#1BillionRising Revolution PH escalates fight vs violence against women
Filipino women and children, with Gabriela Philippines in front, have once again led the worldwide campaign against violence vs women in all its forms.
Filipino women and children, with Gabriela Philippines in front, have once again led the worldwide campaign against violence vs women in all its forms.
Our lolos and lolas, the senior citizen pensioners of the Social Security System, are up in arms, demanding a P2,000 pension hike that the President vetoed. Photos taken by photojournalist Jo A. Santos during the gathering of pensioners and their supporters to assert #SSSPensionHikeNow
The video shows, among others, the scenes of the huge protest action by peasant organizations led by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) on January 22, 1987, from Liwasang Bonifacio to Mendiola Bridge.
Save for outright declaration of war, President Aquino tried everything to dampen protests against the APEC summit. Obviously, it did not work.
Panoorin ang limang-minutong dokumentaryo ng PinoyMedia Center hinggil sa mga mangingisdang Pilipino na hinaras at pinagbantaan ng Chinese Coast Guard sa Panatag Shoal.
The Lumad bring with them what could arguably be the most pressing issue in the country today: the militarization of indigenous and peasant lands. But they are also in the metropolis to teach the rest of us the lessons of unity and struggle.
More than a month into their evacuation from their communities in Lianga, Surigao del Sur after three of their leaders were murdered by government-sanctioned paramilitary groups, the Lumad bakwit long to return home and live in peace. Multi-awarded photojournalist Raymond Panaligan photographed their plight and struggles.
Kilalanin ang mga artista ng bayan sa likod ng makabyang mga graffiti, mural, at, siyempre, effigy. Sila ang UgatLahi Artists Collective.
Maraming beses nang nagbabakwit (evacuate) ang mga Lumad ng Sityo Han-ayan at iba pang karatig na lugar sa Diatagon, Lianga, Surigao del Sur. Pero kasinghirap pa rin ng unang pagkakataon ang kanilang dinaranas ngayon. Narito ang ilang larawan ng bagong pagbakwit ng mga Lumad ng Lianga, gayundin ang lumang larawan ng pagbabalik nila sa kanilang lugar noong 2009.
Rights activists again voice their condemnation of the recent killings in Mindanao. This time, the victims were an administrator of a Lumad school, a Lumad peasant leader and his cousin. Meanwhile, the Lumad communities began to, once again, evacuate.