The 2019 budget: war, infrastructure over social services, agriculture

Thirty-four years ago, when Martial Law was declared, state troops raided the ABS-CBN compound to close down the network. It was the last time ABS-CBN went off-air before tonight at 8pm, May 5. Ferdinand Marcos, Sr.’s dictatorial regime then used its wide reach to relay government propaganda. Two days after World Press Freedom Day was…

Farmers, land reform advocates, and peasant groups trooped to the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Quezon City for a lightning protest on the 32nd year of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law. “After 32 years of CARP, 7 out of 10 farmers remain landless. Many have joined our ranks of agriworkers and farmworkers who continue to…

If the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the order of the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to exclude Filipino and Philippine literature courses in college proves anything, it is only the severe consequences of K to 12 to our national identity and to the future of our country. Since its inception, ACT Philippines has consistently…

Sa 2,703 na nagkasakit ng COVID-19 na frontline health workers, 79 ang naitala ng DOH na malala o kritikal ang pagkakasakit at 32 ang pumanaw—sila ang kwalipikadong makatangap ng kumpensasyon alinsunod sa Bayanihan to Heal As One Act (Bayanihan Act). Sumulat ang ilang senador noong Hunyo 3 sa Kalihim ng DOH na si Francisco Duque…