes in PhP 300 million excess profits every day • Forbes Asia recorded that the net income of the 25 richest Filipino is at US $ 21.4 billion or more than one trillion Pesos. • This is as big as the combined income of the poorest 55.4 million Filipinos. UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED

  16. UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED Source: IBON Foundation

  17. This backed by: • Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) • Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) • Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) • Makati Business Club (MBC) • Philippine Exporters Confederation (Philexport) • foreign chambers of commerce where people who mostly funded Aquino’s campaign belong. UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED

  18. The Philippine Airlines, owned by Lucio Tan, used the contractualization scheme to convert some 2, 600 regular PAL workers to contractual workers and dissolve the union. • ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation sacked more than 100 employees after the latter pushed for their rights. UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED

  19. Cases such as these are not new in the Aquino administration such as Nestle, Triumph, Pepsi, Advan, Com Foods, Razon’s and Absolute to name a few. • BPO, the sunshine industry • By July 1, 2011, all workers need to contribute for nine months before they could claim their benefit from Philhealth. • Dole plantation workers in South Cotabato and Lepanto mining corporations in Benguet are also victims of militarization and union busting. UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED

  20. On PPP • 1, 200 LRT employees are going to lose their jobs • Temporary jobs due to infrastructure projects UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED

  21. DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

  22. Due to lack of job opportunities in the country, Filipinos are forced to leave and look for greener pastures abroad giving the venue of having a new breed of workers – overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

  23. Calamities in New Zealand and Japan • Unrest in the Middle East-North African region DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

  24. Only 10 percent of OFWs in Libya were able to go home and this was not due to the assistance given by the Aquino administration • The administration permits OFWs to work in Syria and Bahrain and let them sign a waiver that they voluntarily went to the said countries despite the heightening conflict DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

  25. Saudization • Saudi nationals first policy • Foreign workers who have worked for more than six years will no longer be issued with working permits. • 350, 000 out of the 1.2 million OFWs in Saudi are expected to be affected. • 12 Filipino engineers were already terminated by a consultancy firm. • DOLE could only provide 54, 000 jobs here. DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

  26. 3 Filipinos sentenced with death penalty for being drug mules in China • All the administration said is that they have done what they could DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

  27. DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD Source: Migrante International

  28. Instead of giving proper assistance, OFWs are paid back with maltreatment from the government • Agnes Tenorio, Hong Kong domestic helper • NerissaNeri, raped and jailed in Saudi beyond her sentence DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

  29. OFW remittances reached $18 billion at the end of 2010 according to BangkoSentralngPilipinas • Budget cut • From PhP 19 billion, the budget was cut down to PhP 10.98 billion • Assistance to Nationals fund is PhP81.9 million • Legal Assistance Fund is PhP 27.3 million DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

  30. Apart from the remittances, maltreatment, neglect and budget cut, OFWs are also being milked dry by the government before they leave country. DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

  31. DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD Source: Migrante International

  32. Mandatory insurance coverage • e-Passport application overseas which is worth $60 (minimum) • Affidavit of Support in United Arab Emirates (UAE), Macau and selected countries in Europe • proposed social security coverage and proposed mandatory Pag-Ibig contribution. • With 1.6 million OFWs leaving every day, the government collects an estimated PhP 32.8 billion from the fees.   • The labor export policy of the country legitimizes the forced migration among Filipinos, leaving their families and children behind. DRYING MILKING COWS ABROAD

  33. MINI VICTIMS OF SUPPRESSION

  34. With more than 4, 000 OFWs leaving every day, 360, 000 children are left behind who are all vulnerable to violence and abuses MINI VICTIMS OF SUPPRESSION

  35. Children must always be seen as part of their sectors or class which they belong. The peasants, workers and urban poor communities comprise majority of the Filipino society. As their sectors suffer, so do children. MINI VICTIMS OF SUPPRESSION

  36. 60 percent of the working children who are aged 5 to 17 years old work in farms in the country. • Children of workers and urban poor become child laborers or street children due to extreme poverty and hunger. • At the end of the last quarter of 2010, there are 4.1 million hungry Filipino families • Almost half of the population or 46 million Filipinos are malnourished. MINI VICTIMS OF SUPPRESSION

  37. One to two children experience violence every hour • Every day, six to seven children are battered • Every day, nine are being raped. • Under the first six months of the Aquino administration, CRC has already recorded 953 violations which are counterinsurgency-related due to the OplanBayanihan. MINI VICTIMS OF SUPPRESSION

  38. MINI VICTIMS OF SUPPRESSION Source: Children’s Rehabilitation Center

  39. recruitment of minors to Civilian Armed Force and Geographical Unit (CAFGU) in San Juan, Batangas • Harassment of one family in Calinog, Iloilo resulting to the psychological instability of a young girl • Torture of a teenage boy in Marihatag, Surigao del Sur • Attack on the B’laan Literacy and Learning Center in Malapatan, Sarangani MINI VICTIMS OF SUPPRESSION

  40. MINI VICTIMS OF SUPPRESSION Source: Karapatan

  41. Cloaked as a low intensity approach to “win the hearts and minds” of the people, the counter-insurgency program OplanBayanihan is as fierce as the previous programs under the Arroyo administration that led to the death of more than 1, 000 peasants, workers, youths, women, children, priests, journalists, indigenous people and civilians MINI VICTIMS OF SUPPRESSION

  42. OBJECT OF DESIRE AND EXPLOITATION

  43. Women exploited are never different from the exploited and abused children. Like children, women should be seen as women from a definite class or sector of the society or they are also abused by their class. OBJECT OF DESIRE AND EXPLOITATION

  44. There were 9, 797 reported cases of violence against women as of 2009 • 8 cases of gang rape were reported to Gabriela from January to September 2010. OBJECT OF DESIRE AND EXPLOITATION

  45. OBJECT OF DESIRE AND EXPLOITATION Source: Gabriela

  46. Of the 11 women who die due to childbirth complications, 60 percent delivered in their homes • 2/3 of which are assisted by unskilled attendants. OBJECT OF DESIRE AND EXPLOITATION

  47. The Philippines has the highest mortality rate in Asia. • For every 100, 000 women giving childbirth, 230 die. • A higher number compared to the 110 in Thailand, 62 in Malaysia and 14 in Singapore. • 75 percent of pregnant women come from the poorest section of the society have no access to skilled attendants compared to the 20 percent pregnant women from rich families. OBJECT OF DESIRE AND EXPLOITATION

  48. Due to the very low information dissemination on sex, sexual activities of youths aged 15-19 elevated from 1994 to 2002 which results to the pregnancy of 10 percent of women who are mostly poor. • Also, lack of education on violence against women, almost 25 percent of women aged 15-19 experience physical or sexual harassment. OBJECT OF DESIRE AND EXPLOITATION

  49. As men step out of the houses to work, women are left behind to take care of the children, do household chores and look over their houses. OBJECT OF DESIRE AND EXPLOITATION

  50. DEMOLITION JOB

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