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By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Various progressive groups are calling for the boycott of Pepmaco products, following the violent dispersal of their striking workers early today, June 28. “No amount of chemicals or goons can ever curtail the striking workers’ fight for their rights,” said state workers union Courage in a statement….

Injured striking workers (Photo by PWU) “They drove us out with force. They even used water canons.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Images of bloodied striking workers of the Peerless Producers Manufacturing Corp. (Pepmaco) in Calamba, Laguna greeted netizens on Friday morning, following a violent attack against them by armed goons in…

By JOHN AARON MARK MACARAEG Bulatlat.com MANILA — Progressive groups strongly condemned the killing of another activist and the unlawful arrests of ten others in Negros island. Lito Itao, 49, was outside a store with his neighbors in sitio Culasi, barangay Buenavista, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on the afternoon of Thursday, June 27 when armed men…

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Slain lawyer Ben Ramos and daughter Gabrielle’s last selfie together (Photo courtesy of author) By GABRIELLE THEA I. RAMOS Bulatlat.com November 6, 2018. Fourth year, first sem. It was a school day when it happened. After receiving the news, I went completely blank. I immediately went home, only to see my father’s lifeless body with…

NUPL lawyer Katherine Panguban during the indignation rally against the killing of Atty. Benjamin Ramos. The military filed kidnapping charges against Panguban. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat) By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Sagay City prosecutor dismissed for lack of probable cause the kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges filed against Katherine Panguban, lawyer of one of the witnesses in…