Rural women condemned the Department of Agrarian Reform’s complicity in massive land-grabbing by the Villars, Aranetas, Cojuangcos, Ayalas, and foreign investors.
News in Pictures | Filipino journalists light candles for colleagues slain in Gaza
According to Committee to Protect Journalists, as of Nov. 7, thirty-seven journalists and media workers were confirmed dead. Majority of those who died were Palestinians with 32 deaths.
Ombudsman reprimands red-taggers Parlade, Badoy
NUPL Chairperson Edre Olalia said that while they did not achieve full legal redress, the decision “can be viewed as a loud warning shot, as it were.”
Nolcom mum about the disappearance 2 Cordillera activists
“It is frustrating that government agencies are violating RA 10353. We just want to know if our loved ones are in the custody of Nolcom or not,” Eli Capuyan, Dexter’s brother, said. “It’s been 40 days since the two went missing.”
Children, advocates bike against toxic pesticides
Advocates urged the Philippine government to ban highly hazardous pesticides and support agroecological alternatives.
For these workers, unionism does wonders
“When I became a regular worker, I joined the union immediately. The union serves as our voice.”
NUPL vows to continue lawyering for the people
“In short, we are attacked because we take on cases, clients and issues which many others cannot or will not take on.”
IT professionals, activists condemn signing of SIM registration bill into law
“The signed SIM Registration Law poses problems for privacy rights as the Philippine government is notorious for illegal surveillance and violations of data privacy. The SIM registration can become a vast surveillance network used against the people.”
Tinang farmers: We are not criminals
“For 27 years, we have been deprived of our right to till the land. Why is it that we are the ones being treated as criminals here?”
Court acquits 2 journalists of cyber libel
Ansbert Joaquin maintained that libel should be decriminalized, adding that imprisonment as punishment, if convicted, caused him and his family mental torment.
Protesters rage over Comelec’s failure
A day after the May 9 elections, supporters of Leni Robredo, members of election watchdogs and progressive groups hold a symbolic protest in front of the Commission on Elections office in Manila against what they called as the ‘dirtiest’ election in recent years.