“By completing the challenge, my team was able to raise funds which we used to buy goods to help frontliners, laborers and employees who were placed under no-work no-pay scheme. We were able to send 3,500 pieces of surgical masks, 100 pieces of face shield, 100 pieces of KN95 masks, 15 pieces of thermal scanner,…
Human rights group Karapatan called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to launch an independent investigation on the killing of Kadamay secretary general Carlito Badion, as the group decried the death of the urban poor leader as “a gruesome murder.” read more
Paano kung malapit ka nang manganak pero stranded ka pa rin sa quarantine facility? Isang buwan nang naghihintay ang mga buntis na OFW para sa resulta ng kanilang #COVID19 tests at quarantine certificate. Pakinggan ang kanilang hinaing. The post Buntis na OFWs, stranded sa quarantine facilities ng OWWA appeared first on AlterMidya.
Photo by Ronalyn Olea/Bulatlat “The legislation can be used to violate people rights in the same way the Bayanihan Act was used for mass arrests of ECQ [enhanced community quarantine] violators. Only the anti-terror law is 100x worse.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Progressive organizations slammed the hasty approval of Anti-Terrorism Bill…
Labis labis na ang pahirap. Kasuklam suklam na ang paraan ng pagharap ng administrasyong Duterte sa kasalukuyang krisis ng pandemiya sa Pilipinas. Mahigit dalawang buwan na ang nakalilipas pero wala paring maramdamang anino ng tunay na pagkalinga ang pamahalaang ito sa gipit na kalagayan ng maraming mamamayan, kabilang na ang mga manggagawang Pilipino sa ibayong…
The Office of the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) recently released in social media posts (especially in Facebook) the names of organizations linking pro-people organizations to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP); fomenting threats and condemnations from among the online followers of the military and the Duterte government….
https://revlisad.com/2019/05/03/what-i-need-john-20/ By PATIS MUNGCAL National Council of Churches in the Philippines Psalm 104:1,24, 29-31, 34 Acts 2:1-11 1 Cor. 12:3-7, 12-13 John 20:19-23 Our reading from Acts greeted us with this line. Being in the nth day in lockdown because of the COVID-19, this line made me ache for a sense of togetherness. Although we…
It was April 26 when more than a hundred repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) awoke to the news that a fellow balikbayan had hung herself in a stairwell in Room 43. They had been housed under the same lodgings for almost a month—twice the mandatory 14-day period—when the tragedy happened. Liza Lodge, a drive-in located…