Starting them young
Neighborhood kids learn the value of working and earning early by selling flower garlands to churchgoers on a Sunday morning. (Quezon City. Photo by R. Villanueva)
Groups deny benefits from coal plants
By SHERWIN DE VERA www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Environmental groups in Ilocos rebuked the claims of economic benefits by coal-fired power plant proponents. The Ilocos Network for the Environment (Defend Ilocos) and Save Sual Movement (SSM), in a separate statement, argued that health and environmental cost out weights the promise of jobs and royalties from […]
Rice Fields and Carabaos: A Glimpse of Rural Life in the Philippines
Text by Mong Palatino / Global Voices Southeast Asia Editor Photos by Lito Ocampo Veteran photographer and activist Lito Ocampo has been making frequent visits to his hometown of Pampanga, located in the central part of Luzon Island in the Philippines, to escape the noise and dirt of the capital region Manila. His visits allowed […]
Unsolicited projects for favored business interests to rise under Pres. Duterte?
By Arnold Padilla / IBON Features When President Duterte said last month that “all projects of the Philippines would be something like a Swiss Challenge”, media attention has focused on the Swiss Challenge and its implications. But what the presidential statement implied was that in order to supposedly fast track his ambitious Build Build Build program, the […]
EASTER HOMILY
By Jason Montana Open your eyes to the power of the people and the arms they bear Of sacrament and gun and a story living in their hearts. How different is the violence of the ruling classes and their foreign masters In their social system of exploitation and oppression! The people’s war is violence […]
Satur’s lawyers seek his dismissal from DOJ list
Lawyers have asked the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 19 to dismiss the petition against former Representative Saturnino “Satur” Ocampo in connection with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) move to have the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army (NPA) proscribed as terrorist organizations. In a notice of special apperance filed […]
No strike today: Piston condemns Palace suspension of classes
Jeepney drivers and operators condemned Malacañan Palace’s suspension of classes Tuesday based merely on “slightest threat of a [jeepney] strike.” In a statement, Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (Piston) chairperson George San Mateo said there is no truth to Malacañan’s announcement the group planned to have more jeepney strikes after Monday. “As […]
PH minerals benefit foreigners not Filipinos
By IBON.org Majority of Philippine minerals are exported and mainly benefit foreign corporations, research group IBON said. While ensuring environmentally safe and responsible mining methods, the Duterte administration should also ban the exodus of the country’s raw minerals. These should instead be efficiently reserved for and utilized to support and develop the country’s key industries […]
A global disgrace
By Luis V. Teodoro President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed his displeasure over the continuing attention being paid by various groups and organizations such as Amnesty International and other human rights groups and the United Nations, to the extrajudicial killings (EJKs) in the country, particularly those identified with the regime’s murderous “war” on drugs. Thirty-nine countries […]
Thousands of complaints since CARHRIHL signing, NDFP says
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) said nearly seven thousand complaints of human rights and international humanitarian law violations have been received by its Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP). At a forum marking the 20th anniversarry of the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on […]