By Karlo Mongaya/Global Voices A group of Filipino professors, scholars, and students in the Philippines is leading a campaign against government steps to remove the mandatory teaching of Filipino language and Panitikan (literature) at the college level. Along with English, Filipino is one of the two official languages in the Philippines, where over 185 are spoken. It is the country’s…
Over the last four years of Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s presidency, we may have gotten used to seeing, hearing, or reading about how he has tended to say one thing and, in the same instance, he walks back on that statement and states the opposite. This happened again last Tuesday during his weekly late-night televised address…
Lumad groups and environmental advocates expressed opposition to the looming plunder of mining and logging interests in the mineral-rich Pantaron Range in Mindanao, as well as the attacks against environmental defenders, as they staged a protest action in Davao City during the Earth Day commemoration on Monday, April 22.
As the number of the infected swells and threatens to overwhelm the healthcare system, the country’s medical frontliners have wisely called for the reassessment and reform of what passes for the Duterte regime’s anti-COVID-19 strategy. But they did not include in their proposals the need to address the possibility that we may also be in…
BY CARLO MANALANSAN Bulatlat.com MANILA — Multisectoral groups hEld a protest action today at the Bantayog ng Mga Bayani as part of a nationwide action honoring the “national and new” heroes in this year’s National Heroes Day, August 31. They honored those who sacrificed their lives for the country’s democracy. They paid tribute to medical…
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter / INQUIRER.net / October 08, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo is no longer concerned that she and Manila Mayor Isko Moreno would split the opposition vote in the 2022 presidential race, saying her group has always been the “real opposition” even from the start. Robredo was…