Teachers’ plaint
Then Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte did promise to raise teachers’ salaries in 2015 when he was thinking of running for President. He has since promised it eight more times since he came to power, but it hasn’t happened.
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Beyond the numbers game
No one should be under the illusion that any impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo R. Duterte will by itself remove him from office. But it might help. Someone or some organization may be willing to face the firestorm of hate that the regime’s online trolls and mercenaries in print and broadcast will certainly unleash when…
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Climate crisis: Peoples act while governments falter
In the Philippines, used as we are to tropical heat such as the long dry spell of recent weeks, global warming doesn’t seem to be the huge problem that it is in other countries where wild fires and extreme temperatures kill hundreds of vulnerable people. But even as we count ourselves lucky in this regard,…
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BALINGOAN PORT
Boys cling to a rope as they climb the boat that ferries passengers from Balingoan, Misamis Oriental to Benoni, Camiguin and vice versa.
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‘Promoting food security for Filipinos at the heart of Gabriela’s legislative agenda’
It has also filed before the 18th Congress of the House of Representatives bills such as the Magna Carta for Day Care Workers, the amendments to Solo Parents Act, the repeal of Human Security Act and the value added tax on oil, and the resolution on water concession agreement. By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com…
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2 political prisoners in Samar released
Based on Karapatan’s data, there are 532 political prisoners in the country, 209 of whom were arrested under President Duterte’s administration. By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Not guilty. This was the decision of Basey Regional Trial Court Judge Tarcelo Sabarre on the case of illegal possession of firearms and explosives against Joel…
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Rights group lauds Iceland’s resolution on PH rights situation
“It is a big step in stride with other parallel measures and contemporaneous efforts that merits the full support of an intergovernmental body that is mandated to ensure the promotion, protection and respect for human rights at the global level.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Human rights group Karapatan welcomes the draft…
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Fernandez urges NPA in Negros to defend farmers from rights violations
“The revolutionary forces must bring the struggle to a higher stage as the systematic campaign against the peasants and the activists have become much worse since I was last there,” Fernandez said.
