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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,…

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By JUSTIN UMALI Bulatlat.com SANTA ROSA, Laguna – Labor federation Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (Pamantik-KMU) denounced assertions by the police and military that they were “front organizations of the CPP-NPA” after a July 23 surrender ceremony where they claimed that most of the participants came from “the labor sector in various parts of…

Kadamay calls for the release of four of their members who were arrested July 27 after holding an online protest. (Contributed photo) Kadamay stated that the four were forced to sign a form “voluntarily waiving their rights under Article 125 of the Revised Penal Code,” as well as having a “gag order” placed on them,…

Marcelo Vidal, July Julongbayan, and Doroteo Bautista released after charges against them were dropped, July 8. (Photo courtesy of Free Calaca 6.) By JUSTIN UMALI Bulatlat.com SANTA ROSA, Laguna – Over two months since their arrest, charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives have been dropped against the six farmers from Calaca, Batangas. The…

62 members of youth, fisherfolk, and peasant organizations in Cavite released after being detained for over three hours. (Photo courtesy of Bayan Cavite) By JUSTIN UMALI Bulatlat.com SANTA ROSA, Laguna – Almost 150 protesters from various organizations and sectors nationwide were accosted by elements of the Philippine National Police on their way, during, or after…

Many netizens said that they only wasted almost two hours of their time listening to Duterte’s speech which they described as nothing but an attack on his critics and defense of China. By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Netizens aired their dismay at President Duterte’s fifth State of the Nation Address as it…

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