Media groups denounce slay try on Roxas City broadcaster
"No threat will ever change our commitment to honest, responsible journalism."
"No threat will ever change our commitment to honest, responsible journalism."
"A lower number of reported cases does not necessarily mean fewer violations."
"Her youth, academic excellence, and idealism should never be weaponized to rationalize custodial violations."
“This campaign is an important opportunity to empower caregivers to take collective action and mobilize the broader community to defend migrant rights."
This triumph is a testament that winning is possible if people choose to fight.
“It is important that the government increases the daily minimum wage of the Filipino workers."
Through community pantries, people can donate goods which the severely affected could get based on what they need.
Their arrest during the solemn observance of Lent reflects the continuing injustice faced by those who stand with the poor and oppressed.
“What they called an ‘interview’ was actually an interrogation, with death threats.”
“The more we speak, the more they target us,” Sheerah Escudero, sister of drug war victim Ephraim Escudero, told Bulatlat in Filipino. “Even the dead were not spared. They tell me, ‘How about the victims of drug addicts like your brother?’”
In this series of stories of indigenous women human rights defenders of Cordillera, we give human face to those who were tagged as “terrorists” by the Philippines government.
“There is strength in continuing the struggle."
Nangahas siyang ilantad ang mga mali sa lipunan—ang pang-aabuso at pang-aapi ng uring naghahangad maghari sa kapwa at angkinin ang mga lupain at bunga ng kalikasan. Nag-organisa siya upang maipalaganap ang tamang kaisipan at mahikayat ang mga tao na kumilos upang baguhin ang isang kaayusang di-makatarungan kung saan iilan lamang ang nakikinabang.
Yes there was madness, but award-winning director Jun Robles Lana, chose to portray Sisa not as vulnerable or mentally broken but as a spy in the Philippine-American war. The only kinship to Rizal’s Sisa was to use madness as a disguise for espionage.
The fight is about whether migrant workers can speak out without losing their jobs, housing and right to stay.
The role of women, particularly mothers, has been vital in the community’s resistance. They juggle child care, livelihood and their tasks at the barricade.