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When asked about their reactions on the ongoing impeachment proceedings versus CJ Corona, many poor Filipinos reply "Nakakain ba yan?"

"I am reminded of a quote attributed to Albert Einstein -- An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. It is not enough that the Aquino administration has fed the Filipino public the ongoing Corona impeachment case. It has to create more jobs and rescind its anti-people economic policies so as to allow the increasing number of hungry Filipinos to feed themselves," said GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus.  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today said the recent SWS survey indicating increased hunger is evidence that the Aquino administration’s Conditional Cash Transfer program is a failure. “It is high time for the Aquino administration to rethink its Conditional Cash Transfer program and in its stead, implement a more sustainable poverty alleviation program that will address the growing hunger and poverty among Filipinos.”  read more »

"The current calls for charter change sounds like fingers scratching on a blackboard as far as poor women and their families are concerned,” reacted Gabriela Women's Party Representative Emmi De Jesus to yesterday’s drumbeating by former Justice Puno and Senator Miriam Santiago. “It is jarring to the ears of the poor because it does not respond to any of the immediate and long term needs of marginalized and disadvantaged women and their families, who are clamoring for fundamental economic policy changes that address hunger, joblessness and landlessness,” De Jesus added.  read more »