Para malaman ang kalagayan ng “pamamahagi ng lupa” sa pamamagitan ng tambiyolo, pangangamkam ng lupa at militarisasyon sa Hacienda Luisita, nagtungo ang fact-finding team sa asyenda para mag-imbestiga. Hindi nila inakala na sila man ang haharap sa mismong panunupil na kanilang iniimbestigahan. Noong Setyembre 17, pangalawang araw ng fact-finding mission nang harangin ng mga miyembro […]
Nagkaisa ang mga mambabatas kapwa sa blokeng minorya at mayorya sa Kamara para harangin ang pagkaltas ng badyet sa 79 sa 110 state universities and colleges (SUCs) sa 2014 panukalang badyet. Nanawagan din sila ng mas mataas na pondo para sa SUCs. Sa isang press conference, pinangunahan ni Kabataan Rep. Terry Ridon ang pagkakaisa ng […]
Ang maliit na ngang badyet na inilalaan ng administrasyong Aquino sa pabahay, inilalaan pa sa marahas na pagdemolis sa mga maralita. Samantala, di abot-kamay ang negosyong pabahay ng gobyerno, at walang trabahong sapat na inilalaan
Sinabi ng lokal na lider ng Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) sa Davao City na plano lamang ng mga kasamahan nila sa Zamboanga City na magsagawa ng rali noong nakaraang linggo, hindi para umatake tulad ng naiuulat, nang makasagupa nila sa palitan ng putok ang mga tropa ng gobyerno. Sinabi ni Rolando Olamit, tagapangulo ng […]
Residents of coastal towns in Cagayan province trooped to Malacanang and the House of Representative to call for the immediate halt to magnetite mining (also known as black sand) operations there. The Federation of Environmental Advocates of Cagayan (FEAC) and Kalikasan-People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE), among others, demanded Pres. Benigno Aquino III to […]
More than 60,000 civilians have been displaced in Zamboanga City from the intense attacks of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) troops reportedly under MNLF founding chairman Nur Misuari. This despite military reports that about 70 percent of areas in Zamboanga City, as of this writing, have been cleared […]
A mining company in Nueva Vizcaya withdrew cases they filed against indigenous people and is set to cease operations in Nueva Vizcaya. In a motion to withdraw complaint filed in Regional Trial Court Branch 37, in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, the Royalco Philippines Inc. manifested that they are withdrawing their complaints against 10 anti-mining leaders, including […]
Mas maliit man kaysa sa naunang pagtitipon noong Agosto 26, malakas pa ring inirehistro ng humigit-kumulang 15,000 katao sa Luneta ang paglaban sa pork barrel. Hindi ipinagbawal, bagkus ay hinimok pa, ng mga organisador ng #ForwardMarch ang pagdadala ng mga plakard, banners, streamers, watawat, effigy at kung anu-ano pang porma ng biswal na protesta. May mataimtim […]
The human rights group Karapatan protested the arrest and detention of a 24-year-old Canadian student and activist as she passed through immigration last night, September 13, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport for her 7:10 PM flight to Hong Kong. As of this writing, the Canadian student, Kim Chatillon-Meunier, is being detained at the BI […]
Lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc rejected the move by the House Committee on Appropriations to re-align the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) into line budget items under the executive branch, while still retaining many of the key features of the pork barrel system. ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio was the sole dissenting vote when the […]
