Filipino teachers are seeking an additional P600 billion in funding for the Department of Education to address the shortages in facilities for a safe return of students to schools.
Teachers seek 600-B additional budget for safe return to schools
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Labor group condemns arrest warrant vs UP student-leader, driver’s group president
KMU said that the “ratified” warrant stems from a peaceful protest that was held in July 2020.
Rights, envi defenders say Marcos Jr.’s UN speech reeks of hypocrisy, empty promises
Human rights defenders and environmental advocates are up in arms over what they referred to as a “grand show of hypocrisy” as Ferdinand Marcos Jr. addressed the United Nations’ General Assembly.
4 arrested while fishing in Laguna de Bay
They were reportedly fined P2,500 ($43) each over a supposed offense that, according to Pamalakaya, the maritime police based in Taguig City was “unable to identify.”
Artists pay tribute to the late poet Richard Gappi
Isang premyadong makata, mamamahayag, at manggagawang pangkultura, inialay ni Richard Regadillo Gappi (1971-2022) ang kaniyang sining sa pagsisilbi sa bayan. Naging masugid na kontributor ng bulatlat.com si Gappi, kilala rin sa palayaw na “Insad.”
Art exhibit features Neil Doloricon’s social realism
‘Kamao ang Hugis ng Puso’ alludes to the essence of Doloricon’s life and work, his passion (puso) being always entangled with a cause and struggle (kamao).
Films depicting Martial Law horrors can help fight disinformation
“(These films) are a big chunk of our collective memory as a people of what happened during the Marcos era and these we have to preserve.”
News in Pictures: Students protest budget cuts on education
“The education sector will suffer from huge budget cuts while the NTF-ELCAC [National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict] enjoys a big allocation, or P10 billion budget for silencing the people’s dissent. Both the offices of Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte will have bloated confidential and intelligence funds.”
OPINION: Why former Inquirer journos oppose management settlement of libel case
Engracia, Carvajal and I might not have gotten our wish for a full-blown trial and ruling on the merits. But we’ve sent across our message: Fearless journalists who won’t be silenced are alive and well. They will fight for what’s true and right in defense of press freedom.
Pakil residents protest construction of hydropower plant
Townsfolk fear loss of ‘nurturing, healing spring water’ from nearby mountains.
Red tarred-and-feathered: when scholarly texts are haunted in Philippine publishing scene
It’s historically farcical as it is no less lethal that cold-war anti-communist crusade and red tagging trope earned new vigor at present. Our historical moment now is most decadent when the worst elite of the country captured the reigns of the state by corrupting the election mechanisms of formal democracy.