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Tuesday, May 02, 2006
This rallyist has been at it for almost a decade
Rosalia de los Santos, 54, has been going to the streets for almost a decade now, hoping to bring a message to the Government—alleviate poverty.
A mother of seven children and whose husband left her for another woman, Saling, as friends called her, did not mind staying in the streets and enduring the heat for hours to join protest rallies.
Saling was one of at least 800 people who joined a Sanlakas-led rally yesterday in Colon St. on Cebu City to commemorate of the 120th Labor Day.
“Ang ako ra gyung gusto nga matabangan ming mga pobre sa gobierno. Nga ang mga palaliton, makaya ra og palit namong mga kabus. Wala nako masabti ang gobierno kay daghan ang gisulti, apan wa’y katumanan (I only want that the government can help poor folk like us. That consumer goods be made affordable to the poor. I can’t understand the government because it says many things but none are fulfilled),” she said.
Saling said she has a hard time making both ends meet with the meager money she earns from vending fish in Tangke, Talisay City.
“Dili nako malikayan nga mohilak nalang. Unta makahatag na og trabaho ang gobierno (I can’t help but weep. I hope the government can give us jobs),” she said.
She said it was her own decision to join militant groups to march in the streets, brushing off insinuations that they were only paid by the organizers.
Saling said she will not get tired of joining rallies, hoping that one day the government hears her voice and solves the poverty problem in the country. (JST)
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