The initiative also calls attention to the preponderance of non-solutions to climate change being floated in global conferences that are supposed to find solutions.
Manila Initiative urges real solutions to climate crisis
Marya Salamat
US, Philippine BPO workers form solidarity for workers rights
“We are stronger together than when we are apart.”
Main findings of Global Witness 2019 Report
Vast natural resources and fertile soils have long attracted foreign investment to the Philippines, yet widespread corruption and a culture of impunity for unscrupulous companies has seen the profits disappear into the pockets of a tiny elite. – Global Witness
End of killings urged as PH turns deadliest for environmental defenders
“The ecological agriculture that landless farm workers have painstakingly carved out of the vast monoculture plantations of Negros sugar barons have been irrigated with blood and bullets.”
In New York, people’s movements hold Ground Level Political Forum for sustainable development
“Before it’s too late for our planet and for its peoples’, governments must listen to people and communities for just and equitable development.”
Scant gov’t response to climate change hitting farmers the hardest
Farmers’ harvests this year are disappointingly smaller than before – not just in amount but in size also of the grains itself.
NPA-Northern Samar raids ‘abusive Marawi battalion’
Since 2017 peasants and peasant women in Northern Samar have complained of extra-judicial killings, military encampment in public schools and in barangays, forcible mass evacuation affecting 2,423 victims, illegal arrest and detention, series of aerial bombing, psywar and surveillance, destruction of properties, sexual harassment and others.
Why ending ‘endo’ remains as Duterte’s unmet campaign promise
The Congress-approved Senate version does not prohibit fixed-term and multi-layered contracting as demanded by workers. Its provision on penalties and fines on employers and agencies engaged in illegal labor-only contracting is weak.
Move on? Move forward instead for clean elections, watchdogs say
On top of coercive activities of the police and military forcing the people not to vote for the opposition and the progressives, on top of humongous campaign ads of administration bets, the automated election system itself can and may have been used to spew vote “results” in favor of the administration bets, particularly at the national level.
Global Day of Action seeks freedom of jailed unionist Maoj Maga
Maoj Maga, 39, has been put through misery in several congested prisons as well as a quarantine-isolation cell when he has not committed any crime.
Comelec proclaims ‘winning’ senators
There are now only four opposition senators in the opposition, prompting fears that the previously opposed legislations including charter change, the worst of all proposed charter changes according to senatorial bet Neri Colmenares, may soon be resurrected. By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Amid protests questioning the integrity and results of the elections, the Commissions…