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Less land for food
While foreign land grabbing intensifies across the globe, the concentration of Philippine agricultural lands in the hands of oligarchs amid sham land distribution is becoming even more rampant, depriving the tillers of the fruits of the land they made productive, and threatening the country’s food security.
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Brownout
By Rez Eleazar Santiag/Bulatlat A community in Manila had to bear with no electricity amid lockdown. Photo by REZ ELEAZAR SANTIAGO The post Brownout appeared first on Bulatlat.
Black Friday Protest marks 17th year of passage of EPIRA Law
In time for the 17th year of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) today, consumer group POWER, Bayan Muna Partylist and labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno-Metro Manila held a protest rally in front of the Meralco Business Center in España, Manila. Groups doubted the announced lower power rates of Meralco for the month of…
These Precolonial Filipino Words Recorded by Pigafetta Are Still Used Today
By Mario Alvaro Limos, Esquire Philippines Five hundred years ago, Antonio Pigafetta preserved snapshots of the lives and culture of the precolonial Filipinos. Pigafetta was an Italian scholar and explorer who chronicled the first circumnavigation of the world led by Ferdinand Magellan. The voyage was so significant because, finally, it proved the world was not…
