Teresita Edir, a pushcart vendor in Agdao market, and her children join a recent march organized by urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) demanding for the ouster of President Arroyo. Edir complains that her earnings could hardly buy a kilo of rice from the National Food Authority (NFA). NFA rice is the cheapest rice sold in the market. “In Erap’s time, we could buy rice at P10 a kilo,” she recalls the time of former President Joseph Estrada. “Now, rice is P18 per kilo under Gloria! With a President like her, life only gets harder. She’s corrupt and she has not done anything to alleviate the situation of poor.” (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
