The Altermidya Network condemns the attacks on community journalists covering the farmers’ protest at the Department of Agrarian Reform earlier today, October 19. Quezon City police attempted to nab Bulatlat reporter Aaron Ernest Cruz while the protest was ongoing, even as Cruz identified...
IT is Pres. Benigno Aquino III’s last year in office but justice remains elusive for the victims of Ampatuan massacre. No perpetrator has been convicted, the victims still cry for justice. Aquino’s vow six years ago to immediately resolve the gruesome massacre...
Protests over the recently concluded high-level meetings of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) were not confined within Metro Manila: they were spread out throughout the entire country as early as May, when APEC economic ministers met in Boracay. If Pres....
Teddy Casiño, former chair of the House Committee on Small Entrepreneurship, talks about how APEC and globalization policies have caused the death of small and medium enterprises in the Philippines.
IBON executive director Sonny Africa talks about what could have been--if the Philippines protected its industries like other Asian countries, would we have developed our own?
Here are the CEOs who caused much traffic in Manila during #APEC2015--and also much suffering for the working class of the world.
Malcolm Guy of the International League of Peoples Struggles talks about the possibility of a world without APEC and imperialist globalization.
The full text of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was finally disclosed after years of being negotiated in utmost secrecy. The public, including the US Congress itself, were kept in the dark on the details of the US-led trade pact until it...
APEC2015 is being held in Manila. IBON Executive Director Sonny Africa speaks on why globalization and APEC have not brought development to the country as promised.
Sa pag-alala sa kanilang mga yumaong mahal sa buhay ngayong Undas, hustisya pa rin ang sigaw ng mga biktima ng Bagyong Yolanda—lalo na at umano’y nagsisinungaling pa rin sa kanila si Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman. Ipinangako ni Soliman na pagdating ng...
This October, around 700 Lumad travelled from Mindanao to Manila to press the Aquino government to #StopLumadKillings. Their journey is their story.
Abala ang gobyerno sa paparating na APEC Summit. Pero para kanino nga ba ang APEC?
Why are the Lumad being killed off? Hear award-winning actress Angeli Bayani on the plight of Mindanao's original settlers.