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PROTEST. Lumad students and parents protest against militarization in schools in remote villages in Mindanao. Gathering in front of Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Sr. Central Elementary School in Davao City on January 10, 2017, they were expecting to meet Education Secretary Leonor Briones. The Secretary was supposed to visit the school on the same day. (Robby…
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…
“There is no provision in the Constitution or in the law that prohibits anybody, specifically the Philippine National Police or Armed Forces of the Philippines as a law enforcement agency, to gather intelligence information.”–Philippine National Police Director General Oscar Albayalde–10 January 2019
“We have confirmed that a few days before his death, he had filed a report with the Kidapawan police after he received a challenge to a ‘due’ and his station’s hotline received a text message from mobile number 09353435064 that said:’ Bantay mo Brigada mamatay unya mo bantay2 mo kay naa mupusil ninyo,’ the NUJP…
On this day, June 30, 2016 Rodrigo Roa Duterte swore to serve the Filipino people at all costs. But four years into his presidency, the Filipino people have not seen a more bloody administration than his. The Legend of Duterte Chapter 1: State-Fascism With over 30,000 killings under the War on Drugs; the Philippines being…
(IBON Facts & Figures excerpt) The demand of progressive workers’ federations for the re-installation of a national minimum wage and pegged at Php750, along with the abolition of the regional wage boards, is an immediate, important and doable step towards making economic growth genuinely inclusive and addressing worsening inequality in the country. Based on IBON…