Live streaming video by Ustream Live Streaming schedules: 10:30 AM : Mendiola, Manila 3 to 8 PM : Quezon City Memorial Circle to UP Diliman, Quezon City (Philippines Time: GMT+8) This year’s One Billion Rising — the global campaign to rid the world of all forms of violence against women — is dubbed as “an […]
A combined force of the police, military, and security guards of a company owned by President Aquino’s kin yesterday set fire to huts and bulldozed crops of three farmers occupying land supposedly covered by land reform. According to reports by Ambala (Alyansa ng Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita), the huts of farmers Ricky Flores, Rudy […]
The payment of P471 million to President Aquino’s family by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is tantamount to “brazen” fraud and plunder, the peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today said. The KMP demands that the money be returned to the government and that the Cojuangcos pay the “billion-peso debt they owe to […]
Almost three months after typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) hit the country, thousands of survivors “surged” through the streets of Tacloban City in the biggest protest that Eastern Visayas has seen in decades. Hailing from remote barrios to coastal villages, an estimated 12,000 people marched around the devastated city last January 25 to seek justice […]
Muling ipinagtanggol ng mga maralitang residente ng Bgy. San Roque, North Triangle, Quezon City ang kanilang mga bahay at karapatan. Tinapatan sila ng "sobrang puwersa" ng mga pulis--gamit ang mga shield, pamalo, baril at tear gas. Marami ang sugatan at huli
Farmers from the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today filed a plunder case before the Office of the Ombudsman against Pres. Benigno Aquino III, Budget Sec. Florencio Abad, Agrarian Sec. Virgilio Delos Reyes, Janet Lim-Napoles, and nine others over the misuse of P125 Million of the Malampaya Fund. In a 16-page complaint with 70 documentary […]
Farmers from the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) called on Dept. of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Sec. Rogelio Singson to quit his post in the wake of allegations of overpriced bunkhouses in Typhoon Yolanda-affected areas, saying that only his resignation now can “pave the way for an independent investigation.” Singson promised to resign if […]
Nitong nakaraang taon, tila mas sumikat ang katawagang “yellow media” bilang bansag sa media organizations na kadalasang paborable kay Pangulong Aquino at sa kanyang administrasyon ang coverage. Ayon sa mga kritiko nito, lalong nalantad ang kanilang bias pabor sa administrasyon matapos salantahin ang bansa ng bagyong Yolanda—international media pa ang pinakamaingay na naglantad sa anila’y pagpapabaya ng […]
Niyanig tayo ng samu’t saring pangyayari nitong nakaraang taon. May natural na mga kalamidad, pero mas marami ang gawa ng tao. O, mas tumpak, gawa ng mga namumuno. At ang mga mamamayan, ang iba’t ibang grupo at indibidwal, institusyon at personahe, rumesponde sa hamon. Noong 2013, masasabi nating sa kabila ng mga pagyanig, sa kabila ng ilang […]
Celebrating its 45th year founding anniversary, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) called for the ouster of Pres. Benigno Aquino III. In a statement posted in their website, the CPP gave marching orders to its members to exert all efforts to “cause the ouster” of Aquino or “compel him to resign.” The revolutionary group […]
