By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“It is an added instrument, a tool and a weapon. But it is not the answer to migrant workers’ problems.” – Migrant workers’ organization
Migrant group to use ILO treaty to empower domestic helpers
Day: July 7, 2011
Int’l anti-imperialist league holds assembly amid the global crisis
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Legal protest movements are rising on a global scale in an unprecedented way. They are fueled by pro-imperialist and reactionary policies and such concrete conditions generated by these as rising mass unemployment, soaring prices of food, fuel and other basic commodities and increasingly violent reaction of states to unarmed protests.” – Professor Jose Maria Sison
Peasants from poor countries shout ‘Fight for land against land grabbing, landlordism, state terrorism, imperialism’
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Landlords, land grabbers, corrupt governments and imperialism – we must all fight and defeat them. The landlords say they will never give up their lands, but what is stronger than their greed is the righteousness of our struggle for land and our humanity.”
Luis V. Teodoro | Haunted
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld HE’S been dead for 22 years, having died in Honolulu, Hawaii on September 28, 1989 at the age of 72, but Ferdinand Marcos haunts us still. The most recent manifestation of the ghost of atrocities past came in the form of his children’s pushing a resolution in…