After his arrest in 1977, Philippine communist leader Joma Sison was presented to the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. He could have negotiated his release with his fellow Ilocano by pledging loyalty to the ‘New Society’. He could have altered the course of history by agreeing to surrender his beliefs and disowning the national democratic resistance. But…
Day: June 8, 2018
Year in, year out | Public school teachers put up with school woes
“We wore our protest gears during the flag ceremony and while teaching to deliver to the Duterte administration our demands to prioritize the allocation of sufficient budget to fill up the deficiencies in education, raise the salaries to P30,000 ($571) for Teacher 1 and create enough items for education support personnel.”
After CA rejection, Mary Jane Veloso to bring her plea to Supreme Court
“We shall also revisit and exhaust other options and channels to ensure that Mary Jane is rightfully saved from the gallows on legal, political and humanitarian grounds.”
Peasants slam proposal to amend 30-year-old ‘bogus land reform law’
“This sinister move clearly aims to ‘zombify’ the CARP law which expired on June 30, 2014.”