“They should put their main ingredient here as union-busting.”
The main ingredient
Month: May 2023
At Ground Level | US, Phl update defense guidelines
The US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty, nearly 75 years old now, is being dusted off in the light of “current and emerging threats” to the two countries – read: China’s increasing belligerence about Taiwan and its own maritime claims over almost the entire South China Sea.
G7 and the corporate agenda in food systems
The world’s most powerful nations are bent on perpetuating hunger and inequality by accelerating plunder & destruction of the planet. Rural peoples struggle to break free from their imperialist grip.
How extractive industries are threatening food security of Dumagat food producers
In the case of the Dumagats, losing their means of food production also means losing their whole identity as they are known to be independent food producers for the thousand of years that they have been farming, hunting, and fishing.
Farmers told to brace for dry spell as El Niño looms
“We must look for ways to lessen the vulnerabilities and enhance our capabilities in disaster response.”
Root Access | Fraud in the 2022 elections and our ways forward
One year after the elections, the Computer Professionals’ Union takes a look at everything that’s gone wrong in the automated elections system, and puts forward recommendations.
Question Everything | Ship of State
The protest of Masinloc fishers highlighted the lack of attention given to ordinary people as officials relish their token role in the geopolitical ‘game of thrones’ in the Asia-Pacific. On one hand, they are bullied by oversized Chinese vessels in our own territory; but they are also barred from fishing during Balikatan war games. Dynamite fishing has been outlawed yet US troops used a missile to blow up a warship in Zambales.
Not-so-safe delivery: Riders’ trip to unsafe working conditions
“The nature of work of delivery riders is unquestionably necessary and desirable to the business and trade of the companies to whom they render their services. Without them, companies engaged in the delivery business have actually no business to speak of. Thus, delivery riders are deemed regular employees by operation of law, regardless of the existence of any work contracts they signed.”
Workers in Southern Tagalog push back for labor rights
Despite the setbacks, however, workers in the Southern Tagalog region have continued to assert their rights and fight back. For Mario Fernandez and his fellow unionists in TEPWU, it meant meeting state forces head on. This meant actively challenging attempts to tag them as “communist sympathizers.”
Abra court grants plea to junk rebellion raps vs 7 activists in Cordillera
“The decision of the trial court is but another knot in the long line of similar fabricated cases filed against activists and eventually dismissed because they are that – fabrications.”
Surface Dexter and Bazoo
By DEE AYROSO Bulatlat.com Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz “Bazoo” de Jesus have been missing since April 28. And state security forces are the likely suspects. They were last seen in Taytay, Rizal being forced into two separate vehicles by men who introduced themselves as “CIDG” agents. Dexter, 57, is an Ibaloi-Bontoc-Kankanaey and alleged NPA…