ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro. (Photo by Efren Ricalde) By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Back story: France Castro: teacher, friend, activist MANILA– Amid red-tagging of the progressive leaders, ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro has been named as recipient of the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Professional Rights 2019. The Svensson Prize has been…
Government agencies have started its round of inspection in public areas of convergence starting Monday to make sure that those who are going back to their homes for the holidays are safe while traveling.
Castro won the award for her many years of struggle to organize teachers and for fighting for basic workers rights in the Philippines, wrote the Svensson Foundation in a press statement.
(Photo courtesy of Kadamay – Pandi) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Two urban poor activists who were forcibly disappeared on Saturday, April 13, were surfaced today in a police detention facility in Malolos, Bulacan. In a Facebook post, Kadamay’s chapter in Pandi, Bulacan said the two — Kadamay member John Griefen Arlegui,…
Urban poor group Kadamay led the “Kalbaryo ng Mamamayan” to highlight the plight of Filipinos on Friday, April 12. In this year’s kalbaryo, five stations were set up to discuss the struggles of urban poor families facing eviction threats, issues of sovereignty, land reform, tyranny and drug-related killings, and several policies deemed as anti-poor such…
The environmentalist group EcoWaste Coalition has called on the public to observe a “greener, trash-free” Holy Week.
Members of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) file a petition for writ of amparo and habeas data before the Supreme Court today, April 15. (Photo courtesy of NUPL) “The Honorable Court cannot sit idly by and allow state forces and their agents dictate how law ought to be practiced and eliminate lawyers who…
Sison said the NDFP does not want to be baited into accepting a war panel of the Duterte regime, “whose purpose is merely to seek the impossible, such as the surrender of the revolutionary forces, especially the New People’s Army.”