Yesterday’s Pride protest in Mendiola had 20 LGBTQIA+ rights activists and supporters arrested and detained by police operatives for supposed violations of the Public Assembly Law (BP 880) and Article 151 of the Revised Penal Code on “Resistance and Disobedience to a Person in Authority or the Agents of such Person” in relation to RA…
Representatives of Bulatlat, Kodao, Pinoy Weekly and Altermidya file complaints before the Commission on Human Rights, July 30. (Photo by Adrian Puse) By EMILY VITAL MANILA – Alternative media outfits filed before the Commission on Human Rights complaints against government officials and state security agents for violating their “fundamental right to press freedom and expression,…
Cecille Suerte Felipe – The Philippine Star, June 11, 2024 MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang’s directive to integrate the singing and recitation of the “Bagong Pilipinas” hymn and pledge into the weekly flag ceremonies of national government agencies and instrumentalities needs a law, according to Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III. “I suggest that the executive…
By Anri Ichimura, Esquire Philippines Now that the vaccine is here, we can talk about herd immunity. This time last year when COVID-19 was still a relatively new word flashing in every headline, herd immunity was being brought up as a possible alternative to lockdowns. The idea shot down quickly. As epidemiologists have discussed before,…
“Ang pinakamalupit na paglabag sa karapatan sa ngayon, hindi ka na kinakasuhan, hindi ka na binibigyan ng pagkakataon na magpaliwanag o magbago, ikaw ay pinapatay na.”–Teddy Casiño, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
“Secretary Lopez is acting like Pontious Pilate, refusing government’s responsibility in ensuring safe mass transportation to hundreds of thousands of workers going to work under MECQ. Naghuhugas-kamay siya sa pananagutan ng gobyerno sa mga manggagawa.” The post ‘Secretary Lopez is acting like Pontious Pilate’ appeared first on Kodao Productions.