International delegates have denounced the intertwined crises of corruption, militarization, and climate injustice in rural and indigenous communities across the Philippines.
The taxpayers’ money is being used to fund the ‘fake’ flood-control projects and other billions of ‘unprogrammed funds’ that serve as the pork barrel of the president. Instead of genuine land reform, they resort to graft and corruption."
Katribu described Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as a hypocrite who “celebrates Indigenous heritage in words while waging war against indigenous peoples defending their ancestral lands and right to self-determination.”
Recently, the Lupang Ramos farmers grieved the impact of the successive storms which destroyed their planted corn and string beans.
Farmers are hungry because there’s no compensation when they’re hit by calamities.
“This budget is a brazen continuation of the corrupt pork barrel system that has plundered billions of pesos from the Filipino people through more than 9,000 flood control projects from 2022 to the present."
The vilification of activists, journalists, and labor organizers has become a defining feature of a government that equates criticism with subversion.
Human rights lawyers said that while the award criteria may be objective, the timing and choice of Duterte as awardee are morally and ethically problematic.
Every peso stolen is stolen from student education.
‘Bloom Where You Are Planted’ does not romanticize activism; it humanizes it.
The current price of tobacco varies significantly by type and grade, ranging from P39 ($0.67) to P97 ($1.66) per kilo, as of October 2025.
The reality: Kaufman misrepresented both the ICC Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) and the Philippine government, spreading disinformation that misled victims, media, and the public.
Years of state inaction and corruption have compounded the damages and losses induced by natural calamities.
“Only if the missing P197 billion ($3.3 billion) flood control project funds every year were realigned for funding the local farmers, 6.27 million metric ton of palay can be produced and 84,022 small-scale and 42,011 large-scale driers for post-harvest can be distributed,”
“The opt-out scheme is presented as a choice for those who can pay, but in reality, it becomes a tool to pressure students into paying."
"Just keep fighting because you are what we fought for, young people."
For all his faults and frailties, those who knew him up close, and personal, regarded Behn with profound, palpable affection and respect. Such was the magnitude of his life that his funeral became a political rally.
At least 10 BPO companies in Cebu City violated labor rights and occupational safety standards following the September 30 earthquake, the BPO Industry Employees Network-Cebu reported.
Daniel Gio Caballes, an engineering student, resident artist and a student leader at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) was just documenting the protest when the police arrested him. Now, he is facing charges of tumults and other disturbances of public order, direct assault upon an agent of a person in authority and resistance and serious disobedience to an agent of a person in authority filed by the Manila Police District Baseco Police Station.
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