By DANIELA MAURICIOBulatlat.com “This happens every year—once harvest season comes, prices crash. Farmers can no longer recover their investment. Now, they can’t even sell their produce; they’re forced to give tomatoes away or throw them out. There must be immediate compensation for the farmers...
MANILA – Progressive educators decried the red-tagging of two bookstores, saying that this is another unmistakable attack on academic freedom and critical thinking. “It is not surprising that Popular Bookstore and Solidaridad Bookshop were targeted by the latest...
MANILA – A Lumad council leader was arrested by state forces last March 18, Friday. In a statement, the Save Our Schools Network said that Lumad leader Edwin Oribawan Sr. was arrested by combined forces of the Philippine National Police and the 72nd Infantry Battalion...
MANILA – Three sets of complaints were filed against National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) National Spokesperson Lorraine Badoy before the Office of the Ombudsman today, March 23. This after Badoy red-tagged Vice President and...
A broad group of teachers is calling for the swift mobilization of funds for the implementation of the expanded limited face-to-face classes.
Sweden-based Qurium Media Foundation released their internal forensic investigation on the three-month long distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against several online news outfits in the Philippines, tracing it to a group of Filipino hackers that were earlier hailed by the government’s counterinsurgency arm as “a group of computer geniuses.”
For a 52-year-old jeepney driver, the incessant oil price hikes may force them to stop operating. Worse, it will keep them from putting food on their table.
armers and fisherfolk are among those badly hit as oil prices continue to increase.
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine is a reflection of the worsening inter-imperialist conflict in a multi-polar world.
For press freedom advocates revisiting the case of slain journalist and environmentalist Gerry Ortega, the country’s justice system failed to deliver justice even when it had the opportunity.
Five civilians were killed allegedly by members of the Philippine military including volunteer teachers Chad Booc and Gelejurain Ngujo II.
For Filipino farmers, no amount of historical distortion can wash away the sins of martial law.
While sugar planters scored a brief victory with the 20-day temporary restraining order on the importation of 200,000 metric tons (MT) of refined sugar, the government is not backing down on its importation directive — a policy that will definitely hurt the local sugar industry, most especially 69,000 sugar workers in Negros Occidental doing back-breaking work in sugarcane plantations and haciendas.