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Tanduay workers have initiated a campaign to boycott Tanduay products and they are asking the people to support it.
“We appeal to the DOJ, no more delays, please.”
Leoncio "Kumander Parago" Pitao was being treated for diabetes, hyperthyroidism and hepatitis when soldiers of the 6th Scout Ranger Company, 2nd Scout Ranger Battalion peppered him with bullets on June 28 at around 2:30 p.m. in barangay Panalum, Paquibato district, Davao City.
“Glencore ultimately failed in the face of massive people’s resistance against foreign and large-scale mining.”
“Are these electoral candidates part of the rainbow? Are they going to stand up for LGBT rights as human rights and not as special rights?”
“He was shaking. He kept crying. It was clear to me that they underwent a sort of mental torture.”
Erlinda Cadapan and Concepcion Empeño, mothers of missing UP students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño, looked at the crowd of students and activists listening intently at the program and said, “They would have been among them today, resisting and fighting for the country.”
“We are not pro-Chinese, we are not pro-American, we are pro-Filipino, and we are ready to stand pat to our territory, assert our national sovereignty, and fight to retain what is ours.”
"It [contractualization] is an alarming business practice: workers both in public and private sectors are forced to work for wages below the meagre minimum wage, with no benefits, no job security and under poor health and safety work conditions."
"The employment status of a person is defined and prescribed by law and not by what the parties say it should be."
Seven out of ten Filipinos rate themselves as poor, according to the latest survey of independent think tank Ibon Foundation.
“We should open our eyes to the two-pronged approach to the peace negotiation."
“Is there an undeclared martial law against us by the Aquino government?”
“When she was in Gabriela, Sharon Cabusao led campaigns to free women political prisoners. Now, the campaign is for her release.”
The decision of the National Labor Relations Commission is a vindication of the workers’ right to strike and an initial step at undermining the talent system being implemented by RMN management.
“The naval exercises themselves do very little to develop our own capability for external defense.”
In celebration of Fathers’ day, Bulatlat.com interviewed two youth leaders, who also break the stereotype, as part of the struggle to break the system: the activist fathers.
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