Standard Chartered, stop funding our destruction!
A Filipina climate activist tells a British multinational bank: "Your money kills people, fuels the climate crisis, and destroys our homes."
Standard Chartered, stop funding our destruction!
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BLOOD RUSH | People’s war for the 21st century
BLOOD RUSH | People’s war for the 21st century
In the midst of a heightened climate of impunity, this current volume locates the place of the people’s war as a revolutionary process in which alternatives are approached in terms of tactical and strategic objectives. In doing so, resistance is foregrounded as both an actual reality and a goal of people’s war taking place in two different and parallel spheres, namely, organized and legal street protest and the underground revolutionary armed struggle.
KMP: Land-grabbers murder farmer, burn down houses
KMP: Land-grabbers murder farmer, burn down houses
“The DAR should be more proactive in resolving land dispute cases, especially when the entities involved employ violence and terror. In this case, instead of protecting the farmers and ensuring their right to the land, DAR watched from afar. The hands of DAR Secretary John Castriciones are stained with blood."
Teachers pedal to Fil-Am War historical sites
Teachers pedal to Fil-Am War historical sites
Members of ACT Teachers Partylist and other progressive groups, along with former ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio pedaled their way to Filipino-American War historical markers today, Feb. 7.
Journalists, advocates bike for detained colleagues
Journalists, advocates bike for detained colleagues
“The ordeal of Frenchie Mae is part of the increasing persecution of the critical media by the forces of a government so intolerant of criticism and dissent that the mere exercise of democratic rights is enough for one to be branded an "enemy of the state."
Balik-Tanaw | Quiet time
Balik-Tanaw | Quiet time
Working in a school environment is such a tough, demanding and challenging mission, yet a gratifying one. It presents me with great joy and also with great challenges as well as frustrations and pains. My work allows me to encounter people from all walks of life, the learned and unschooled, the rich, powerful and famous, and those at the margins of society who are victims of impoverishment and social justice neglect.
#Bulatlat20 | Of finding passion and purpose
#Bulatlat20 | Of finding passion and purpose
Bulatlat community manager Rein Tarinay shares how she has found her passion and why it is worth pursuing.
Group defends Bayan Muna solon vs NCIP-backed tribe leaders
Group defends Bayan Muna solon vs NCIP-backed tribe leaders
“The NCIP’s so-called ‘datus’ vaguely label Rep. Cullamat’s participation in the protest as a ‘disrespectful act.’ We ask these datus: how is speaking in a peaceful protest action ‘disrespectful?’ How is the exercise of one’s democratic rights a rational basis for banning an elected representative from her own ancestral community?”
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#Bulatlat20 | ‘Red-tagging is meant to silence democratic discourse’
#Bulatlat20 | ‘Red-tagging is meant to silence democratic discourse’
But the Philippine media are not called "independent" for nothing. We come from a long tradition of journalists and news organizations who have fiercely resisted any attempts to silence them or force them into conformity.
Court junks charges vs. journalist, labor organizer
Court junks charges vs. journalist, labor organizer
Judge Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio of Branch 209, in a 10-page decision dated Feb. 5, declared that the search warrant used to enter Salem's Mandaluyong home is null and void, rendering the firearms and explosives purportedly found in their possession as inadmissible evidence before the court.
Urban poor group says no to another Duterte presidency
Urban poor group says no to another Duterte presidency
Kadamay said the country's economic decline is brought by the government's "mismanagement" of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, with the Duterte administration prioritizing infrastructure projects amid a health crisis. Kadamay said these infrastructure projects often lead to demolition of urban poor communities, pushing the already vulnerable to homelessness.
Diliman Commune in Photos
Diliman Commune in Photos
Let's look back at the Diliman Commune, which happened 50 years ago.
Journalist red-tagged for reporting plight of tortured Aetas
Journalist red-tagged for reporting plight of tortured Aetas
“Had Parlade also done his research and listened to the oral arguments, he would have known that posts like these are what petitioners claim as evidence of a credible threat of prosecution – threat that can warrant a judicial review of the law he seeks to protect and promote.”
International body to release findings on human rights situation in the Philippines
International body to release findings on human rights situation in the Philippines
“We are concerned with the Anti-Terror law and its impacts on movements."
Groups urge CHR to probe trumped-up murder charges against human rights defenders
Groups urge CHR to probe trumped-up murder charges against human rights defenders
“The arrest warrant is the legal cover for the potential commission of other human rights violations and irregularities such as the planting of firearms and explosives to justify additional non-bailable charges. Such was the experience of other activists such as Rey Casambre, Maoj Maga, Alexander Reyes and many others.”
Resolution on charter change, ‘insensitive, ill-timed’ — groups
Resolution on charter change, ‘insensitive, ill-timed’ — groups
“The Duterte administration's cha-cha will also pave the way for greater depletion and plunder of our natural resources due to corruption and fascist rule. It will also open up space for amendments to political provisions such as lifting of the term limits."
Declare terror law unconstitutional before it causes more harm, high court urged
Declare terror law unconstitutional before it causes more harm, high court urged
Petitioners against the Philippine terror law argued m before the Supreme Court that the controversial law suffers from overbreadth and impermissible vagueness. During the oral arguments, they called on SC to declare the law unconstitutional even before it causes more harm than the evil it is supposed to fight.
2 Aetas ask SC to ‘prevent threatened wrong,’ declare terror law unconstitutional
2 Aetas ask SC to ‘prevent threatened wrong,’ declare terror law unconstitutional
In their petition, the two Aetas decried that the law’s definition of terrorism is “impermissibly vague.” They also argued that it is “overly broad that it sweepingly stifles even innocent and legitimate acts, including the exercise of protected freedoms.”
Holding the fort: The spirit of the barricades lives on
Holding the fort: The spirit of the barricades lives on
The barricaders didn’t retreat to their classrooms but embraced the streets, marching arm-in-arm with farmers, workers, jeepney drivers, echoing their call for national democracy.
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