Entries by Kodao Productions

Suspected agents harass Ilocos environmentalist

By Aldwin Quitasol of Northern Dispatch for Kodao Productions BAGUIO CITY— The Ilocos Network for the Environment (Defend Ilocos) condemns and calls for a stop to the harassment and surveillance of one of its leaders by suspected state security agents. Defend Ilocos in a statement said that its regional coordinator Sherwin de Vera has been […]

OFWs worry about families in Mindanao evacuation camps

By Angel L. Tesorero, Khaleej Times DUBAI, United Arab Emirates–Two months on and fighting in Marawi City in southern Philippines between government troops and a Daesh-inspired group is still ongoing. Death toll is rising and many Filipino expats are worried about their relatives staying at various evacuation camps. Sharjah resident and former MarCom (Maranao Community) […]

NDFP says GRP eagerly wanting to end talks

National Democratic Front of the Philippines chief negotiator Fidel Agcaoili accused the Rodrigo Duterte government of wanting to end the peace negotiations after Malacañan cancelled the scheduled backchannel talks in Europe this weekend. “The GRP (Government of the Republic of the Philippines) seems so eager to terminate the peace negotiations even using the flimsiest of […]

Agrarian reform deal ready for NDFP-GRP approval

A common draft on agrarian reform is ready for approval by The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) after three days of bilateral discussions by the parties’ reciprocal working committees on socio-economic reforms over the weekend. NDFP peace consultant Allan Jazmines told a peace […]

Drivers, workers protest jeepney phaseout

Thousands of public utility jeepney drivers under the No to Jeepeney Phaseout Coalition were joined by workers of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) in a protest rally at Mendiola a week before the State of the Nation Address (SONA) of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte. Among the workers are miners and banana plantation workers from Mindanao regions. They […]

Rights violations victims ask Duterte, ‘Where is change?’

Human rights violations remain rampant during Duterte’s first year in office, people’s rights alliance Karapatan said in a press briefing last July 14 in Quezon City. Two mothers of drug war victims–Djastin Lopez, 25, and Emer Soriano, 16–Michelle Campos, daughter of slain lumad leader Dionel Campos, and Rodolofo Tagalog Sr., father of peasant killed in […]

The profession that never pays enough

By Reynald Denver del Rosario of UP-CMC for Kodao Productions LUDY LOCSIN would sit in her empty cream-colored office on most school day mornings, waiting for students to arrive. Before long, she would see through her window parents dropping off their children and seeing them off to their classrooms.  When the school bell rings at […]

Health workers condemn killing of 3rd barrio doctor

Health workers in Manila held a rally in front of the Philippine General Hospital Thursday to condemn the killing of Doctor George Repique Jr., the third “doctor to the barrios” killed under the Rodrigo Duterte government. Repique, Cavite province health officer, was killed by gunmen on board a motorcycle last July 12 in Trece Martirez […]