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Stale
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Why ending ‘endo’ remains as Duterte’s unmet campaign promise
Bulatlat file photo The Congress-approved Senate version does not prohibit fixed-term and multi-layered contracting as demanded by workers. Its provision on penalties and fines on employers and agencies engaged in illegal labor-only contracting is weak. By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — Various labor organizations, except the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), have expressed…
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Move on? Move forward instead for clean elections, watchdogs say
IT expert Lito Averia discusses the many ways automated election results could be compromised. On top of coercive activities of the police and military forcing the people not to vote for the opposition and the progressives, on top of humongous campaign ads of administration bets, the automated election system itself can and may have been…
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Marawi
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Balangiga
Matatandaang si Neri Colmenares, kasama ni Teddy Casiño, kapwa kinatawan ng BAYAN MUNA Party-list, ang nagpasa ng House Resolution No. 236, noong 2010 para manawagan sa pagbabalik ng tatlong kampana ng Balangiga. * * * “You cannot frighten us with your bombs and deaths; You cannot put us all in your padded jails; You cannot…
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SC issues protection order for rights defenders
Officers of Karapatan, Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Gabriela file a petition for writ of amparo and writ of habeas data before the Supreme Court, May 6. (Photo courtesy of Karapatan) “We reiterate that activism and the full exercise of our civil and political rights is not a crime. While we continue with our…
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Rehimeng Duterte: Ikalawang kabanata
Dominado ng mga pambato ng administrasyon ang 2019 midterm elections, lalo na sa Senado. Dahil dito, siguradong raratsadahin ng administrasyong Duterte ang prayoridad nitong mga polisiyang neoliberal sa oras na magbukas ang ika-18 Kongreso. Matatandaang ginamit na nito ang pagiging “super-majority” (o labis na mayorya) sa ika-17 Kongreso para magpasa ng mga hakbang na nagpapalala…
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Tato on My Mind
Nitong Marso 10 ang ika-100 kaarawan ni Renato Constantino — progresibo at makabayang historyador at kritikong panlipunan, at awtor ng maraming mahalagang sanaysay at libro. Bilang paggunita, maraming aktibista ang nag-post, kalakhan sa Facebook, tungkol sa kanyang mga sulatin at sa papel ng mga ito sa kanilang pagkamulat at paninindigan. Kapag sinabing kaisipang makabayan at…
