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Groups welcome Women’s Month with demands for lower prices

“We highlight the hardships experienced by Filipino women who struggle daily to put food on the table amid unabated price increases. Ang mga kababaihan ang unang nakakaramdam ng kagutuman kapag hindi sapat ang budget para sa pamilya,” Rep. Arlene Brosas said.

AN EDSA STORY: Mody Floranda’s rise from child farmer to Senate bet

As a poor young boy who cast his net beside his father in a remote lake in the fastness of Laguna, Mody Floranda never imagined he’d be casting his net for votes for the Senate. This time, however, it would not simply be for physical nourishment but for fellow transport workers who have come to look up to him as a steadfast and principled leader, the kind portrayed in many FPJ movies he watched as a child.

Lawyers accuse NTF-ELCAC of lying before UN

“Stripped of its empty rhetoric, NTF-ELCAC is a state-funded machinery of repression—trading in fear, thriving on impunity, and silencing those who expose its lies. No propaganda can wash away the blood on its hands. It exists to criminalize activism, erode democratic space, and justify the persecution of those who dare to resist,” NUPL secretary general Atty. Josalee Deinla said.

Rotting NFA palay

Scrap RLL, crisis and crippled local production; mill and release stored palay immediately and distribute fit-for-consumption rice for free to calamity victims and poor consumers, and; rice must not be auctioned to private traders, as the amended RLL dictates.

Foundation to preserve Joma Sison legacy launches

“Sison’s life-long work as a great thinker and practical leader of a revolutionary movement has not only changed the course of Philippine history as it pertains to the Filipino people’s struggle for national and social liberation but has also inspired and influenced progressive and revolutionary movements around the world,” the TJMSLF said.

Bilibid officials refusing food delivery to PDLs

“ANO ANG PROBLEMA SA LUGAW? Please transmit this post to Director General Gregorio Catapang of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), DOJ (Department of Justice) Sec. Boying Remulla and the Commission on Human Rights,” Kapatid spokesperson Fides Lim said.