“The administration of President Benigno S. Aquino is only allotting 2.2 percent of our GDP for education. It doesn’t even reach half of the UN recommendation.” — ACT secretary-general France Castro.
Teachers press for proposed law for wage hike
Day: September 9, 2014
Development worker killed in Abra encounter
Engineer Fidela “Delle” Bugarin Salvador, 50, was a staff member of the Cordillera Disaster Response and Development Services (CorDisRDS) and was monitoring projects in the area when she was caught and was killed in the crossfire.
Paramilitary group displaces Manobo tribe
“It is evident that government forces had put civilians’ lives at risk and have also hampered the children’s right to education. Therefore, it is just to call for the military to immediately stop their operations in the said communities, and to call for the government to disband the paramilitary groups in the area, particularly the Bagani Forces.” — Rural Missionaries of the Philippines – Northern Mindanao
Photojournalists hold protest vs. ‘anti-intrusion’ bill
MANILA — Photojournalists held a rare protest action in front of the House of Representatives today against House Bill 4807 or the “Protection against Personal Intrusion Act.” Once signed into law, it will be “unlawful to capture, or to trespass on private property in order to capture, any type of visual image, sound recording, or…
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QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com He had you at “power to the people!” and then he said he wanted to “occupy” your heart, and that you are his 99 percent. Yet you find his world quite exotic, his vocabulary sometimes confusing, although he seems sincere given his passionate determination to fight for his beliefs. Indeed,…