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The ACT Teachers Party filed on Feb. 21 House Bill 7211, An Act Increasing the Minimum Salaries of Public School Teachers and other Government Employees and Augmenting the Personnel Economic Relief Allowance (PERA).
The NUPL stressed that in the end, the losing party in this fiasco is not the Chief Justice nor any Justice of the Court, nor the Court or the entire judicial system.
“President Duterte’s ‘compromise’ means that he wants workers to be exploited indefinitely; and that we could never accept.”
These are just some examples readily provided by one labor organization.
If this proposed law was passed, the government can start making warrantless arrest and detention 15 days after publication.
As of December 2017, Karapatan has already documented 126 cases of extrajudicial killings in the whole country -- at least half of which committed in the Southern Mindanao Region (SMR).
“We have exhausted all means to raise our issues to the local DA (Department of Agriculture) and Samar LGUs (local government units) but our demands fell on deaf ears."
The super agency would further increase the cost of “socialized housing,” enrich real estate developers and, justify and speed up the eviction and demolition of informal settlers.
"We were hoping that Sec. Piñol would face us and hear out our demands but it turned out that he has snubbed us and disregarded our demands."
“The fisherfolk is already being battered by numerous issues besetting the fishing sector; namely, the fish catch depletion due to corporate plunder of marine resources, the anti-fisherfolk law that allows commercial fishing fleets to exploit municipal waters, and the government’s lack of support to our sector?"
The 32nd EDSA commemoration was concluded with vows to defeat any other would-be dictator and tyrant.
They vowed to resist tyranny, frustrate the government's move to amend the Constitution and the installation of another dictator through what they described as "pseudo-federalism."
Former chief justice Reynato Puno says this is the “better time” to shift to a federal form of government. He didn’t say what he was comparing today with (a better time than when?). But he did claim that it’s because there’s enough public support to realize it....
MANILA -- The youth showed their strength on Feb. 23 as they flooded the streets with calls denouncing the “anti-people policies of the President Duterte administration.” Dubbed as National Protest for Rights, Freedom, and Democracy, youth and students from...
Women activists and artists perform a poem in response to President Duterte's statement telling his soldiers to shoot women communist guerrillas in their vaginas. The poem was written by Joi Barrios-Leblanc of Bayan-USA and performed by Gleeza Joy Belandres,...
'Political prisoners are at a disadvantage in cases such as these, where conviction may be had on the sole testimony of the arresting officer.'
“Let there be no doubt that harassing, punishing and terrorizing a free press are symptoms of a tyranny."
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective During his presidential campaign, Rodrigo Duterte vowed that if he becomes president, he would solve the illegal drug problem in six months, adding that the drug war would be bloody. He also promised to stamp out corruption....
Marklen Maojo Maga, 39, was arrested by policemen in plainclothes at around 8:40 a.m. after he brought his son to school. It was only in the evening that his family and lawyers confirmed that he is being held at the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group compound in Camp Crame.
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