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Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) — The cries of the suffering carried through a small, cramped one-story clinic in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban where the medicine was all but gone Thursday, but the number of wounded in the hard-hit Philippine city continued to grow.
The clinic at the airport in the (…)
Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) — Juvelyn Taniega walks down a desolate road and points toward the barren landscape where her home once stood.
When Typhoon Haiyan tore through Tacloban, she says, the house she lived in with her husband and six children was one of the first to fall down. They (…)
Partido ng Manggagawa (Labor Party-Philippines) 12 November 2013
Capitalism is destroying the planet. Now we suffer.
The horror of devastations unleashed by monster-typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) upon eastern and central Philippine regions is unspeakable. As of writing, estimates on number of (…)
Note: help to RDRRAC initiative can be sent through ESSF solidarity campaign. See The Philippines struck by typhoons : An urgent call for financial solidarity
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The recent typhoon that hit most of the parts of the Visayas, Central part of the Philippines last (…)
Filipinos are no strangers to big storms. Their country sits next to the world’s most intense typhoon generator, a huge expanse of deep, warm ocean in the North West Pacific.
More than 20 tropical storms and typhoons buffet the islands each year. But even by Philippine standards, super-typhoon (…)
As the number of retrieved dead bodies now reached 2,000 (News Report, ABS-CBN BANDILA), 8,000 more remains missing either buried under collapsed buildings and wrecked infrastructures, floating in the water or just laying everywhere under the sun un-attended. Surviving families that include (…)
The super-typhoon Haiyan has just devastated the Visayas, at the centre of the Philippine archipelago as the 19th international climate conference opens in Warsaw. Last year, another deadly cyclone struck the Philippines as the said conference was held in Doha. The governmental delegates saluted (…)
On October 15, 2013, a 7.2 magnitude killer earthquake devastated the Visayas region costing thousand of lives and properties. This was after a two-week long stand-off between Philippine troops and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Zamboanga City in Mindanao that killed hundreds of people (…)
It seems these days that whenever Mother Nature wants to send an urgent message to humankind, it sends it via the Philippines. This year the messenger was Yolanda, a.k.a. Haiyan.
For the second year in a row, the world’s strongest typhoon barreled through the Philippines, Yolanda following on (…)
Extreme storm events such as super typhoon Haiyan, which wreaked havoc in the Philippines on Friday, are more likely in the future as the build-up of greenhouse gases warms the planet, scientists say.
Winds from typhoon Haiyan were estimated to have been 314km/h or higher when the monster (…)
According to information reaching us today, the giant typhon Haiyan (called Yolanda in the Philippines) provoked dramatic destructions. In the past our association initiated solidarity campings after previous disasters in the south (Mindanao) and north (Manila) of the archipelago. This time, (…)
Philippines’ Typhoon Haiyan crisis: For climate justice now! Fight, don’t be afraid! Makibaka! Huwag Matakot!
November 10, 2013 — Partido Lakas ng Masa — The people are still reeling from the impacts of possibly the biggest typhoon to strike the country. Death toll numbers are rising rapidly. (…)
We call on Peoples from different nations, regions, places in the world or nearby provinces, municipalities and cities to join us in our quest for our rights and welfare, the same as to our fight for justice for us all. In whatever forms and means, we would like to request you and your (…)
A total ban on all logging and mining activities!
Implement massive reforestation and a sustainable development plan!
Climate justice now! We demand full reparation from rich countries and their corporations!
Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) extends full sympathy to the victims of Typhoon Pablo (…)
Peter Boyle interviews Sonny Melencio.
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“People’s solidarity is a latent component that exists even in the capitalist system. We have to nurture it and provide an environment for it to fully develop by changing the system.”
August 13, 2012 — Links International Journal of (…)
The Ranaw Disaster Response & Rehabilitation Assistance Center, (RDRRAC) Inc. a non-government organization and a network of NGOs and PO’s from Lanao Provinces and the two cities of Marawi and Iligan, had launched its 4th general assembly on August 6, 2012 in Iligan City. It was attended by (…)
URGENT APPEAL LETTER FOR THE VICTIMS OF FLOODS IN METRO MANILA AND NEARBY TOWNS PLEASE SPREAD AROUND.
Dear Comrades and Friends of the IIRE-Manila,
Just days after the 4th Asian Global Justice School, torrential rains and strong winds hit hard Metro Manila and nearby provinces. This brought (…)
In scenes reminiscent of the large scale destruction wrought by Typhoon Ondoy (international name Ketsana) in late 2009 in which 400 died, torrential rains brought widespread flooding in the capital Metro Manila and nearby provinces. Almost a million people are affected and some 250,000 forced (…)
On the 17th of December 2011, Northeastern Mindanao had been hit by a never-expected disaster. Thousands were killed in a short a time, millions of pesos worth of properties were destroyed and several hundreds of people were missing. This disastrous event was brought by the strong current of (…)
While waiting for the Ground Breaking Ceremony of KAPUSO Village in Barangay Mandulog to start, DUYOG ILIGAN team managed to engage into few dialogue with two residents and survivors of the flood. They shared all the hardships they went through in order to survive from the deluge which they (…)
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