MANILA – Progressive youth groups showed disgust over what they called “free tuition scam,” referring to the recently-released Implementing Rules and Regulation for the free tuition policy issued by the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) and the Department of Budget and Management. In a protest on Wednesday, May 10, students tore copies of the IRR…
“It’s discouraging. It’s like scrounging for alms from an institution which should actually provide free education.”
The peasantry may have found an ally in the President, but they know where lies their true strength in struggle.
Ni MARK ANGELES Sapagkat ang baya’y hindi nila magagapi, Ka Zola, Ka Nante, Ka Ugis, Ka Emil, Nilandas mo’t ginabayan ang masa’t gerilya Sa mga nayo’t sona ng Ilocos at Cordillera. Dito sa amin sa Kalakhang Maynila, Ka Tolayts, Ka Daniel, Ka Dario, Papa Dee, Sumibol ka sa LFS at CEGP, sa UE at PUP,…
MANILA — Partylist group Bayan Muna led a picket in front of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, May 10, to jump-start their planned protest actions against the “anti-poor tax reform package of the finance department.” “While this tax reform measure is giving more incentives to the rich, it is, on the other hand, further…
At the Tondo General Hospital, one ward, which has up to 80 patients, has only three nurses on duty.
The White House has confirmed that President Donald Trump has invited President Rodrigo Duterte to visit the United States. The invitation has provoked criticism from human rights groups, among them Human Rights Watch (HRW), which has been unrelenting in its condemnation of the toll in lives of Mr. Duterte’s “war” on drugs. It is widely…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR The Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) extends its highest commendation to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) secretary Gina Lopez for her past 10 months of pursuing fearless and progressive environmental reforms under the rallying cry of social justice. Lopez was clearly a victim of the pervading…
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By ANGELA MAE BUENAFE-ZE The Truth is exposed to you in that subtle roundabout way: Masked in some kind of self-righteous humility Condolences for your pity “Kawawa me” mentalities Restricted their potentialities to 8-5pm in airconditioned offices that filed the correct paperwork to hang tarpaulin signage that promises Protection of Rights. They know how to…
Ni KENNETHFER NABO Hindi lamang tayo mga makatang sagana sa salita Ang isyu ng bayan ang winawagayway nating bandila Tayo rin ang tinig ng naghihimagsik na sambayanan Kasama ng masa’y moog sa bawat labanan. Tayo ang makabagong Rizal Ngunit walang pangalang nakaukit sa mga pidistal Tayo rin ang makabagong Bonifacio Mga magiting na rebolusyunaryo Naghahangad…
Farm workers cooperatives of Lapanday and their supporters are here in Manila and have set up a farmers’ camp in Mendiola. They want President Duterte to intercede in their land case and direct the Lorenzo family to return the lands to the agrarian reform beneficiaries.