“It’s so painful. It’s like erasing the sins of Marcos.”
Martial law survivors urge high court to stop hero’s burial for Marcos
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Filipino workers in Saudi company want to go home
“We are enduring the fact that we have to be away from our families to provide for their needs. But now, we have lost everything.”
Aiza Seguerra sings for indigenous peoples
“I could never imagine what you are going through, but I want you to know that you can use my voice and my reputation, no matter how humble it is. I am with you.”
#TiempoMuerto | ‘It’s dead season all-year round for sugar workers’
“Tiempo muerto will continue to be a season of hunger and death for sugar workers every year, if the country’s fundamental land problem is not seriously addressed.”
‘Revoking onerous privatization deal, a win-win solution in LRT1’ – scientists group
“The LRT1 concession agreement is disadvantageous to Filipino commuters and taxpayers.”
GRP bats for temporary freedom of NDFP consultants
“Their memory, knowledge and influence is valuable.”
Groups bring 6-point Indigenous Peoples Agenda to Duterte
The IP Agenda contains many of long-standing demands for justice, social services, and respect for culture – which boils down to respect for the indigenous peoples right to self-determination and ancestral lands.
Meralco asked to refund consumers, stop ‘over-recovery’
From July 2011 to June 2015, Meralco has “over-recovered” at least P2.39 billion ($51.2 M) from its consumers, estimated a consumers’ alliance.
Protests mount vs Marcos burial in Libingan ng mga Bayani
“Giving Marcos a hero’s burial sends a wrong signal that crimes against humanity and plunder will be celebrated by the state.”
Progressive solons file people’s mining bill in Congress
“It defines the significant roles of mining and a prosperous minerals industry in attaining a progressive, independent, industrialized and self-reliant economy.” By DEE AYROSO Bulatlat MANILA – Environment and indigenous activists challenged President Duterte and his allies in Congress to take a step further in protecting the environment, by fast-tracking the enactment of the People’s…
‘Disturbing’ | Group alarmed by termination of 40 nurses in Bulacan
“The FNU has been getting reports of LGU nurses experiencing harassment, intimidation and other forms of unfair, even inhuman practices, directly or indirectly related to political dynamics in their place of assignment.”