President Duterte was more combative during his second state-of-the-nation address last Monday than was during his first SONA. Venting on his prime advocacy, the fight against illegal drugs, and against a wide range of perceived enemies and critics, he came out...
Never mind the 2017 Duterte State of the Nation Address, which was replete with profanities, self-serving claims of current and future progress on various fronts, among them the regime’s brutal and failing war on drugs, and justifications for the use of...
Thirty years under a sham agrarian reform program and one year under a progressive agrarian reform chief.
Many protesters’ faces were set in a grim likeness, smiling-but-not-smiling, a kind of general resignation that this day, like so many others before it, might simply be another day of disappointment for all.
“The mass movement wants Duterte to listen to them.”
“There is a time of reckoning” for everyone, said President Rodrigo Duterte’s chief legal counsel, Salvador Panelo. “Sooner or later,” he intoned, “the law will catch up on (sic) those who use power or wealth to shield themselves from the majesty of the law.”...
By IAN IRVING BAZARTE Bulatlat MANILA – In a special session held today at Batasan Pambansang Complex, Quezon City, the Congress of the Philippines – which includes the House of Representatives and the Senate – approved a five-month extension of President Rodrigo...
Among those arrested are three volunteer teachers of Alcadev.
“Her release was made possible by her family, lawyers, human rights advocates, and UP students and teachers, who raised bail money for her.”
“We in DAR are one with the struggles of the Filipino people.”
The first group of Lakbayanis who will join the SONA rally arrive in UP Diliman.
“We, the poor are the first ones to get killed... When we get caught for the slightest offense, we get killed right away.”
“What did the President decide to give these rights abusers? Not punishment, but more power to abuse.”
They may be in need of help from the government, but displacing them from their homes and stripping them off of their livelihoods to give way to foreign investors are the last kind of “help” they could hope for.
By CHARIS MAE RIVERA Bulatlat MANILA- Students from different schools and levels gathered today, July 18, at St. Scholastica’s College-Manila (SSC) to denounce drug-related extrajudicial killings under President Duterte, as an advanced counterpoint to the State of...
"The fight will continue until we achieve justice; This is an endless search."
“Our call is to stop militarization, not only in the UP Mindanao campus but also in all other campuses all over the country.”
“We showed it is possible for iskolars ng bayan to unite.”
Acute income and economic inequality, the negative phenomenon spawned by neoliberal economics, continues to widen worldwide. Wealth gets concentrated, in scandalous scale, in the hands of the few super-rich, depriving billions of the poor all over the world...
Since the collapse of the Marcos terror regime in 1986, only two post-EDSA presidents have dared invoke the martial law provisions of the 1987 Constitution and to awaken justifiable fears of a return to the abuses and violence of fascist rule. The first president...
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