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#UndoingDuterte | The real ‘Duterte legacy’ in Mindanao

The first president from Mindanao failed to alleviate the poverty and to resolve the decades-long conflicts in the island.

Menchani Tilendo | Jul 26, 2021

Balik-Tanaw | We cry out to our God of compassion

We bring this prayer in our hearts and cry out to our God at the SONA on July 26, 2021. The last SONA of Mr. Duterte. God, have mercy…

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 26, 2021

#Undoing Duterte | Ordinary folk burdened with higher taxes, price hikes, stagnant wages

The Duterte regime may spin the narratives on the economy all they want. But all indicators show that the country is in a much worse shape today than when it took over in 2016.

Arnold Padilla | Jul 25, 2021

#UndoingDuterte | Small businesses appeal for government support amid pandemic challenges

Micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) owners are still trying to get back on their feet after enduring the burden of the world’s longest lockdown.

Dawn Peña | Jul 25, 2021

#UndoingDuterte | Poor contact tracing amid deadly Delta variant

To identify close contacts up to third or fourth degree, community health advocates said that contact tracing has to rely on an already robust public health system which the Philippines does not have in the first place.

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Jul 25, 2021

Union groups give Duterte’s performance a grade of ‘poor, poor, poor’

A local advertisement here in the Philippines once asked – where can your P20 bring you? For government workers here, it meant a measly salary increase in the last five years of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 25, 2021

#UndoingDuterte | Public health’s sorry state under an unapologetic regime

With President Duterte down to his last months in office, community health advocates say health spending is an election issue that must be addressed – a first step in undoing the sorry state of the country’s public health care under an administration that won with a promise of tapang at malasakit.

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Jul 25, 2021

WakaSONA: Progressives call to end Duterte presidency as his last SONA nears

"There are different creative forms of protest that will take place on Monday to show that we are standing up against attacks on our freedom, our environment, our health, and our rights.”

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 24, 2021

#UndoingDuterte | Duterte’s economic legacy: Crisis worse than pandemic

Data show that the policies and programs of Duterte continued and inflamed the structural crisis of our economy. To be sure, the pandemic made it more acute. But make no mistake - Duterte’s economic legacy is far worse than the pandemic.

Arnold Padilla | Jul 24, 2021

Blood Rush | Unrest

This latest terrorist designation on the NDFP is a fascistic act of casting the net so wide in order to tag the armed revolutionary group as a growing network. That it comes with the government’s inability to contain the probable spread of the much feared COVID-19 Delta variant is no longer a shocker.

Sarah Raymundo | Jul 22, 2021

Tagum court junks murder charges against 6 activists

“True enough, the dismissal of the case is a step forward, but there is much to be done that necessitates our collective action and continuing calls for accountability and justice."

Anne Marxze Umil | Jul 21, 2021

Art is political, #Tumindig artist says

"We will not remain silent and allow the machinations of Duterte and his cronies to maintain power, nor let them sweep their sins against the nation under a rug."

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 21, 2021

Activists arrested in Quezon City are humanitarian workers – group

Karapatan-Caraga said that Julieta Gomez and Niezel Velasco are both engaged humanitarian work over the years. In fact, the group said that “officers and personnel of some of government agencies in the region know them personally as they have coordinated activities particularly with the Department of Social Welfare and Development and local government units in the Surigao and Agusan provinces and several municipalities.”

Anne Marxze Umil | Jul 20, 2021

Olongapo court junks terror case vs 2 Aeta farmers

A local court said that two Aeta farmers charged with terrorism were just running at the moment of their arrest, and thus, their warrantless arrest was unlawful.

Anne Marxze Umil | Jul 20, 2021

Prominent lawyers belie Duterte’s VP immunity claim, assail ‘self-serving interests’

Prominent Filipino lawyers debunked President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim during his party assembly on July 17 that his possible vice presidential bid for the 2022 elections will give him immunity against suit.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 20, 2021

Nanay Mameng, mother of Philippine urban poor struggle, passes on

"Without a doubt, oppressors are shaken by her voice. When Nanay Mameng speaks, everyone listens."

Rein Tarinay | Jul 19, 2021

Terror council designates NDFP as terror group

The Anti Terrorism Council has designated the National Democratic Front of the Philippines as a terrorist organization, a resolution dated June 23 read.

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Jul 19, 2021

Filipino journalists, newsrooms unite to ensure integrity of 2022 election coverage

More than 300 journalists and 40 news organizations signed the pledge to show their commitment to fact-based election coverage and monitor election campaigns to ensure the integrity of the elections in 2022.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 17, 2021

Youth group alarmed over ‘continuing culture of violence in military institutions’

The culture of violence in the country’s military institutions continues to be evident in an alleged case of maltreatment and hazing resulting in the death of a cadet – this time from the Philippine Merchant Marine Academy.