By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – A group of farm workers held a protest action today, March 21, in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform in Quezon City to decry the continuing expansion of plantations in the country instead of providing much-needed subsidies for farm inputs. In what appears to be a…
“What we have seen so far is that the government is not serious in improving the agricultural industry in the country.”
“Even more outstandingly ironic is that we as international lawyers made time to see things firsthand on the reported attacks on our peers and brethren out of genuine concern and who in good faith humbly put forward concrete recommendations for consideration by the authorities are ourselves the object of attack.”
“The more serious the crime, the less serious the investigation.”
KONTEKSTO Danilo Araña Arao Hindi na kailangang ipaliwanag kung bakit mahalaga ang tubig. Ginagamit ito sa paglilinis, pagluluto at paglalaba. Kung maliligo o magsesepilyo, may tubig pa ring makokonsumo. Kaya nga napakalaking abala kung mawawalan ng suplay nito, lalo na kung napakahabang oras na walang tubig at natapat pa sa oras ng almusal, tanghalian o…
By DEE AYROSO
“The Duterte government is run by pathological liars and militarists who are corrupt to the core, able to subvert laws and mechanisms to evade accountability.”
TO BELIEVE and argue that black people are inherently violent or that all Jews are money-grubbing scoundrels is to presume that race is the determinant of certain vices and virtues. It is nothing but racism, and those who harbor that presumption qualify as racists. Themselves the subjects and targets of racism, Filipinos can be racist…
“For the things I have said, ordered and done, I am willing to put my neck here. Maybe someday, this ICC [International Criminal Court]… if they decide to hang me I would be very glad to go.” With a fatalistic twinge, President Duterte was quoted as having said this last Wednesday, as he considered the…
Focusing on just Manila Water diverts the issue away from privatization as the central issue in, and underlying reason behind, the artificial shortage. As such, it also has the effect of absolving government of responsibility when in fact, the biggest accountability in all this lies with government for abandoning its duty to ensure water for the people.
“If they can kill lawyers, then they can practically kill anybody.”