By JAZHEEL C. SARINO Indigenous peoples (IPs) in Mindanao continue to suffer inequality, discrimination, and violence despite making up a significant portion of the region's population. This was pointed out by lawyer Raymond Marvic Baguilat, senior lecturer and lead legal officer of the...
More consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) were released on bail today, in time for the resumption of formal peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) and the NDFP. Alan Jazmines, Tirso "Ka...
Nanay Lani, a sugar worker, earns only P43 for 15 days during Tiempo Muerto (dead season), made worse by the effects of El Niño. Photo by Nadja de Vera. BACOLOD CITY – Nanay Lani holds up her pay slip, a small piece of paper more akin to a list of dues that the...
The Comval North Davao South Agusan Subregional Command of the New People's Army (NPA) today said that the Philippine Army's 72nd Infantry Battalion and Alamara paramilitary troops were engaged in combat operations before the NPA ambush...
Pres. Rodrigo Duterte seems to move towards his promise of reviving the steel industry by appointing steel industry pioneer Ramon Jacinto--more commonly known as a musician--as his economic adviser. As Jacinto shared in a Facebook status: “We agreed that reviving and...
Report by Danielle Isaac and Wowie Tubije Three days after Hacienda Ilimnan sugar farmers decided to cultivate food crops to address their hunger, police and military under orders from the Negros Occidental Provincial Government forcibly evicted them from their...
Halos araw-araw na sa balita ang pagsuko, pag-aresto, at pagpatay sa mga hinihinalang sangkot sa ilegal na droga. Nagaganap ang lahat ng ito sa gitna ng “war on drugs” ni Pang. Rodrigo Duterte. Silipin natin ang tinatakbo ng kampanya laban sa ilegal na droga, na ayon...
It was dawn of February 21, 2014 when three battalions of the combined forces of the police, air force and special weapons and tactics team entered the quiet community of Patungan. They were in search of community leaders who were struggling for their right to land...
Disgruntled workers in Region 4 went on strike yesterday, paralyzing production in two separate factories in Batangas and Laguna. Workers from the Soro-Soro Ibaba Development Cooperative (SIDC) and Renaissance Foods Corporation (RFC) lament the very low pay and the...
DAR Secretary Rafael Mariano vows to continue the struggle for genuine agrarian reform. (Photo by AlterMidya) "Open the gates of DAR for our farmers." That was the statement of Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Rafael “Ka Paeng" Mariano upon...
‘Take a different stand from Yasay’ YOUTH GROUPS marched to the United States (US) Embassy today to mark the 70th Filipino-American Friendship Day and protest the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and other military agreements with the US....
[soliloquy id="0"] ON JUNE 30, members of various people’s organizations marched to Mendiola to show their support for the progressive reforms that newly-inaugurated President Duterte promised. The marchers said they were optimistic that the new administration will...
A paramilitary group associated with the 8th Infantry Batallion of the Philippine Army went on a shooting rampage during a wedding celebration in in Sitio Tibugawan, Brgy. Kawayan, San Fernando, Bukidnon, killing a pregnant woman and wounding five children. According...