Nagpatay ng ilaw ang ilang bahay sa mga komunidad ng Metro Manila bilang protesta sa P4.15 kWh taas-singil sa kuryente na hinihingi ng Manila Electric Co. (Meralco). Isinagawa ang protesta isang linggo bago magtapos ang temporary restraining order ng Korte Suprema na ipinalabas noong Disyembre. “Malinaw ang mensahe namin kay Pangulong Aquino at sa Korte […]
Upping the ante in its call to action to end violence against women, this year’s One Billion Rising for Justice (OBR4J) in the Philippines called for justice for all women victims under what it calls a “disaster presidency” under Benigno Aquino III. The whole-day, country-wide affair featured flash mobs near “places of injustice” such as […]
Human rights group Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensiyon at Aresto (Selda) slammed the appointment of retired Philippine National Police (PNP) Director Lina Castillo- Sarmiento by Pres. Benigno Aquino to head the Human Rights Victims Claims Board. Selda stated that the move is an insult inflicted upon the victims by the government. “Sarmiento was […]
Para sa mga maralitang tagalungsod, mistulang demolisyon pa ang sagot ng administrasyong Aquino sa mga suliranin nila sa buhay. Maililigtas daw ang mahihirap sa tabing-ilog kapag inalis sila sa lugar. Malulutas daw ang trapik kapag nag-road widening. Maraming negosyante at dayuhan ang mahihikayat na mamuhunan sa bansa kapag ang mga gusali ay malinis. Hindi na […]
Everything seems frozen in place. Every tree, branch, every root sticking out from the ground, stretches out toward an unseen horizon as though reaching for a sun that will never come, or shine as bright as it once did. The trees are twisted out of true, like the bodies in the bags that used to […]
Kasama si Joey sa mga aktibidad ng One Billion Rising noong nakaraang taon. Kaiba siya, dahil pangunahing kababaihan ang kalahok sa kampanyang paglaban sa karahasan sa kababaihan. Sabagay, araw naman iyon ng mga puso, araw ng pagmamahalan, maiisip na marahil isinama siya ng kanyang asawa, kasintahan o di kaya nayaya ng mga barkada. Pero kapansin-pansin […]
Dahil walang ibang maaasahan na magmamana at magpapatuloy ng lipunan kundi ang kabataan, walang dahilan ang gobyerno para hindi masiguro na mabigyan ng karapatan ang mga mamamayan ng kalidad at abot-kayang edukasyon. Pero sinabi ng mga kritiko ng gobyerno sa sektor ng edukasyon, sa halip na makapasok ang kabataan sa mga pamantasan para magkaroon ng […]
Youth and students from different private and state universities and colleges stormed the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to protest impending tuition and other fee increases that will welcome students next academic year 2014-2015. Along with the protest action in front of CHED’s office in Diliman, student leaders met with CHED officials for a dialogue […]
Jersey City, New Jersey– The Filipino-American youth community urged US State Secretary John Kerry to grant undocumented Filipino workers in the US a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to prevent them from being deported at a time when their families are still recovering from the effects of typhoon Haiyan. In a letter to Kerry dated February […]
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 […]
