CREATE bill not a stimulus-IBON (Philippine Star)

One Billion Rising (Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat.com) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Now on its seventh year, Filipino women’s rights advocates once again took the streets of Manila to dance and protest the misogyny and rising tyranny in the country. “We gather today, not just to dance as part of…

Messages of solidarity came from Hongkong, Brussels, Vancouver, and Chicago. By JOMARI ALEJANDRO HERRERA III bulatlat.com MANILA — Labor and rights groups around the globe called for the immediate release of Filipino trade union organizer and Kilusang Mayo Uno staff Maolen Maojo B. Maga this February, a year after his questionable arrest. Messages of solidarity…