Rank-and-file employees will get only up to 22 percent increase, while the President gets 233 percent raise.
Youths burn Apec logo
“Our protest today symbolizes our disgust for the current rotten system.”
Health groups hit APEC, says Obama will push TPP in summit
“The impact of APEC and the TPP on health is that millions of people will be denied access to essential and much needed medicines, with the tightening of patents and intellectual property rights.”
NGO coalition supports Lumad children’s right to education
“We are here not because we pity you, we are here because you have human rights.”
‘Defend Lumad schools, our beacons of hope’
“These beacons of hope for the indigenous communities are now being shadowed over by the continuing threat of militarization and development aggression.”
Women protest plunder and militarization
“We hold President Aquino responsible for this policy of ethnocide and persecution that targets Lumad communities. We hold him accountable for the abuses committed against Lumad women and children.”
Youth solon hails restoration of slashed budget of SUCs in 2016
“Our fight for greater state subsidy for education continues.”
Metro Manilans support #Manilakbayan2015
“We are Filipinos, too. We should fight for each other’s rights.”
Manilakbayan reaches NCR
Their only dream is to uplift their lives, have education that their ancestors have been deprived of, live peacefully in their ancestral land and develop it for their families and the next generation.
Peasant groups dare presidentiables to address land problem
“We hope that candidates who promise reforms in the country would hear and realize the aspiration of Filipino farmers, which should have been realized long ago.”
Ph one of world’s biggest rice importers, as food producers go hungry
“It is ironic that the rural people who are the primary food producers are the ones who are experiencing lack of food and drastic hunger.”