One Billion Rising international coordinator Monique Wilson led the launch of the fifth year of its annual event with the theme “Solidarity against exploitation of women.” Through dances and songs it has popularized since 2011, Wilson said their next celebration would focus on poverty and how it worsens the other injustices they suffer. The One […]
A special report by Abril Layad B. Ayroso “IT took eight months,” senior citizen Constancio Favor said of his attempts to get benefits from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through his district congressman. “I was only asking for medicine. I had to return to the office of Quezon City Third District […]
THE Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) has announced that the second round of peace negotiations between the Duterte government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) will be moved to earlier dates. “The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the NDFP have agreed to adjust […]
PROGRESSIVE groups led by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) marched to the US Embassy last September 16 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Philippine Senate’s rejection of the extension of the Philippine-United States of America Military Bases Agreement and to support “President Rodrigo Duterte’s independent foreign policy.” The protest celebrated the 1991 rejection by 12 senators […]
As it commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Senate vote rejecting an extension of the US-Philippine Military Bases Treaty, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan expressed support for President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration that foreign soldiers must leave Mindanao. Watch highlights of today’s protest action at the US Embassy.
Commemorating the 1991 rejection of a U.S. bases treaty, militant mass organizations stormed the U.S. embassy in Manila on Sep. 16, 2016 to protest the continued presence of American troops under the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). They expressed support to Pres. Duterte’s pursuit of an independent foreign policy, which […]
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE pHILIPPINES (NDFP) peace consultants Benito Tiamzon, Wilma Austria Tiamzon, Jaime Soledad, Rey Claro Casambre, Rafael Baylosis, visited the University of the Philippines in Diliman Quezon City for the first time since their release from prison or going above-ground last September 15. The group was welcomed by UP Diliman Chancellor Michael […]
Karatula, originally the cultural group of Kabataang Makabayan (KM), performs the short skit “Ang Libing” by Bonifacio P. Ilagan at forums and protest actions. A celebrated playwright, Ilagan was one of the earliest members of KM. He was arrested and tortured during Marcos’s Martial Law. His sister Rizalina was abducted by Marcos’s troops in the […]
Top revolutionary leaders Benito and Wilma Tiamzon gave their views on the “war on drugs” and cited the good example of China eradicating the drug problem which afflicted 77 million Chinese. Footage taken at a public forum with the Tiamzons on September 10, 2016 at the Fisher Mall in Quezon City.
THE Tiamzons, Benito and Wilma, explain the revolutionary struggle and the struggle for reforms . They also clarified the interim nature of the indefinite ceasefire mutually and unilaterally declared by the GRP and the NDFP and the possibility of forging a bilateral ceasefire as both parties negotiate on the substantial agenda of the peace talks. Watch […]