People Surge, along with other survivors groups and people’s mutual aid movements under the newly-formed Daluyong National Network of Disaster Survivors, are calling for the ouster of President Benigno Aquino III for his continuing “disastrous criminal negligence,” a full year after Yolanda.
The survey, conducted by IBON in six provinces of hardest-hit Eastern Visayas, shows that immediate relief and rescue by the local government units (LGUs) was felt most by 59% of the 1,094 respondents.
An IBON research project featured cases of communities, which showed that organic farming could be used as weapon for landless and poor peasants to assert their right to land and to their own future.
Recalling life as a migrant worker, Magdalena shares her secret on how she was able to endure long years working abroad. Apart from the salary given her, she demanded her boss three simple things: “Treat me as a human being, provide me food and a give me a little...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld These are not the best of times, and this country is not the fun place the tourism posters say it is -- not for many Filipinos who feel they’re getting poorer and poorer each day, not for human rights defenders or...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star It isn’t solely mine. Bobbie and I gradually made it into what it’s today, but since I have tended it through the years she calls it “your secret garden.” Because it has rewarded me abundantly with psychic...
The HAGUE, the Netherlands-- Thousands of supporters marched through the streets of The Hague, Nov. 1, to show their solidarity with the people of Kobanê, a Kurdish city in Syria which is under attack by the ISIS for over a month now. The protesters from various...
“It is disappointing that no government agency, like DOLE, educated us on SAP [Social Amelioration Program) and its cash bonus because obviously, the millers and planters would not likely place our interest ahead of theirs.”
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The quotation is from Fr. Pete Montallana, a Catholic priest who has spent 20 years as missionary among the Agta-Dumagat tribe in the Quezon portion of the Sierra Madre mountains. By continuing to violate the...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Much to the consternation of US and Philippine officialdom, the brutal killing of Jennifer Laude by suspect Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton has placed the issue of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)...
As a former US Marine, I am disgusted to learn about the killing of Filipina transgender woman Jennifer Laude in Olongapo City, with USMC Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton as the prime suspect. I am disgusted that my so-called brethren continue to kill, pillage, rape, and burn the essence that is humanity.
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld His numbers may be falling and those of one of his putative opponents rising, but Jejomar Binay is at this point still the leading candidate for the Presidency in 2016. Binay still topped the list of preferred...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The AFP-PNP counterinsurgency forces have done it again: they arrested two elderly persons in Mexico, Pampanga whom they mistook for “top leaders” of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army....
Happy Teachers’ Month and Happy World Teachers’ Day, Job Orders!
Our government has all the banners of acknowledgement for our teachers. But on important matters such as of rights, dignity, and improving quality of teachers’ lives, the government seems deaf and blind to calls for teachers' humane and dignified treatment.
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Trapped in a vicious circle. That’s how the US government has found itself since George W. Bush started a “war on terror” by invading Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, dragging US allies into a “coalition...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The brouhaha over the alleged “violent” protest on campus by University of the Philippines (UP) student activists against the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) and its principal architect and implementer,...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Reacting to demands that he fire Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Alan Purisima for, among other reasons, the involvement of policemen in robberies, extortion, kidnapping, even murder and other crimes,...
By Karl Begnotea Bulatlat.com The abundant natural resources and biologically diverse ecosystems of the province of Nueva Vizcaya, known as the Watershed Haven of Cagayan Valley, are greatly imperiled by foreign large-scale mining and militarization. I witnessed...
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