The National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) condemns the attack on a group of protesting farmers which killed at least nine sugar workers on Saturday evening in Negros Occidental.
By: Cristina Eloisa Baclig – Content Researcher Writer /INQUIRER.net / September 29, 2021 MANILA, Philippines—A 73 percent cut in funding for COVID response. An 11 billion-peso increase in the budget for a counterinsurgency task force created by President Rodrigo Duterte. A close look at the numbers in the 5-trillion peso proposed national budget in 2022…
Naglunsad ng press conference ang No Revisions, No Erasures: Educators Against the Rehabilitation of the Marcoses upang kundenahin ang ginanap ika-43 anibersaryo ng Kabataang Barangay sa UP Bahay ng Alumni noong Agosto 25, 2018 kung saan panauhing pandangal si Rep. Imee Marcos. Sinagot din ng alyansa ang mga pahayag ni UP President Danilo Concepcion sa…
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.
MANILA – Youth groups’ protest action faced police violence after trooping to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) last May 30 to decry the “worsening state of education” in the country. Three members of the group present in the activity were grabbed by officers after defacing the gates of the commission but were released after…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / January 22, 2021 Why did Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana suddenly and unilaterally terminate the 31-year agreement between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense that bars police and military forces from entering the state university without first notifying its officials? The accord, signed in 1989 between…
The human rights group Karapatan welcomed the Supreme Court’s issuance of writ of amparo and habeas data in favor of rights groups, which have been accused as “communist fronts” by the military.