EDITORIAL CARTOON: Workers’ retribution
(By AMEL SABANGAN) As big Philippine business deny they practice contractualization, tens of thousands of workers march today, International Labor Day, to expose the ugly reality. Kilusang Mayo Uno said that only 10 percent of the local labor force are unionized because employers and the government implemented contractualization to try to kill unionism and further exploit Philippine […]
STREETWISE: Elections — the ultimate con game by Carol Pagaduan-Araullo
Streetwise Elections — the ultimate con game Whoever figuratively likened Philippine elections to a circus decades ago could not have imagined how literally true the metaphor has become these days. Aside from the carnival atmosphere and blaring jingles, there are the candidates trying all sorts of tricks to dazzle and convince us of their worth, […]
EDITORIAL CARTOON: Government response
By AMEL SABANGAN. It has been a constant refrain by the Aquino government, that many of those who oppose its policies are branded as communist rebels. It does not matter if they are human rights defenders, indigenous peoples’ educators, or starved farmers. They often end up in jail, hospitals or, worst, dead in the government’s […]
Workers launch national minimum wage campaign
The group All Workers Unity held a rally on April 25, 2016 from Rizal Park to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Intramuros Manila to launch their national minimum wage campaign. The group challenges the outgoing Benigno Aquino government to raise private sector workers’wage by P750 and set the minimum salary of P16,000. […]
ITANONG MO KAY PROF: On the Kidapawan violence
In this podcast, International League of Peoples’ Struggles chairperson Jose Maria Sison presents his analysis on the violent dispersal of the starving farmers in Kidapawan City last April 1.
STREETWISE: The lure of strongman rule by Carol Pagaduan-Araullo
Streetwise Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is leading in the latest surveys on who voters are inclined to choose as vice president come May 9. The news is troubling as well as perplexing. The prospect that the political heirs of the Dictator Marcos will be returning to Malacanang marks a major advance in the full blown […]
ITANONG MO KAY PROF: On the possible return of the Marcoses in Malacañan
In this podcast, Martial Law survivor Jose Ma. Sison talks about the dark days of the Marcos dictatorship and the dangers of electing Senator Ferdinand Marcos as the next vice president of the Philippines. Sison, who was heavily tortured and imprisoned in isolation for many years by the Marcos dictatorship, blames the two Aquino governments […]
Farmers were clearly targeted, lawyer says
Darwin Sulang, one of the two killed in the violent dispersal of protesting farmers in Kidapawan City last April was targeted by a police sniper. This was revealed by peoples’ lawyer Ephraim Cortez in a press conference with other human rights defenders and peasant leaders in Quezon City last April 15. Cortez said that the […]
CONTRIBUTED VIDEO: DOJ asked to release arrested Kidapawan farmers
Kidapawan farmers and their supporters picketed the Department of Justice on April 13 in the Philippines to press for the immediate release of those illegally detained by the police and pursue justice for the victims of the bloody dispersal of April 1. Only 10 of the 77 farmers arrested have been released as of April […]
UP professor reveals harassment of farmers in Kidapawan
University of the Philippines Professor Gerardo Lanuza reveals in a press conference the continuing harassment victims of the April 1 Kidapawan shooting suffer. Lanuza participated in a fact-finding mission to Kidapawan a few days after the incident. He was assigned to interview four injured farmers, but was prevented by the presence of four soldiers armed […]