Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by DAVID Randy
When young activists Jonila Castro, 21, and Jhed Tamano, 22, who were reportedly abducted on the night of Sept. 2, were presented at a press conference by the military and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Conflict (NTF-Elcac), I felt great relief at merely knowing that the girls (...)
, by Ateneo de Manila University Press
A new book TIGAON 1969: Untold Stories of the CPP-NPA, KM and SDK by retired RTC Naga City Judge Soliman M. Santos, Jr. has come off press under the Bughaw imprint of the Ateneo de Manila University Press. It tells and substantiates several previously untold or unpublished stories on how the (...)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
Ten years hence the September 9 to 28, 2013 Zamboanga Siege, the questions of justice and peace arising from and around it continue without both aspirations being fully or even satisfactorily achieved. On top of this, history of the Mindanao conflict seems to keep repeating itself, as if the (...)
, by CAUSA
We, Citizens Against US Wars of Aggression (CAUSA), vehemently condemn the existential threat posed by US-warmongering in the Eastern Hemisphere and the canine devotion of the Philippine state to the whims of US hegemony. We decry the Marcos-Duterte administration’s intensification of its (...)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
The Department of Justice (DOJ) can conduct a Philippine investigation and prosecution of a crime against humanity of willful killing against those most responsible for the extra-judicial killings (EJKs) occasioned by the “war against drugs” under then Davao City Mayor and then Philippine (...)
, by DATUWATA Leticio L., Timuay Justice and Governance
OPEN STATEMENT OF THE TIMUAY JUSTICE AND GOVERNANCE (TJG) ON THE ALARMING SITUATION OF THE HOPELESS TËDURAY AND LAMBANGIAN NON-MORO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (NMIPS) IN SOME VILLAGES OR SITIOS OF BARANGAY BIARONG, SOUTH UPI MAGUINDANAO DEL SUR WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THE MORO CLAN FEUD WHO SETTLED IN THE (...)
, by DAVIDSON Helen
Expert warns of ‘significant escalatory potential’ after Chinese coastguards used water cannon on Philippine boat
A territorial dispute between China and the US-aligned Philippines is at increasingly high risk of escalating into a conflict involving the two superpowers, analysts have said, (...)
, par Mindanao organizations
A week after the second State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr., increases in fuel prices were announced. This movement in fuel prices would eventually affect the price of all commodities while various areas of the country have been swept by typhoon Egay (...)
, by FUENTES Federico, MELENCIO Sonny
Sonny Melencio is a veteran Filipino socialist activist and chairperson of the Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses, PLM). He is also the author of the semi-biographical book, Full Quarter Storms: Memoirs and Writings on the Philippine Left. In this interview, Melencio (...)
, by SCALICE Joseph
I am sorry to hear of the passing of Willie Nepomuceno. He made us all laugh, while satirizing presidents and the powerful.
What many may not know is that he was closely connected to the student radicalism of the KM and SDK from 1970 to 1972 on the eve of martial law. 🧵 (...)
, by DAVID Randy
The one thing I am eager to see in President Marcos’ second State of the Nation Address (SONA) [July 24] is how he will tackle the momentous shift in the country’s foreign policy that has happened during the first year of his presidency. For one cannot think of any policy turn in the past year (...)
, by Kilos Ka
New Agrarian Emancipation Act (RA 11953)
The New Agrarian Emancipation Act or RA 11953 is an act emancipating agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from financial burden by condoning all principal loans, unpaid amortizations, and interests and exempting payment of estate tax on agricultural (...)
, by Kilos Ka
The New Agrarian Emancipation Act or RA 11953 is an act emancipating agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from financial burden by condoning all principal loans, unpaid amortizations, and interests and exempting payment of estate tax on agricultural lands awarded under the comprehensive (...)
, par MEER
Walden Bello is currently the International Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He served in the Philippine House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015 and ran for vice president in the Philippine elections of 2022. He was just named Amnesty (...)
, by Philstar
MANILA, Philippines — Upholding freedom of association and ending contractual labor are among the key workers’ issues that labor groups hope will be included in President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s second State of the Nation Address on Monday, coalition All Philippine Trade Unions said. (...)
, by DE SANTOS Jonathan
MANILA, Philippines — The minimum wage set by tripartite boards are only meant to help workers cope with high prices, a Department of Labor and Employment official said Monday, adding that government encourages employers and their workers to negotiate on increases beyond the minimum.
In an (...)
, by BELLO Walden
The following is the acceptance speech of Amnesty International Philippines’ “Most Distinguished Defender of Human Rights” Awardee Walden Bello, read by his stepdaughter, Annette Ferrer, Hotel Luxent, June 10, 2023.
I would like to thank Amnesty International for this honor of naming me the (...)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
Two years after the 6 June 2021 Masbate landmining incident — resulting in the New People’s Army (NPA) admitted killing of two Absalon civilian adult family members and injuring of another who was a minor, starting with what appears to be a command-detonated anti-personnel mine directed at (...)
, par Amnesty International Philippines
On its 62nd anniversary, Amnesty International Philippines announced its Ignite Awards for Human Rights [[https://www.amnesty.org.ph/ignite-awards] Season 3 winners following the theme “Protect the Protest”, Amnesty’s newest campaign on right to protest launched globally in 2022 (...)
, by DAVID Randy
“If you’ve been in government long enough, you’ll have seen many of these,” said President Marcos the other day by way of downplaying the abrupt ouster of Pampanga representative and former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) from her position as senior deputy speaker of the House of (...)
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