Video: In Isla Puting Bato, Hope Springs Amid Despair
Hope Springs on Isla Puting Bato
Video: In Isla Puting Bato, Hope Springs Amid Despair
Farmers Asked Mar Roxas to Stop Araneta Landgrabbing
Farmers Asked Mar Roxas to Stop Araneta Landgrabbing
Farmers from Barangay Tungkong Mangga, San Jose Del Monte City, Bulacan protested at the offices of Araneta Properties, Inc. in Makati against its landgrabbing. Leaders and members of Tungkong Mangga Upland Farmers Association, Inc. (TMUFAI), San Isidro Samahang...
Another Proposed Dam, Likely Destruction of Watershed, Opposed in Mindanao
Another Proposed Dam, Likely Destruction of Watershed, Opposed in Mindanao
(Bulatlat.com) DAVAO City --- Indigenous group KATRIBU Partylist together with environmentalist group PANALIPDAN Southern Mindanao and Tamugan Farmers Association (TAFA) held a protest action as part of its commemoration of the Earth Hour (March 27) and the World...
Live Webcast: Kabataan Partylist’s Education Agenda
Live Webcast: Kabataan Partylist’s Education Agenda
Kabataan Rep. Mong Palatino will discuss with Bulatlat.com his party's education agenda, in a live webcast interview on March 24, Wednesday, at 2 p.m.
15 Years After Death of Flor Contemplacion, OFWs Remain Vulnerable as Ever
15 Years After Death of Flor Contemplacion, OFWs Remain Vulnerable as Ever
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
OFWs and domestic helpers are still going through the same nightmare that Flor Contemplacion suffered. Many rot in jail. Several have been sentenced to death. Thousands suffer abuse from their employers and neglected by their government. To these OFWs, the Arroyo regime is "chief executioner of the rights and welfare of OFWs."
Two Accomplished Women and Their Advocacies
Two Accomplished Women and Their Advocacies
Angel Locsin, Advocate for Women and Environment She was voted the most beautiful Filipina of 2009. Her face adorns the billboards along Edsa. She has huge presence in both television and radio with her shows and advertisements. She has bagged various recognitions...
A Primer on the Illegal Arrest, Detention and Torture of 43 Health Workers
A Primer on the Illegal Arrest, Detention and Torture of 43 Health Workers
Who are the 43 health workers? The 43 health workers, also known as “Morong 43”, are health professionals and volunteer community health workers who were arrested in Rizal on February 6, following a raid by the combined forces of the Armed Forces of the Philippines...
Live Webcast: Kin of Morong 43 Speak of Despair
Live Webcast: Kin of Morong 43 Speak of Despair
In a forum today, March 13, between the relatives and lawyers/supporters of the Morong 43, the relatives expressed the difficulties they face more than a month after the 43 health workers were taken by soldiers during a health training in Morong, Rizal. They spoke of the hardships they have to endure each time they visit their relatives in Camp Capinpin, the harassment many of them continue to face from the military, and of their despair in seeing their loved ones behind bars.
Video: Filipino Women Take a Day Off to March Vs Oppression, Injustice
Video: Filipino Women Take a Day Off to March Vs Oppression, Injustice
Video: Filipino Women Take a Day Off to March
15 Soldiers — Not 11 — Killed in Mindoro Ambush, Reds Claim
15 Soldiers — Not 11 — Killed in Mindoro Ambush, Reds Claim
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said today that 15 soldiers -- not 11 as initially reported in the media -- died in the firefight between government troops and New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, on March 6.
Group Releases Scathing Report on Violations of Workers’ Rights in Philippines
Group Releases Scathing Report on Violations of Workers’ Rights in Philippines
The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that documents and monitors human-rights violations committed against workers in the Philippines, released today a report that says that, in the past 50 years, unemployment in the country is highest in the nine years that President Arroyo is in power and that attacks on workers and unionists have worsened.
Download: Hunger, Repression, and Resistance — Workers’ Condition Under the Nine Years of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Download: Hunger, Repression, and Resistance — Workers’ Condition Under the Nine Years of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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Download: Court of Appeals Decision Junking Morong 43’s Habeas-Corpus Petition
Download: Court of Appeals Decision Junking Morong 43’s Habeas-Corpus Petition
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Download: Fact-Finding Report on the Death of Gregan Cardeño
Download: Fact-Finding Report on the Death of Gregan Cardeño
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