Informal settlers or “squatters” on Tuesday decried the Aquino government’s relocation projects, rating them “PG” or “Pure Gimmickry.”

Hundreds of “squatters” from various waterway communities affected by an ongoing relocation program held a Kalbaryo ng Maralita (Calvary of the Poor) in various churches in Quezon City and Manila before proceeding to the foot of Mendiola Bridge to dramatize their plight and denounce what they claimed was the government’s “rabid anti-poor policies.”

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