Ni Jayson Enebrad | Baretang Bikolnon NAGA CITY, Camarines Sur – Nagtipon ang nasa 300 human rights activists mula sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng Bicol Region para sa ikalawang asembliya ng Defend Bicol Stop The Attacks Network noong Hulyo 18 sa Naga City. Tinalakay sa pagtitipon ang human...
By SONNY AFRICAIBON Foundation (Last of three parts) Revenue unfriendly On the expenditure side, the proposed budget for 2024 doesn’t spend on pressing economic needs while increasing spending to boost corporate profits and narrow political self-interest. This is made...
By SONNY AFRICAIBON Foundation (Second of three parts) Growth unfriendly Band-aids are not necessarily a bad thing. Social spending can be wielded to improve people’s conditions – which is important in itself even if not prioritized by the administration. But it can...
By SONNY AFRICAIBON Foundation (First of three parts) Finance Sec. Benjamin Diokno made an incredible claim at the opening of the Senate budget hearings: “If you look at the composition of the budget it’s talagang pro-poor.” But the budget’s numbers tell a...
By ABHIE GANADOBulatlat.com MANILA – Two human rights defenders from Southern Tagalog said that their trumped-up charges are evidence of how the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) is used to silence critical voices. “[O]ur state forces are weaponizing the [ATA] just to silence...
Global groups condemn judicial harassments of rights defenders The government’s National Security Program (NSP) has the problem of poverty and underdevelopment backwards, seeing it as product of armed conflict and not the other way around, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan...
Migrante International (MI) called for a deeper investigation into reports of free riders taking advantage of the government’s repatriation program for distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Reacting to Commission of Audit’s (COA) finding that thousands of...
The Communist Party of the Philippines vowed to attain justice for Benito Tiamzon, Wilma Austria and their companions it said were massacred in Catbalogan, Samar a year ago today, August 21. In a statement, CPP chief information officer Marco Valbuena reiterated their...
Today’s young generation may be engrossed with mobile and video games, but in this year’s Dula Kadayawan, young indigenous and Moro people got to participate and showcase their traditional games to the public, untouched by modernization.
Bukod sa gawain ng kanyang simbahan, aktibong magpahayag si Pastor Irma sa mga pagkilos sa lansangan, gayundin sa Facebook.
Growing billionaire wealth amid increasing poverty, worsening joblessness, and stagnant wages shows that it’s high time for the Marcos Jr administration to heed calls for a wealth tax on the country’s billionaires.
Matapos ipagmayabang ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sa nakaraang State of the Nation Address malaking tulong ang mga Kadiwa store sa pagpapababa ng gastos, inalmahan naman ito ng mga karaniwang mamimili.
Beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) are encouraged to apply and avail of the lifeline electricity rate subsidy