“The struggle in Hacienda Luisita is the struggle of the Filipino people.”
#RememberLuisita| Land cultivation campaign showcases people’s unity
Day: November 16, 2016
Kin of Luisita massacre martyrs want justice
“We are calling on the new administration to hold all the perpetrators accountable.”
Decentering Carlos Bulosan
By DR. PAULINO LIM, Jr. Emeritus professor of English, California State University, Long Beach Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan. Edited by Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao. (University Press of America, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, July 2016), 378pp., 18 illustrations, paperback, $40.99 This remarkable anthology introduces Carlos Bulosan to 21st readers,…
NLRC orders Miriam College to reinstate their wrongly retrenched professors
Labor Arbiter Julio Gayaman “found that the school failed to prove the validity of retrenchment, which employers should use upon imminent and substantial loss and only as the last resort.”
Youth group opposes revival of mandatory ROTC
MANILA — Progressive youth group Anakbayan held a picket in front of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) General Headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo today, Nov. 15. They are opposing the proposals to revive the mandatory Reserved Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Reviving the ROTC has been proposed again, this time under the administration of President…
Renewed attacks on IP schools prompt calls for investigation in Congress
In Sultan Kudarat, the town mayor, the police and some local govt agencies are bringing the military’s counter-insurgency operations to IP schools, forcingout of school over a thousand Dulangan Manobo students.
Duterte urged to go beyond Aquino’s ‘token actions’ on botanist Leonard Co
In 2012, the DOJ recommended the filing of a (downgraded) case of reckless imprudence resulting to homicide.
No bilateral ceasefire accord forthcoming, says Tiamzon
“With the NPA restrained from mounting offensives, the AFP and PNP continue to violate the people’s rights with impunity.”