MANILA – Public school teachers’ group stormed Department of Education (DepEd) head office in Pasig City on Tuesday, June 9. The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) criticized DepEd for not addressing the widening gap in the education in the new mode of learning delivery in this academic year 2020-2021. The DepEd maintains that it will…
COURAGE national president Santiago Dasmariñas Jr. said as many as 600,000 government employees all over the country, especially job-order and contractual employees, are worried. The post Government employees oppose ‘mass layoff circular’ amid pandemic appeared first on Kodao Productions.
Now that Duterte is railroading the draconian Anti-terror bill, human rights defenders, activists, and dissenters should be more digitally safe and secured. By REIN TARINAY Bulatlat.com MANILA — Following the recent incident of the massive creation of fake, duplicated Facebook accounts, a digital security expert warned that more information put out in public, the more…
“One injustice over another.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Human rights lawyers denounced what they described as special privileges accorded to retired Major Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. inside prison. In 2018, Palparan was declared guilty of kidnapping University of the Philippines students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan. He is the highest military…
Twenty lawmakers reportedly withdrew their “yes” votes on the Anti-Terrorism Bill. This is a big and unprecedented number. There is a visible and growing clamor to junk the Anti-Terrorism Bill, and yet the rubber stamp Congress has now sneakily transmitted the bill to Malacañang yesterday, June 9, serving it on a bloody silver platter, just…
Artwork by Andrei Venal As the world grapples with the continuously unfolding crises in public health, economy, and food security, fishing communities face exacerbated hunger, job insecurity, and uncertainty of survival. By JC MERCADO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Most fishing communities depend on a slew of traditional and modern forecasts to see a storm coming. At…
I cannot find the appropriate words to describe how our government is handling the crisis. It is a health issue to begin with. However, the response of the government, noted by its militaristic fashion, appears to be tangential and seemingly unresponsive to the situation.
I thought I was okay until the unlawful arrest of student protesters in Cebu brought back the pain and trauma that was just lying low while on lockdown. Suddenly, I was racked with a deep cry that struggled to surface out as I tried to calm my shaken nerves.