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MANILA - Progressives and press freedom advocates held a protest action today, Feb. 26, outside the Supreme Court, where an urgent quo warranto petition against ABS-CBN is currently lodged. The protest action is part of the continuing call for the franchise renewal...
President Duterte may look like he is merely copying the atrocities of the Marcos dictatorship. But a deeper scrutiny shows the system that allowed the Marcos dictatorship to rise prevailed even after his ouster.
“While the current law makes it optional to make journalists witnesses, many times, threats to exclude them from coverage or from receiving tips have forced them to do so.”
The CA ruled that the 15 “are not guilty of gross and habitual neglect of duty under the Labor Code.”
“In both communities, the farmers and fisherfolk are being deprived of their right to produce food and sources of livelihood, and consequently throwing them to hunger, essentially violating their right to food.”
"...rather than give firefighters guns, it would be better if they are given better fire fighting equipment against forest and industrial fires."
Members of Altermidya Panay have been joining protests denouncing attacks on fellow media colleagues. They have called for the release of Eastern Vista Executive Director Frenchie Mae Cumpio and supported the campaign for franchise renewal of ABS-CBN.
"It is sad that one of the witnesses on the 'GCTA scam' got cold feet and backed out, while another was killed, but with the enactment of HB 4387 and 4388, they would be a whole new mechanism for their safety, among others," Zarate said in a statement.
In an earlier statement, the Nona del Rosario Command of the New People’s Army (NPA) said that the victim was only 15 years old when she was first raped in November 2018. She was raped again in March 2019 after the same soldier “tried to befriend her.”
Nazi fascists, Japanese militarists, Spanish Falangistas - Notes on a reactionary tripartite alliance during World War II By Dr. Rainer Werning 75 years after the end of World War II it is again timely to also remember a German connection in instilling militarism,...
"The fisherfolk would be at the front-line casualties of this looming ecological disaster, thus, we are demanding the Duterte government to address this with urgency and decisively by halting environmentally critical projects that would aggravate the impacts of climate change.”
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat MANILA -- Alternative media groups that were subjected to relentless cyberattacks last year were vindicated with a "small victory" after two tech companies, whose infrastructure were used to carry out the incursions, agree to support...
Ang ipinaghihimagsik nati’y di lang prangkisa,/ Kundi ang sagradong ngalan ng demokrasya.
“Resistance is not futile, but vital to preserving democracy.”
Effective mechanisms to combat such attacks shall further be improved to prevent a repeat of this kind of situation.
This week, Bulatlat looks back on the publishing of The Communist Manifesto and its relevance today. [wpedon id="106651"...
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