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 […]
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 Haiyan (Yolanda) struck, much of Leyte and Samar still lie in ruins. People are homeless, hungry, and without livelihood. Last January 25, around 12,000 storm survivors descended from remote villages and coastal towns to stage a protest march around Tacloban City, united in anger at the Aquino government’s negligence and […]
Binigyan na lamang ng lokal na gobyerno ng Quezon City ang mga maralitang residente ng Sitio San Roque ng hanggang Pebrero 5 para lisanin ang center island ng Agham Road kung saan pansamantalang naninirahan ang may 300 pamilya matapos ang marahas na demolisyon noong Enero 27. Ayon sa mga ulat, puwersahang paalisin muli ang mga […]
Sinalubong ng protesta ng kabataan ang pagpasok ng Chinese New Year para itaboy ang anila’y nagbibigay malas at pahirap sa mga mamamayang Pilipino sa paanan ng Mendiola. Ayon sa kabataan, hindi na nila matatagalan pa ang tatlong taong pamumuno ni Aquino. Dahil daw ito sa kahirapang kinakaharap ngayon ng mga mamamayan dulot ng sunud-sunod pagtaas […]
