A homeless person and his pink ride seem to watch over tired job hunters taking a nap on a park named after the country’s most famous worker-revolutionary. (Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila)
Day: July 21, 2012
180 Filipino workers in Saudi to hold hunger strike
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO and ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“The OFWs, joined by other maltreated migrant workers of other nationalities, launched strikes and ‘stop-work protests.’ They appealed to the Philippine embassy for help, but they were left to fend for themselves.”
Ilocos environmental advocates face harassment
By JOAN GARCIA ILOCOS — Political activists and journalists are endangered species in the country. With the renewed push of the Aquino government for the encouragement of foreign, large-scale mining operations in the country coupled with the president’s order for the Armed Forces of the Philippines to protect mining companies, environmental, anti-mining advocates have been…