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...
Originally published on Rappler.com on March 22, 2022, under the Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship program. BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — A farmers’ alliance in the Cordillera called on the government to expand the Department of Agriculture’s fuel subsidy for farmers and...
Vice President Leni Robredo is committed to resume formal peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) if she wins in the May polls, according to her spokesperson Atty. Barry Gutierrez. Representing Robredo in the third episode of...
SANTA CRUZ, Laguna – Several workers at the Coca-Cola plant in Santa Rosa, Laguna province received text messages inviting them to a mysterious event, according to labor center Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (PAMANTIK-KMU). In a March 18 report,...
Recently, two groups in the Philippine Left — the the national-democratic or ND Left, the biggest in the formation, and the democratic socialist Left — have become friendlier, after decades of being cold towards each other. In response to the tyrannical regime of...
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...
Originally published on Rappler.com on March 23, 2022, under the Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship program. BAGUIO CITY–Retired Police General and Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong urged the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC)...
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...
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Taxi and jeepney drivers are struggling about how to make ends meet in the pandemic which is compounded with this week’s big-time oil price hike by oil companies. Leoncio Racaba, a taxicab driver, scratches his head as he passes by a gasoline...
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...
Alyansa sa mga Mamumuong Kontraktwal sa Sugbo (ALSA Kontraktwal-Cebu), an organization of contractual workers, filed a petition before the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas (RTWPB-7) today, March 21, seeking a wage increase in the...
An NDFP peace consultant and two youth activists, dubbed the Himamaylan 3, were arrested at 4:00 AM in Barangay Suay, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental on March 18, 2022. They currently face trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives,...
A broad group of teachers is calling for the swift mobilization of funds for the implementation of the expanded limited face-to-face classes.