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…
Human rights group Karapatan demand an end to the spate of killings in the country believed to be perpetrated by state forces and agents.
A National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant was arrested by combined police, military and intelligence agents Wednesday night two days after President Rodrigo Duterte dissolved his government’s negotiating panel with the Left. Renante Gamara, NDFP peace consultant for the National Capital Region, was arrested by the Regional Special Operations Unit of the…
(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…
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the harassment being perpetrated by Gumaca Quezon Mayor Erwin Caralian and his brother, Vice Mayor El Chor Caralian against Radyo Natin Gumaca. Radyo Natin Operations Manager Mitch Hernando complains that despite having complied with all the necessary papers, the station is being denied renewal of the…
President Rodrigo Duterte dissolved the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) Negotiating Panel with the Left led by Department of Labor and Employment secretary Silvestre H. Bello III. Along with Bello, panel members Hernani Braganza, Atty. Angela Librado-Trinidad, Atty. Rene Sarmiento and Atty. Antonio Arellano were terminated as of Monday, March 18. In…
The cancellation of the appointment of the GRP Negotiating Panel headed by DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III has been anticipated by the NDFP because of the following: First, Duterte had terminated the peace negotiations since November 23, 2017 with his Proclamation 360.