(Photo by Kathy Yamzon) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Workers and activists marched in the streets of Manila today, Nov. 30, as they commemorate the 155th birth anniversary of Filipino revolutionary Andres Bonifacio, with a fiery battlecry to put a stop to the creeping autocratic rule in the country. In a statement,…
(Photo courtesy of Cristina Palabay) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Human rights activists held a protest action in front of Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City to call for an end to the continuing attacks against women human rights defenders as they commemorate the International Women Human Rights Defenders Day today, Nov. 29….
Forty days after the Sagay Massacre, groups light candles at Plaza Miranda. (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat) “The deployment of more state security forces in the province and in the whole Negros Island would not lead to the so-called peace and order. They are there primarily to protect the interests of big landlords…
“Umalis kayo diyan. Sabihin ko diyan sa mga Lumad ngayon, umalis kayo diyan. Bobombahan ko ‘yan. Isali ko ‘yang mga istruktura ninyo.” These were the exact words of President Duterte on July 24, 2017. Since then, there has been no let up in the attacks against the Lumad, most especially school children and their alternative…
Photo by the Manila Collegian Tanggol Wika and the Manila Science High School filed motions for reconsideration on the SC decision to lift the TRO on the removal of Filipino as part of core subjects. By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Nationalists will not give up the fight to retain Filipino and literature…
Nov. 28, Save Our Schools Network (SOS Network) reported that paramilitary group Alamara padlocked the Dulyan Campus of Salugpongan Ta’Tanu Igkanogon Community Learning Center Inc. (STTICLC) in sitio Dulyan, Palma Gil village, Talaingod Davao Del Norte. (Photo courtesy of Save our Schools Network-Southern Mindanao Region) Members of the 56th IBPA blocked the entry of school…
MANILA — Hundreds of women from different organizations gathered on Sunday morning, Nov. 25 to formally launch One Billion Rising (OBR) 2019 at Luneta Park in Manila. The event’s theme: Babae ako, Lumalaban sa Abuso. Present at the launch was former Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares who expressed continuing solidarity in eliminating violence against women….
Last Tuesday night, human rights lawyer Benjamin Ramos, who assisted the families of the nine farm workers massacred in a Sagay City hacienda on Oct. 20, was gunned down by a tandem of motorcycle-riding men near his home in Kabangkalan City. He was a founding member of the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) and…