Rights groups decry harassment of campus journalists
“[They should]…allow Joshua to freely speak his mind, and to instead to help him ventilate the valid complaints he is raising regarding the Duterte administration’s response to the pandemic. Teachers should be the last ones to discourage critical and independent thinking among students. Neither should they encourage blind, unthinking obedience to authority,” the CEGP alumni said.
Filipino seafarer dies of Covid-19 in San Francisco, groups worry about hundreds on board cruise ship
Following the Filipino seafarer’s death, labor and community organizations amplified demands for transparency, testing and treatment for the hundreds of workers still on board the ship.
CPP: Gov’t in contempt of UN’s global ceasefire plea with ‘non-stop combat operations’
“[Government] Military and police units across the country have continued to carry out relentless offensives despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s unilateral ceasefire declaration which covers the period March 19 to April 15,” Marco Valbuena, CPP chief information officer, said.
COVID-19: Paracetamol, ibuprofen and other anti-fever drugs should be avoided
Paracetamol, ibuprofen and other anti-fever drugs should be avoided, nothwithstanding the World Health Organization’s (WHO) flip-flopping advise regarding ibuprofen use for COVID-19 symptoms.
‘Maawa na kayo dito sa San Roque dos’
“Maawa na kayo dito sa San Roque dos, simula nung nagbigayan dito wala pang nakakarating sa amin kahit isa. Kahapon may dumating na isang truck at dalawang ambulansya na may laman na pinamimigay na bigas ngunit dun lang sa looban tapos dito walang nakarating. Ang sabi babahay-bahayin kaya pinauwi kami. Naghintay kami hanggang gabi ngunit walang hiya, nakatulog nalang kami. Walang nakarating na repack (relief) na galing sa kanila.”
Sitio San Roque: Bigas hindi dahas
Nagsagawa ang mga miyembro ng Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (KADAMAY) ng Sitio San Roque, Barangay Bagong Pag-asa, Quezon City ng isang maikling programa. Ito ay matapos na pagdadamputin at ikulong ang 21 na residente ng nasabing lugar.
Duterte report shows govt COVID-19 response is insufficient, insensitive
Research group IBON said that that the Duterte administration’s first official report on COVID-19 efforts only underscored just how government response to the worst public health crisis the country has ever faced is slow, insufficient, and insensitive.
Police arrest hungry protesters in Quezon City
Twenty-one protesting and hungry Quezon City residents were arrested Tuesday morning, April 1, the incident earning swift condemnation from the urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay).
BAYAN demands freedom of all political prisoners
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) joined UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s call for the freedom of all political prisoners in the time of the corona virus disease (Covid-19) pandemic to save them from possibly contracting the virus in the often crowded and inhumane conditions of jails worldwide, especially in the Philippines. The action […]
NPA celebrates 51st anniversary with mass health campaign
“In its message to the NPA, the CPP Central Committee directed the NPA to mark this day by reaffirming its pledge to serve the people by mobilizing its forces, together with the revolutionary mass organizations, in a public health campaign to prevent the spread of Covid-19.,” the CPP’s Information Bureau said in a statement.