Memory as defiance: Remembering RJ Ledesma
Death is used as a warning but memory becomes a form of defiance.
Oct
2025
12
Group condemns intimidation of mission delegates by elements linked to NTF-ELCAC
“There is no law that compels disclosure of the names of participants or delegates, especially in advocacy, humanitarian, or mission-related activities."
Oct
2025
12
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Oct
2025
11
Green groups, climate survivors demand polluters to pay ‘climate debt’
Years of state inaction and corruption have compounded the damages and losses induced by natural calamities.
Oct
2025
11
‘Millions could’ve been fed by P197 billion flood control funds,’ – Rice farmers
“Only if the missing P197 billion ($3.3 billion) flood control project funds every year were realigned for funding the local farmers, 6.27 million metric ton of palay can be produced and 84,022 small-scale and 42,011 large-scale driers for post-harvest can be distributed,”
Oct
2025
11
Groups denounce continuing killing of non-Moro IPs in Bagsamoro region
“His death again highlights the systemic violence and land-grabbing that Indigenous Peoples continue to face in their ancestral lands.”
Oct
2025
11
Filipino migrant workers in Canada call for livable wage, job security
“In an industry where precarious jobs, wage theft, unsafe conditions can be commonplace, where workers — especially migrants, women — face intimidation, fear of reprisal, for speaking up, it is not enough to just be part of a union. We must be part of a community. We only win the fight if we are part of a community,”
Oct
2025
10
ICC rejects Duterte’s plea for interim release
The Chamber said that while the Defense limits its argument to the fact that Duterte is 80 years old, and his alleged condition based on medical reports, it failed to substantiate “how detention is so detrimental that it justifies his release.”
Oct
2025
8
Seeds of hope: Mangyan communities struggle for self-reliance
"The good thing is, we conduct these livelihood training, together with their capacitation on leadership and paralegal. This also helps the sustainability of the indigenous communities in the long term."
Oct
2025
8
Church helps Mangyan leaders defend rights, communities
“The training teaches us how to fight for our rights. Some of us are no longer silent nor do we submit in fear."
Oct
2025
8
From Philippines to Palestine: Resisting rampant rights violations
“What we are witnessing is one of the most brutal genocides in modern history.”
Oct
2025
8
Marcos Jr’s emergency palay procurement ‘too little, too late’
The Philippines is among the top rice producers globally but remains one of the world’s largest rice importers, with over 2.4 million farmers depending on the crop for livelihood.
Oct
2025
8
Farmers reel from typhoon onslaught, low palay prices, insufficient state support
"We spend so much on fertilizer and pesticides, plus other expenses during planting and harvesting."
Oct
2025
7
Filipino activists march in solidarity with Palestinians, two years since Al Aqsa Flood
Mong Palatino, secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), said that the current genocide in the Palestine did not start two years ago, but a culmination of over a century of conflict.
Oct
2025
5
‘Shameless’ | Victims’ families of ‘drug-war’ decry Senate push for Duterte house arrest
“What else can we expect from a Senate that includes the likes of Ronald ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa and Bong Go, who were Duterte’s lieutenants in his bloody drug war?"
Oct
2025
5
Planned opt-out scheme, budget cuts compromise free education
“The opt-out scheme is presented as a choice for those who can pay, but in reality, it becomes a tool to pressure students into paying."
