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This regime labels people who serve the very same people it deprives of life, living wage, and social services as "terrorist" without showing us the way to move the country forward. The term "reactionary state" is crystallized in this government's perpetuation of violence --Martial Law, war on drugs, criminalization of dissent, neoliberal economic policies, and its active campaign for misogyny.
Proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution expand and deepen the control and scope allowed for foreign businesses.
By RUTH LUMIBAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Four years ago, William Bugatti, a Cordilleran human rights worker, was shot dead by suspected elements of the 86th Infantry Battalion after attending a hearing of political prisoners in Ifugao. Last March 2, another...
“We were forced to accept the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion [TRAIN] program, and now they want us to accept charter change, too."
“The problem with the current NFA is that it is remiss on its mandate to ensure food security.”
“Overseas Filipinos continue to leave the Philippines under the labour export policy, driven by many social and political problems, such as poverty, lack of jobs, landlessness, the lack of accessible health care and other social benefits.”
“Migrants are facing uncertainty that is why it is imperative for them to organize themselves not just to protect their rights and welfare but also to understand and link their issues to the socio-economic problems of Philippine society.”
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Thirty-two years since the first EDSA People Power and the celebrations continue to lose its spirit, and the crowds that attend it. I am referring, of course, to the official government celebrations. It is natural for the...
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.
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