Two media announcements from Malacanang this week, reaffirming President Duterte’s commitments on two crucial issues at the start of his term in July, have evoked positive responses from the peasant and worker sectors. These sectors constitute the majority of the poor whose socio-economic conditions Mr. Duterte has vowed to uplift. The first, announced after a…
Day: March 5, 2017
Things fall apart
The 31st anniversary of EDSA 1986 was marked — the government didn’t exactly celebrate it — with both chaos and indifference. The disorder was evident in the differences in the various groups’ and even the government’s separate and conflicting activities to observe it. Apathy was the usual response of much of the populace to an…
Green groups, communities, push for enforcement of suspension, closure orders on mining
Environmental groups, communities push for enforcement of suspension, closure orders on mining operations
Not listening
By DEE AYROSO