Mahigit isang buwan na nang muling simulan ang demolisyon ng mga tahungan sa Navotas sa isang bahagi ng Manila Bay. Katwiran ng lokal ng pamahalaan na naglabas ng utos ng demolisyon noong Pebrero, ‘iligal’ at ‘marumi’ ang mga tahungan. Paliwanag ng Navotas LGU, sinusunod lamang nito ang...
“Araw-araw kaming nagpapagod sa pagtanim ng tabako na nagdadala ng tubo para sa tobacco companies at badyet para sa mga ahensya.” Ito ang daing ng mga magsasaka mula sa Ilocos sa National Tobacco Administration (NTA). Lumahok sa dayalogo ang mga magsasaka sa ilalim ng...
PORMAL na inanunsiyo ang paparating na iba’t-ibang grupo ng pambansang minorya sa Maynila para sa Lakbayan 2017. Mahigit 3,000 Bangsamoro at katutubo ang magtitipun-tipon mula sa iba’t ibang probinsya para ipahayag ang pagtutol nila sa lumalalang atake laban sa mga...
Maraming nagtatanong kay Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano, kalihim ng Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), kung ano ang kanyang nararamdaman sa nalalapit na pagharap niya sa Commission on Appointments (CA). Sa darating na Agosto 30, boboto ang CA kung ikukumpira nga ba o...
Ngayong araw, ibinasura ng Commission on Appointments (CA) sa bisa ng 13 boto ang appointment ni Dept. of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Sec. Judy Taguiwalo. Si Taguiwalo ang ikatlong opisyal ng gabinete na ni-reject ng CA, kasunod ni dating Environment...
Noong Agosto 10, naglunsad ng talakayan ang AlterMidya Network hinggil sa Truth Telling Through Alternative Media sa mga estudyante ng Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) Manila. Sa pakikipagtulungan ng PUP Center for Language and Literary Studies, idinaos...
“Ang talas pa ng memory niya dito, oh,” banggit ng kanyang anak habang pinapanood ang isang panayam kay Eliseo “Ka Elsie” Estares noong ika-40 anibersaryo ng La Tondeña strike noong 2015. At totoo, kahit sa edad na 82, malinaw pa ring nailahad ni Ka Elsie kung paano...
SORSOGON— Thousands of people from all walks of life from all over the Bicol Region flocked to Barangay Sta. Cruz in Casiguran town Sunday night. They came to honor the two fallen New People’s Army (NPA) fighters Andres Hubilla and Miguel Himor in a unique tribute....
SORSOGON-- Activists and human rights workers say the killing of two New People’s Army (NPA) members and two civilians last July 28 in Casiguran town was a “massacre” and not an “encounter” as the raiding government forces claimed. At a rally in this town...
YOUTH AND teachers’ organizations welcomed the passage of ‘Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act’ today. The legislation, which Pres. Rodrigo Duterte signed last night amid objections from his economic managers, offers full tuition subsidy to state...
STUDENTS from the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman expressed their indignation over the cancellation of the free tuition policy in state universities and colleges (SUCs). In front of UP Diliman’s College of Arts and Letters building, students gathered...
As soon as the clock strikes five in the morning, 13-year-old Dimlestyr Dumanglay, a grade six student of the Tribal Filipino Program of Surigao del Sur (TRIFPSS), sets off to the field to plant crops. He has cultivated these crops for several weeks, and looks forward...
A fisher folk leader was shot dead on Monday in front of his two children by six unidentified men in Brgy. Bulado, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, according to a report by human rights group Karapatan-Negros. The 45-year old fisherman, identified as Alberto “Leboy”...