By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The House Committee on Public Information has approved the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill which consolidates the provisions of several other bills proposed by congressmen, Malacañang, and the Right to Know Right...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The American people ought to realize — and critically respond to — the dangers involved in two directions of national-security policy that their government is pursuing: 1) It is escalating the war against the...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld As if to mock the memory of the 32 journalists and media workers who were among the 58 men and women killed on Nov. 23, 2009, during the Ampatuan Massacre (named after the town where it took place), the Philippine...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld On the 151st birth anniversary of The Great Plebeian, Gat Andres Bonifacio, nationwide protest actions calling for government accountability and genuine societal change were launched, inspired by the...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The recent riots in Ferguson, Missouri and the spontaneous protests across the United States – spurred by a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black...
“What is more honorable for us to do than resist the unjust systems for women?”
Ama Nelson is gone but his wisdom will shine and live in us forever.
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Ten years is a long time to await justice for the massacre of striking farm and sugar mill workers at the Hacienda Luisita Incorporated (HLI) -- the sprawling 6,435-hectare sugar plantation owned by the...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever, which the World Health Organization (WHO) describes as “a severe, often fatal illness in humans,” is not contagious until the infected person develops...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star They’ve had enough under the Aquino government. People in Mindanao are outraged. Here’s why: Altogether 55 Philippine Army infantry battalions, backed up by the PNP and paramilitary groups, are now deployed...
Jose Rizal once declared: the youth is the hope of our nation. Five decades ago, his words radically transformed into a concrete reality, event organizers said.
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Ten years is a long time to await justice for the massacre of striking farm and sugar mill workers at the Hacienda Luisita Incorporated (HLI) -- the sprawling 6,435-hectare sugar plantation owned by the...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld So keenly anticipated by much of the media, the “break” between Vice-President Jejomar Binay and President Benigno Aquino III has not come to pass. On the contrary. Despite the attempts of the usual Binay opponents...
That tragic incident’s commemoration ought to focus not only on the long delay in obtaining justice for the massacre victims.
“Your father was no doubt Abra's man. There is so much Abra in him and Abra has so much of him. When the time comes when you get to visit the place, hug the people tight -- they loved your father in a way no one among us can love him. They loved him because he was one of them, fought for them, lived his life like them so they could change their lives for the better."
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The Aquino government, most especially the Philippine military, has displayed nothing but disdain and absolute lack of sympathy for the kin of murdered transgender woman Jennifer Laude as well as her German...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Because he thinks his current problems are at least partly the doing of some Aquino administration personalities, among them his putative rival in 2016, Manuel Roxas II, Vice-President Jejomar Binay has criticized...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “Og iskwela puron...” In Talaingod Manobo, “I wish to go to school…” Thus do the lumad (indigenous people) children express their eagerness for education, firmly supported by their parents, grassroots...
Fisherfolk and urban poor residents lambasted the Aquino administration for turning a blind eye on their rights and demands as it pushes for the grand sell out of Laguna Lake.
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