PNP ‘profiling’ of ACT members continues
Progressive teachers said they have monitored at least 34 visits by the Philippine National Police (PNP) to schools nationwide to look for teachers to “profile” as “communists”. Since the start of the year, ACT said the PNP’s profiling activities have spread to 10 regions nationwide. In a forum at the College of Education of the […]
Businessmen cashing in on Metro Manila Reclamation project–IBON
Research group IBON said that the Manila Bay reclamation project under the Build, Build, Build program is a profit-led infrastructure plan that will mainly benefit big business. The group said that contrary to government claims, the project will displace nearby communities from their homes and livelihoods and destroy the environment. The Manila Bay Reclamation project […]
‘Paano na ang mga magsasaka?’
President Rodrigo Duterte has recently approved the Rice Tarrication Law, allowing massive rice importation into the country.
Teachers receive death threats; suffer red-tagging from educ official
Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) officers revealed receiving death threats through phone calls this morning. In a statement, ACT in Central Luzon said Raymond Basilo, ACT national secterary general, as well as three members of their regional executive board received separate calls and text messages from a person who alternately introduced himself as Juvy Canete, […]
Groups demand junking of TRAIN Law
Progressive organizations and Partylist groups held protested at the office of Bureau of Internal Revenue in Quezon City Wednesday, February 12, demanding the junking of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law (TRAIN) and Oil Deregulation Law. Saying both laws have severely eroded the people’s economic wellbeing, the protesters also demanded an increase in […]
Kampuhan ng mga manggagawang agrikultural, dinepensahan ng kolektibong pagluluto
Ni Roge Gonzales Nitong Pebrero 10 ng umaga, sa pangunguna ng Sama-samang Artista para sa Kilusang Agraryo (SAKA), inilunsad ang Luto! Laban! Sunday Cookout para sa NAMASUFA sa Liwasang Bonifacio, Maynila. Tumungo ang mga artistang alyado ng SAKA at mga boluntaryo mula sa industriya ng sining, kultura, at kaalaman sa protest camp ng Nagkahiusang Mamumuo […]
On Maria Ressa’s arrest
Journos raise alarm over anonymous drug lists
BACOLOD CITY – The media community in Negros Occidental is up in arms following the circulation since late last week of at least three lists of purported “drug protectors” that included at least 15 of their colleagues. The journalists said they are worried that the circulation of the anonymous lists could put their colleagues’ lives […]
‘Che Guevarra of the Philippines’: Beta Sigma vows to keep Randy Malayao’s name alive
SAN PABLO, Isabela–They called his name three times at the end of a long roll call. But unlike the others, no “Here I am!” came after “Brod Randy Felix Malayao” was called. “Brothers in the Beta Sigma Fraternity, I regret to inform you that our brother Randy Felix P. Malayao died last January 30, 2019,” […]
High alert or high insecurity? Police swarm Tuguegarao as activists prepare for Malayao burial
By Tonyo Cruz TUGUEGARAO CITY–Hundreds of cops and Special Action Force personnel swarmed parts of Tuguegarao City on Wednesday as activists from across Region II started to gather for the burial of slain activist Randy Felix Malayao. The remains of Malayao — an NDFP peace consultant, regional chair of Bayan Muna and national vice president […]