Student leader urges CHR to probe red-tagging, house visits
Members of the volunteer group were photographed and recorded during the activity without their consent.
Nov
2024
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Calumpit residents brace for worse flooding, displacement with the construction of the Malolos-Clark railway project
“Development projects should be planned and implemented in the context of the country's urgent needs and solutions to current dilemmas, and with thorough consideration of its long-term effects on the environment."
Nov
2024
21
IP community prevents PNP, alleged SMC elements from entering ancestral land
“We cannot sleep well these days because we fear that they will enter the community. Our husbands have skipped work and our livelihoods have been paralyzed just so we can defend our ancestral land from their attempts to seize it. Our children sometimes do not have anything to eat.”
Nov
2024
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Nov
2024
21
Mary Jane Veloso will soon be home
Veloso’s case was brought to international attention after she was sentenced to die in Indonesia. Prior to this, her family spent more than five years seeking government assistance to prove that she was a victim of human trafficking.
Nov
2024
21
Making them visible: Invisible Labor archives the workers’ struggle
Invisible Labor's director Joanne Cesario said that the documentary’s success was a collective effort by the workers’ movement and advocates dedicated to preserving labor history. Reflecting on a 2022 gathering of labor rights advocates, Cesario shared how they recognize the urgent need to mainstream labor history, even within the workers’ movement itself.
Nov
2024
20
Unstable platforms: How the ‘gig economy’ is pushing workers off the edge
Platform workers often fall into debt either as a result of working or in the process of getting into the industry. Dr. Cheryl Ruth Soriano noted that in many cases, workers took out loans to use as initial capital, usually to purchase motorcycles, fuel, shoulder maintenance costs, and so on.
Nov
2024
20
Karapatan pushes for DOJ cooperation with ICC probe on Duterte’s drug war
"Ignoring this reality would be counterproductive and will only prolong the entire process and open it to manipulation by the Duterte camp, besides prolonging the agony of the families of victims who have long been seeking justice for their loved ones,” Cristina Palabay said in a statement.
Nov
2024
19
Friendship and politics in the Philippines
Friends sometimes turn a blind eye to the shortcomings and excesses of their friends but we have always overlooked what the US has done to our country over the past century. The myth of friendship persists which allowed the US to expand its bases and military presence while claiming that all this is for our own good. To punish us for the sins of the few ungrateful ones, they even asked a former bully to play their war games in our backyard.
Nov
2024
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2 cases against 3 youth activists dismissed
“I am happy that two of the three cases filed against us by Manila Police were dismissed. It proves that the police have no sufficient evidence for these cases,” one of the three students, Krizia, told Bulatlat.
Nov
2024
18
Red-tagged veteran journalist to gov’t: ‘We need laws to criminalize red-tagging’
“The allegations were baseless, but the implications were severe. Being publicly associated with terrorism puts my life at immediate risk,” Cong Corrales said.
Nov
2024
17
Environmental groups protest against climate Injustice on global day of action
“The imperialist powers of the United States force our country to remain semi-colonial and semi-feudal, with Marcos Jr. acting as a willing puppet. Foreign companies, in collusion with big-business oligarchs, plunder our natural resources, receiving a green light from the government through the enactment of neoliberal policies."
Nov
2024
17
Green groups demand reparation from US, Global North as typhoons devastate the country
Kalikasan People’s Network demands full reparations for the Philippines, citing historical emissions and government failures in the wake of deadly storms.
Nov
2024
17
Gov’t to buy US missile launcher system Typhon?
Discreetly flown into the country last April, the Typhon mid-range capability missile system was deployed during the 39th Balikatan US-Phl joint military exercises, held a few days later (April 22 to May 10).
Nov
2024
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Balik-Tanaw | Controversy on second coming
By living out our faith actively in these difficult times, we align ourselves with God’s purpose and we continuously prepare to what lies ahead. After all, in the passage lies a hidden message of hope and salvation: the moment when God will gather His people, bringing them together from all corners of the earth, safe in His presence and assured of His promise of deliverance and peace.
Nov
2024
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After 14 years, Mary Jane Veloso may return to PH
After almost 14 years of imprisonment, Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino on death row in Indonesia, has a chance of coming back home to the Philippines.
