Nagpakilala sila, mga sundalo, bilang mga alagad ng gobyerno: mga katuwang umano ng Department of Agriculture sa pagkuha ng sensus sa Brgy. Sinungtan, Guinobatan, Albay. Gusto raw nilang malaman kung sino ang pinakamahihirap na pamilya sa lugar. Pero ang sine-sensus pala nila, ayon sa sinumpaang salaysay ng mga sibilyang residente sa lugar, ay kung sino […]
Tinatayang umabot sa 15,000 katao, karamiha’y kababaihan, ang nagmartsa mula Liwasang Bonifacio patungong Mendiola, sa paanan ng Malakanyang noong Marso 8, pandaigdigang araw ng kababaihan. Protesta ang porma ng kanilang pagdiriwang — protesta sa anila’y panggagahasa ng kutsabahang Aquino at Obama (administrasyong Aquino sa Pilipinas, at administrasyong Obama sa US) sa inang bayan ng Pilipinas. […]
If figures are the be believed, Violence Against Women is on the rise, three years since President Aquino came to power.
Sa bisperas ng Marso 8, Pandaigdigang Araw ng Kababaihan, dinahas ng pulisya ang kababaihang pinoprotesta ang umano’y pagkakanulo ni Pangulong Aquino sa mga mamamayan nito, sa usapin ng Sabah at sa pagsadsad ng USS Guardian sa Tubbataha Reef. Mapayapa nang nagdidispers ang nagprotestang kababaihan nang damputin at arestuhin ng mga miyembro ng Manila Police District ang […]
Militant women of Gabriela surprised police when they conducted a lightning rally near Gate 7 of Malacañang Palace this morning to protest the Aquino administration’s mishandling of Sabah as well as the “rape of the motherland.” A scuffle ensued after members of Manila Police District shoved the protesting women away from Malacañang’s Gate 7. According […]
Two days before International Women’s Day, human rights group Karapatan denounced the killing of Cristina Jose, a survivor of Typhoon Pablo and leader of a recent protest action in Davao City, which confiscated relief goods being withheld by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Carrying photos of women and children victims, members of […]
One of the community leaders who participated in the barricade and protest against government inaction amid intensifying hunger among typhoon victims in Davao City was shot dead today, March 4, 2013. According to the human rights group Karapatan in Southern Mindanao, Cristina Morales Jose was shot dead by an unidentified motorcycle-riding assassin at around 6 […]
Iginiit ng mga kaanak nina Randy Vegas at Raul Camposano, kasama ang mga miyembro ng iba’t ibang sektoral na grupo, ang paglaya ng dalawa, na dinukot sa Maynila noong Disyembre 3, 2012 at inakusahang rebelde. Tinaguriang “Courage 2,” organisador sina Vegas at Camposano ng mga kawani ng gobyerno, partikular ng mga manggagawa ng Metropolitan Manila […]
Various militant groups called on the resignation of Sec. Corazon “Dinky” Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) amid the non-delivery of promised relief goods to starving victims of typhoon Pablo in Southern Mindanao. Leaders of Gabriela, Anakbayan, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), Koalisyon ng Progresibong Manggagawa at Mamamayan, Balsa Mindanao and Kalipunan […]
Migrante Party-list believes the Malaysian government could use the crisis in Lahad Datu to crack down on undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and so-called “stateless Filipinos” in Sabah. “(Sabah) is one of the most common ‘transit points’ of trafficked Filipinos on their way to other parts of Asia,” said Connie Bragas Regalado, chairperson and first […]
