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BULATLAT FILE PHOTO: The Manilakbayan trooping to the national headquarters of various large-scale miners in Mindanao. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat) “The killings of Pangadas, Vinas and Suganob bring to light the continuous attack and atrocities being committed by state forces against indigenous and peasant communities.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – A Lumad…

(Photo by J. Ellao / Bulatlat) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – A group of farm workers held a protest action today, March 21, in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform in Quezon City to decry the continuing expansion of plantations in the country instead of providing much-needed subsidies for farm inputs….

File photo. “What we have seen so far is that the government is not serious in improving the agricultural industry in the country.” By ALYSSA MAE CLARIN Bulatlat.com MANILA – The irony is not lost to agricultural workers that comprise at least 75 percent of the country total labor force. This was the prevailing sentiment…

Two of the men who allegedly tailed the delegation of international lawyers while they were in Manila on March 18. (Photo courtesy of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers) MANILA — Delegates of an international mission that investigated the attacks on Filipino lawyers and the legal profession experienced firsthand how it was to be tailed…

Foreign lawyers underscore the pattern of “state-sanctioned” violence against Filipino lawyers in a press conference, March 18 at the IBP Building. (Photo by Alyssa Mae Clarin / Bulatlat) “The more serious the crime, the less serious the investigation.” By ALYSSA MAE CLARIN Bulatlat.com MANILA — An international fact-finding mission composed of nine lawyers from different…