Bayan Muna members protesting oil price hikes (Bulatlat photo) “The latest round of price hikes will definitely hurt consumers including low to middle-income earners and especially poor sectors like farmers, fisherfolk and urban poor.” By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Picket protests in different places across the Philippines greeted today’s hike in oil prices. On…
Progressive groups held a Black Friday Protest at along EDSA, Quezon City last June 29, 2018 on the eve of the second anniversary of President Rodrigo Duterte ascension to office. Aside from narrating Duterte’s failed promises, the protesters complained of the many human rights violations committed under his administration.
Forty-nine years ago, thousands of brave Filipino youth fought the dictatorial regime of the late Ferdinand Marcos with a series of mass demonstrations.
Nov 2, 2020, Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany The virus has infected more than 46 million people worldwide, with close to 1.2 million deaths, and the acute outbreaks in Europe and America spark further alarm about the state of the already devastated global economy Germany on Monday, November 2, led a further tightening of coronavirus restrictions…
If before depression mostly affects senior citizens, now the Philippine Mental Health Associate (PMHA) said it has moved back dozens of steps starting as early as 9 years old.
September 4, 2018 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the sentencing of our Myanmar colleagues Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo of the Reuters news agency to seven years in jail under that country’s Official Secrets Act. Myanmar has effectively outlawed freedom of the press and belied all its claims of democratization….