MANILA — Contrary to Vice-President Noli de Castro?s assertion that the growing number of Filipinos employed abroad was proof of an economic boom ? an alliance of overseas Filipino groups said the rising number of OFWs underline a worsening Philippine economy.
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"By compromising national patrimony to the Dutch and allowing their companies full and unhampered access to Philippine natural resources, the Arroyo government was able to secure a deal with the Dutch government to go after Prof. Sison and the NDF in the Netherlands," said Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran.
"There is no dignity, in policy nor in practice, in the way our indigenous peoples are being treated. Indigenous communities are being displaced and threatened by mining concessions; they are being massacred supposedly in the name of development. There is an ethnocide going on in this country," Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan said.