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PHOTOS BY AYA SANTOS TEXT BY DEE AYROSO Bulatlat.com They came together with one thing in mind: justice for their kin. The names were written in white letters on 10 pieces of black tarpaulin. Hanging from steel bars, the tarp looked like gravestones in the middle...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com For Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Teddy Casiño, there is indeed space for progressive groups in the electoral and parliamentary arena, but it is now constricting. “It is getting smaller and smaller because the Arroyo...
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 6:24 p.m. , Sept. 16, 2006 Three members of the progressive partylist group Anakpawis (literally, toiling masses) were abducted anew in Malolos, the city capital of the province of Bulacan, a report from the provincial chapter of the human...
Marking the sixth month of Rep. Crispin Beltran’s illegal detention, the Free Ka Bel Movement (FKBM) together with Anakpawis Party List led a two-day vigil and protest rally of labor unions, progressive organizations and Beltran’s supporters demanding the...
Press Statement April 12, 2010 Davao City --- Militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU-Southern Mindanao) and Anakpawis Southern Mindanao labeled the proposition made by the government and other economists to freeze wage increase as a vicious practice of...
NEWS RELEASE April 11, 2010 DAVAO CITY – After receiving reports that the military is conducting partisan electoral campaigning from among college students--campaigning directed against members of the progressive partylists, the Pagbabago, People's Movement for...
Media Release April 11, 2010 As the election season again heats up, the continuing illegal detention of an Anakpawis Partylist and Kilusang Mayo Uno officer reminds the Filipino workers and people of how ruthless the Arroyo regime can get in trying to manipulate or...
By RONALYN V. OLEA and JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Elements of the military have been roaming around urban centers in Metro Manila, Southern Tagalog and Mindanao with the objective of not only of driving these groups from the communities but campaigning against their candidates.
PRESS RELEASE March 1, 2010 DIGOS CITY --- The seven lumad and farmer leaders from ANAKPAWIS and KATRIBU partylist tagged as the “Sta.Cruz 7” filed their counter affidavits today before the Clerk of Court at the Almendras Hall of Justice, Digos, Davao Del Sur Hall...
PRESS RELEASE 01 March 2010 Instead of bombarding Filipinos with advertisements claiming improved livelihood under her term, Gloria Arroyo should better enact our long-overdue call of a legislated, nationwide P125 wage increase. This was the challenge of Anakpawis...
NEWS RELEASE February 26, 2010 Anakpawis Partylist today demanded the Department of Agriculture (DA) to immediately address the effects of El Nino and provide urgent assistance and 100% subsidy to farmers and fisherfolks affected by the drought throughout the...
PRESS RELEASE February 27, 2010 Cagayan de Oro City, MISAMIS ORIENTAL – Military men in fulll battle gear have been going from one house to another in different municipalities in Sorsogon City since last week in the pretext of conducting a survey among the...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Although Douglas Dumanon hailed from a middle-class family, he joined and served without hesitation the struggle of the toiling masses, especially that of the workers and the urban poor.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Unlike other post-martial law administrations that used assumption of jurisdictions (AJ) mostly to quell already ongoing strikes, the Arroyo regime has used these orders not only to quell ongoing strikes but also to make sure workers cannot strike at all. As a result, fewer strikes have been recorded, allowing Arroyo to claim that “industrial peace” is improving. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Writer, blogger and legislative staff Maureen Hermitanio did not expect that she would be put under surveillance by state agents. In four separate incidents between Oct. 24 and Nov. 3, two men visited Hermitanio's residence...
In a historic convention of urban poor, peasant and labor leaders, Anakpawis, the largest partylist of marginalized sectors in the Philippines, tagged the issues of land distribution and still unresolved massacre of striking workers in Luisita as “flagship social justice problems” that presidentiables should seriously address now.
By MAO HERMITANIO Contributed to Bulatlat.com Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng may have left the country last month but the need for relief and rehabilitation efforts have not subsided especially in Central Luzon provinces devastated by the surging flood. Volunteers of...
Because of Surging Oil Prices Davao City --- Less than 50 days before Christmas and yet, due to rising prices of oil products and rice in Mindanao, the poor would have a sad Christmas, Anakpawis partylist said. “The dismal state of the poor in Davao and in the...
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