The Maranaos from Marawi have brought to the capitol their stories of suffering and their demand for justice.
Lakbayan 2017 | Marawi evacuees join protest caravan to Manila
Month: August 2017
Lakbayan 2017 | For the third time, UP Diliman hosts national minorities ‘kampuhan’
The University of the Philippines-Diliman serves as the base camp for some 3,000 national minorities up to Sept. 22.
Lawyers, urban poor ask QC court to stop compulsory drug testing
By BULATLAT MANILA – Human rights lawyers and urban poor residents of Quezon City has asked the courts to order a halt to the so-called “voluntary” drug testing being conducted by the Philippine National Police in communities in the city. The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) led 30 Quezon city residents who filed a…
Welcoming committee
By DEE AYROSO
Support swells for DAR chief Mariano as landlords oppose confirmation
“(Agrarian Reform Sec Rafael) Mariano has made impressive pronouncements and policies in favor of poor farmers struggling to own their lands legitimately.” – Most. Rev. Rolando J. Tria Tirona
4 disappeared under Duterte
Two Lumad, a Moro child and a peasant woman went missing in the past year.
2nd Lakbayan of national minorities to protest killings, other attacks
Dubbed as Pambansang Lakbayan ng Pambansang Minorya, the members of national minorities under the flag of Sandugo are returning to Metro Manila on Thursday, August 31. They will camp out in UP Diliman, their main camp, and in two other satellite camps near other universities. They have scheduled mass meetings and delegations to various government offices until September 21, but they invite the public to meet with them in their camps or in their scheduled mass actions.
UPLB community welcomes Lakbayan delegates from Mindanao, Visayas
Similar tales of forced evacuation from their lands hounded the rest of the national minorities, spurring them to this second Lakbayan.
Long workhours, reduced pay await workers in compressed work week proposal – labor NGOs
The House of Representatives has passed House Bill 6152 this week. It will allow employers to implement four-day or five-day workweek with workers still clocking in a total 48 hours of work per week. This would mean 9.6 hours to 12 work hours per day, without overtime pay.
Groups launch Movement Against Tyranny
Warning the Duterte government is fast unfolding into another despotic regime, the group calls on the public “to take a stand, speak out and act” against the extrajudicial killings and other “blatant acts of tyranny.”
Justice for Kian, justice for all!
The cold-blooded murder of 17-year-old senior high school student, Kian Loyd delos Santos, by Caloocan police, in what President Rodrigo Roa Duterte loudly proclaims as his administration’s unrelenting “war on drugs,” has unleashed a firestorm of protest. No, Justice Secretary Aguirre, people are not buying your line that Kian’s killing is an “isolated case” that…