“It would not have come to this if students are regarded as humans with rights, rather than as fodder for factories and the labor market,” KPL first nominee Renee Co said.
“Instead of issuing a sincere apology, Sia showed no remorse and even doubled down, hiding behind ‘freedom of speech’ in a desperate attempt to brush off the serious harm caused by his remarks,” said Gabriela Partylist Representative and senatorial candidate Arlene Brosas.
“Despite the evidence, why was he not released? We think it is because of the PhP 7.8 million bounty on the head of the person whose name is similar to my father’s,” Analyn said.
The Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government is not telling health workers when will they be paid for their performance-based bonuses (PBB) from 2021 to 2023 when the corona virus pandemic was still raging over much of the country.
For human rights lawyer Kristina Conti, the ICC proceedings offer a rare and vital opportunity to confront the truth about Duterte’s “drug war” and to establish that extrajudicial killings are wrong—under any leader, in any era.
Ocampo said he “very much agrees” with all the demands in the agenda and expressed delight in several items, including those against red-tagging, the abolition of the NTF-ELCAC (National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict), the repeal of the Anti-Terrorism Act and other repressive laws, and the enactment of a human rights defenders bill.
Ian Aragoza, spokesperson of the Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) and co-lead petitioner, stressed the importance of manual vote counting: “Because the source code is not available to the public, we don’t know how the machines count and transmit our votes.”
It is no wonder that despite numerous triumphs of “dynasty slayers” out there, we can still see dynasties persist across the county. Is it possible to prevent them from coming back to power?
“Preventing government employees from expressing their views on political issues in social media, especially on policies and politicians affecting their rights and welfare as government workers, is curtailing their rights to freedom of expression as workers and as citizens,” Gaite emphasized.
The Apostols of Leyte, the Felixes of Rizal’s Cainta town, and the Eusebios of Pasig City were dislodged from their perch by neophytes.
