Elena Tijamo, coordinator of Farmers Development Center (Fardec) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Sobs were all that 50-year-old Violeta heard from her sister Elena Tijamo, a development worker who dedicated more than half her life in serving farmers and farm workers, as she was dragged out of their house in Cebu, with…
BY RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA A paramilitary group destroyed an indigenous people’s school in Bukidnon Province last Wednesday, August 26, the Save Our Schools (SOS) Network reported. The Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Inc. (MISFI) Academy in Sitio Laburon, Brgy. Matupe, San Fernando was attacked and destroyed by around 50 members of paramilitary group ‘Bagani’, the network…
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-climate-change-global-warming-part-2-story.html By LILIAN HAZEL CORRO-NAVARRA, MIDM United Church of Christ in the Philippines Psalm 63:2-6, 8-9 Romans 12:1-2 Jeremiah 20:7-9 Matthew 16:21-27 According to the Webster dictionary, mission means “the act of sending; the duty on which one is sent”. In the UCCP Calendar, August is mission month. Today, we meditate on the words of…
“The teachers were about to take photos of the incident but were threatened by the ‘Bagani’ leader Lito Gambay, who told them to leave as President (Rodrigo) Duterte will know about this,” the SOS said. Students and community members cried out of frustration as their school was beingdestroyed, the group added. The post Paramilitary destroys…
DEPARTMENT of Interior and Local Governments (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Ano once again tested positive for COVID-19 less than two weeks ago. That development naturally led to questions on whether other members of the Cabinet, but most specially President Rodrigo Duterte, have also contracted the infection. Mr. Duterte only this week said one of his ailments…
MANILA, Philippines — The sustained surge of international condemnations and calls for justice and independent investigations on the extrajudicial killings, this month, of peasant leader and peace consultant Randall Echanis and Negros human rights and health worker Zara Alvarez has sparked anew an urgent demand: Stop the Killings! The demand recalls, and will most likely…
A group of neighbors and friends from Rizal Province were the first ones to submit signatures for the people’s initiative for an ABS-CBN franchise. The post People’s Initiative for an ABS-CBN franchise gets underway appeared first on Kodao Productions.
Signature booth set up by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) outside ABS-CBN gate. “The closure of ABS-CBN’s regional stations also deprives millions upon millions of Filipinos throughout the country of a major source of credible news and information even as the national struggles against the pandemic.” By ALYSSA MAE CLARIN Bulatlat.com…