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By exposing the hunger and systemic oppression endured by the peasant masses of Negros the play acts as a vital form of resistance against historical distortion and romanticized tourism.
For most workers who live on a tight budget, the suspension of wage hike is more than a legal development. It is a delay in money they had been counting on.
The termination of Kyle Enero is a textbook case of how corporations use vague allegations and administrative procedures to silence labor leaders.
"When judicial actors are threatened for applying the law, it is the international legal order itself that is placed at risk. Threats and coercive measures also impact the ability of victims to seek justice."
Will nuclear energy production help in energy security?
Class love is what both revolutionary poet Kerima “Ka Ella” Tariman and activist-musician Ericson Acosta carried on—enduring the vast distance between them due to political tasks in the countryside. Sacrificing their life as a couple by dedicating themselves and their art to the toiling peasant masses and their fight for land.
Counterterrorism is again being used as a pretext to justify and normalize growing US military presence in the country.
“Negros 19 is the biggest single mass casualty involving international humanitarian law violations that we have documented and looked into in the recent years."
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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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