“Many Filipinos cannot afford to eat rice for every meal. No more wasted rice on the tables of farmers and workers?"
“The struggle for a just and lasting peace in the Philippines is not a struggle isolated from the people of the world; we will continue to fervently campaign until the demands of the Filipino people are met and activists no longer live in fear of reprisal."
Jesús Manuel Santiago, fondly called Koyang Jess, launched his first ever exhibit titled “Mukhang Pamilyar” at the Gallery One in the UP Fine Arts Gallery in Diliman, Quezon City.
Women’s group Gabriela similarly denounced the Reciprocal Access Agreement, citing that Japan has yet to apologize for its atrocities during the war that involved sexual slavery.
SAKA, or Sama-Samang Artista para sa Kilusang Agraryo, was recently invited by arts center Para Site to visit Hong Kong and share about the struggle for agrarian reform in the Philippines. They produced a booklet entitled, "Three Songs, Three Recipes." SAKA, an alliance of artists concerned with genuine land reform, rural development, and food security, bonded with migrant workers over food and music.
A decade after Yolanda, survivors have to grapple with the absence of reliable and potable water supply, inadequate housing space and absence of certificate of ownership, high transportation costs, limited income opportunity and food insecurity, and absence of clear mechanism to hear grievances.
“If Marcos Jr., as the president of the country and a former head of this department, didn’t resolve the agriculture and food crisis, now, he appointed an oligarch."
“To the president, I can only hope that you heed the calls of the masses and end this pattern of disappearances and human rights violations. I hope to see a nation whose leaders direct their efforts not to oppression but to what its countrymen need."
Sisters of two farmers who were abducted in a farming community in Nueva Ecija are still looking for their loved one. Their alleged abduction brings to 11 the total number of disappearances in a span of 16 months under the Marcos Jr. administration.
Families of the disappeared gathered on Nov. 2 at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani to remember their loved ones who are believed to have been abducted by state forces.
“We are linked by a common fight against US imperialism which is the main backer of Zionism."
As the deadline for traditional jeepney consolidation approaches PISTON urged the government to junk the program as it will only prolong the suffering of jeepney drivers.
The event aims for the LGBTQIA+ community to achieve the desired equality in society.
"This is clearly a harassment suit because I wasn’t even present at the SONA rally. I was on a trip abroad. I was already mid-air when the rally happened."
Torture survivors Raymond and Reynaldo Manalo have filed their appeal before a Malolos court that earlier acquitted retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan and several members of the military auxiliary force earlier this month.
"Though factually baseless and clearly malicious, I cannot merely dismiss Respondent Duterte’s red-tagging and accompanying grave threats as either figurative, joking, or otherwise benign considering that many victims of extrajudicial killings, illegal arrest and detentions, excommunicado confinements, forced disappearances and other analogous attacks were called or labeled 'communists,' members or supporters of the NPA, “terrorists,” and like labels before they were attacked."
“We are justified in opposing high rice prices that burden consumers and even farmers who cannot afford it anymore. The public must strongly oppose and protest against exorbitant rice and food prices. However, Marcos Jr’s price ceiling and other palliative measures do not explain why rice is expensive in the country, and more importantly, none of these address the most basic problems of rice farmers."
No matter what history timeline you believe in, you cannot deny the fact that the State of Israel was only established 75 years ago. If you read up on the diaries of the founders of Zionism, you will find out that the land where Israeli Zionists are settling in right now was already inhabited by the Palestinian people. No, it was not a desert.
Bulatlat’s training is part of its project titled, "Advancing Human rights Reporting in the Philippines as a Tool for Upholding Gender Fairness, Democracy and Accountability" through its publisher Alipato Media Center. The six-month project is being supported by the German Embassy Manila.
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