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SIM Registration Law did not address the incidence of cybercrime after it was enacted into law under Ferdinand Marcos Jr’ s administration
“The purpose and message of the warning is also clear, particularly to the organizations they belong to and to Bicolanos in general, that Marcos administration is ready to suppress free organizing, legitimate criticism, and just resistance."
One mining exploration has brought all eight barangays of this town together in opposition, with local councils warning that disturbance in one part of its subwatersheds could cascade the effect on water sources, farming, and other local livelihoods.
The continued failure to integrate time allowances earned by prisoners while under BJMP custody into their official Bureau of Corrections records has contributed to prolonged detention and forced some inmates to seek costly legal remedies simply to secure their release.
The mountains are not simply places where minerals can be extracted.
Institutional authority should not become a license to silence criticism
The Society of Trans Women of the Philippines (STRAP) raised this point at the launch of Project Kierra, a trans-led initiative that seeks to document the killings and campaign for justice.
Her death should serve as a stark reminder: a feminism that aligns itself with the empire is no feminism at all—it is merely the soft edge of oppression.
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“She ultimately chose to travel to the Philippines to volunteer with marginalized communities because she was so moved by the plight of migrant workers and understood that to truly understand and solve this, the answers are in the Philippines itself.”
Consumers expect their items to arrive in a snap. But this is not simply because of technology – but because of the women workers’ labor inside those massive warehouses.
"We hope there will be no more mining projects and that these mining companies will leave, because I know that mining is not the only way a community can achieve progress."
"Marcos is at the top, and those at the lower levels cannot be the only ones held accountable."
From the island and mountains of Rizal to the watershed of Samar Island, wind energy projects are being built on the forests that protect communities from floods and landslides.
“As researchers and members of alternative media groups, we do not confine ourselves to social media, secondhand, thirdhand information. We do not confine ourselves to desks."
“This success in Dupax del Norte is a success against mining all over the Philippines."
“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?’”
Cordillera’s rich natural resources have attracted local and international companies eager to profit from them. But for the Indigenous Peoples of the region, everything is interconnected. The destruction of their land means the destruction of their life, culture, and identity. Their resistance to so-called development projects has spanned many decades.
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Balikan natin kung bakit tinawag na ‘perfect failure’ ang pag-atake ng United States sa Bay of Pigs sa Cuba.
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