“If anyone had rights over the Manila Bay, it is the Filipino people, and if it is to serve any purpose, it should be for the benefit of the general population, and not an elite few.”
What is common in the stories of the residents in various coastal sitios of Bulacan is that the “news” about their impending displacement is coming to them in trickles of information packaged in a threat.
While the government is riding on the popular call for cleanup of Manila Bay, harnessing free labor of volunteers for fishing out thrash in Manila Bay, it is, on the other hand, disproportionately blaming the poor and seeking their demolition in favor of reclamation plans and other real estate development.
“The latest round of price hikes will definitely hurt consumers including low to middle-income earners and especially poor sectors like farmers, fisherfolk and urban poor.”
MANILA -- In the mountainous area of Macupa, Talisayan in Misamis Oriental, an armed encounter between a unit of the New People's Army (NPA) and soldiers from the 58th Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army, took place at 9:30 in the morning of Feb 23. The Army is in...
'Pres. Duterte and FM Kono did not discuss their accountability and Japanese fruit company Sumifru in the violation of workers' rights.'
Despite the people's success in bringing home the Balangiga bells, much need to be done to cure ourselves of historical amnesia. --- ACT Teachers Partylist
Sy may indeed be a hardworking man. But so are his conglomerate’s employees. With Sy’s determined use of neoliberal policies such as contractualization, the fruits of tens of thousands of his employees’ hard work go largely to his companies’ profits. Here lies the unheralded side of his Forbes-topping net worth, the secret to his centavo to billion peso taipan tale and why labor groups are raising their placards to hail the Endo King.
The MANGGAGAWA Partylist asks the COMELEC to act toward ensuring the main objective of the partylist system is met -- allow marginalized groups such as the workers to expand their political participation .
“There are technological solutions it could implement to prevent data corruption.”
'There is no real rehabilitation if the Manila Bay ends up with profit-driven corporations.'
“There are many ways those ‘hostaged’ passport data may be used to the disadvantage of the owners of the data.”
State workers blame the delay in budget approval on government officials "asserting their selfish interest and also on wrong budget policies."
With global warming and climate change, normal or extra-strong typhoons are becoming more disastrous than ever, offering more pressing reasons not to destroy the remaining forest and watershed to build unnecessary mega-dams.
By MARYA SALAMAT This is one of the reports in a series produced by Bulatlat.com with the Asia-Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) Media Fellowship. The series aims to report on linkages between gender, ecological conflicts and climate change....
“We are alarmed by the Duterte administration’s continuous, intended choice to violate human rights and fundamental freedoms of its own people.”
The MWSS and the water companies did not give the consumers' groups documents or explanations of the basis of raising water rates. Representatives of consumers’ groups repeatedly asked to no avail.
“We are the victims and survivors yet we are the ones being accused and slapped with cases.” – Rene Manlangit, chairperson of NFSW in Barbara, Sagay
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Lawyer Katherine Panguban disputed with her legal counsel, Josa Deinla, the accusation of kidnapping hurled against her recently by the father of the child survivor of Sagay massacre. Panguban helped in restoring the child...
The vehicle for some semblance of democratization has become a family affair to political dynasties and their partylists, and a way for big businesses to protect and promote their special interests. By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Even the crumbs allotted to...
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