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By RONALYN V. OLEA
TThe 7th Division of the Court of Appeals held in abeyance the petition for temporary restraining order filed by the AFP and PNP to stop the Commission on Human Rights from hearing the complaints of human rights abuses filed by the Morong 43.
By LYN V. RAMO
Cordillera Day celebrations are held during the death anniversary of Macliing Dulag who has become a symbol of struggle and hope for the Cordillera people. This year, indigenous peoples' from different regions in the country gathered to come up with a common agenda to be presented to the next government.
By ANNE MARXZE D UMIL
Gabriela’s 30-piece haute couture will mirror “the real issues haunting the “runaway” administration of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Mary Alvarez, a typical urban poor woman and housewife, belongs to the 22.39 percent of Filipino women who make ends meet despite having no source of income.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
With the denial by the court of the motion blocking the transfer of the Morong 43 to Camp Crame, the AFP and the PNP have no recourse but to comply. But they don’t.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The Arroyo government fears the continued growth in membership and political influence of the progressive bloc in Congress,” Ocampo.
By MARYA SALAMAT
After two decades of falling real wages, with the last two years bereft of even a paltry wage increase despite the crisis and unmitigated price increases, the progressive labor front has once again raised the demand to legislate a P125 nationwide wage hike.
By PAULINE GIDGET ESTELLA
In the bible, the Israelites marched seven times to bring down the walls of Jericho. The protesters did the same to call the attention of the Comelec.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The League of Youth for the Environment awarded one bean point for every environmental friendly answer or record of a candidate or group. One mean bean, on the other hand, was awarded for every environmental destructive answer or record.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Ironically, while the CHR is proceeding with its hearings on the human rights violations complaint filed by the Morong 43 - even as the AFP stubbornly refuses to cooperate - the rights of the 43 health workers are violated over and over again.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is the “most anti-environment and anti-people president ever,” an environmental group said.
By PAULINE GIDGET ESTELLA
With reports from Kristine Abigail Lingbaoan
Doctors of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH)who applied for a leave of absence (LOA) in protest of the UP Board of Regents’ (BOR’s) “unceremonious” removal of Dr. Jose Gonzales as the PGH director experience harassment.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
These "bold yet wearable" creations mirror a host of social issues and concerns ranging from poverty, press freedom, good governance, human rights, social justice, and national patrimony.
By MARYA SALAMAT
One of the Philippines’ leading and most profitable broadcasting network, which claims to regard everybody as “kapamilya”, disowns its employees on the grounds that they are working for another entity, ABS-CBN IJM.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The 43 health workers have started fasting today April 17 to protest the refusal of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to present them at the hearings of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and its connivance with the Philippine National Police (PNP) in blocking their transfer to Camp Crame.
In this video commentary, Bulatlat.com destroys the myth of the "untainted" Noynoy Aquino. For decades, the Aquinos and the Cojuangcos have stolen from the farmers and workers of Hacienda Luisita, using every trick in the book, as well as brute force and violence to retain control of thousands of hectares of land that they do not own to begin with.
BY JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Batch by batch, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were deployed by Annasban were repatriated. And since then, they have been knocking on the doors of different government agencies to seek redress for their plight. But they were always given the runaround by government agencies that were non-committal and seemingly apathetic, until Monday April 12, 2010.
By D. L. MONDELO
"Noynoy Aquino is surrounded by agents of the US and the Arroyo regime who have been major partners of Arroyo in adopting and implementing policies that are detrimental to the national and democratic rights and interests of the Filipino people."
(First part: Sison: ‘Villar Offers Relatively Better Program; Noynoy to Frustrate Land Reform’)
By CIELO FLORES
Candidates who signed the covenant commit to review and work to repeal existing laws that exploit OFWs and to propose new policies that will further protect the rights and welfare of Filipino migrant workers.
By PAULINE GIDGET R. ESTELLA
Farmers assert that the Cojuangco-Aquino clan has exploited the “overextended” temporary restraining order used by the Supreme Court, enjoining the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council and former Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman from distributing Hacienda Luisita lands to farm worker beneficiaries.
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