Senator pushes to criminalize red-tagging; seeking 10-year imprisonment,...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon filed Senate Bill. 2121 dubbed as “An Act Defining and Penalizing Red-tagging” seeking red-tagging with punishable offence by up to 10-year imprisonment and...
View ArticleThe Lawfare: Weaponization of Search Warrants
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View ArticleTo Live in the Philippines is to Live in a State of Terror
In a country where human rights violation occur almost every day, a culture of impunity prevails. The spate of state terrorism against citizens are unwelcome sight; worse when being normalized. We, as...
View ArticleInternational nations extend support vs China’s yet another dispute on PH waters
United States, Australia, and Japan were the first international countries who have echoed their concern against China which vessels have been mooring in Julian Felipe Reef in West Philippine Sea...
View ArticleKontra-insurhensiya, pinatindi sa kabila ng panibagong lockdown
UPDATE (11:15 AM, Marso 29, 2021) “Masahol” kung ituring ng iba’t ibang progresibong grupo ang pag-usbong ng mga kontra-insurhensiyang taktika sa bisperas mismo ng panunumbalik ng Enhanced Community...
View ArticleUnang araw, ulit; Muling uulit. Paulit-ulit.
Mahigit isang taon nang nasa ilalim ng lockdown ang Pilipinas. Sa katunayan, may iba’t ibang salita nang ipinakilala sa atin, mula sa GCQ, MECQ, ECQ, MGCQ at itong taguring NCR+ bubble— ang punto lang...
View ArticleAng Pandemya sa Pasko ng Muling Pagsasa(buhay)
Kalbaryong maituturing ang patuloy na nararanasan nating mga Piliipino sa panahon ng pandemya. Kasabay ng Pasko ng Pagkabuhay dapat ang pagtatapos ng panibago at pinanumbalik na lockdown. Sa muling...
View ArticleMula sa masa, tungo sa masa
“Magbigay ayon sa kakayahan, kumuha ayon sa pangangailangan.” Ito ang paskil ng isang community pantry sa Lungsod Quezon. Pinasimulan ito ng isang nagmamalasakit na residente. Isang patungang may...
View Article#DuterteResign petition breaches 40,000 mark
“Kaya n’yo pa ba ang kapalpakan?” The #DuterteResign petition statement was initially signed by more than 500 medical frontliners, educators, youth leaders, religious, lawyers, civic leaders, and...
View ArticleRed-tagged worker suffers stroke, cannot be admitted to local hospitals
In a meeting for May 1 Labor Day on April 17, labor organizer Benito Cabasal, 58, suddenly suffered a stroke. This was the first time in days that he had resumed his political activities, after he...
View ArticleAn Unlikely Source of Hope
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” -Bernard Williams Death, Disease, hunger, bankruptcy, face masks, face shield, ICU. All these words have barged into our daily...
View ArticlePress freedom under attack, we fight back
As the world commemorates World Press Freedom Day, the media community and freedom-loving Filipinos grieve the rapidly shrinking space for free expression and press freedom. In the past year, the...
View ArticleA year off the air but never silenced
Today marks one year since the National Telecommunication Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on ABS-CBN and millions watched the network sign off at the end of “TV Patrol.” The order, which...
View Article‘Immoral, reprehensible, unjust’ freeze order on Vic Ladlad’s bank accounts...
The bank accounts containing Martial Law human rights reparation of detained peace consultant Vicente “Vic” Ladlad were frozen following the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) listing, revealed his wife...
View ArticleNo aid, more sanctions: the government’s repressive pandemic response
It’s been a year since the pandemic ravaged the world. Many countries are now implementing mass vaccination programs and slowly regaining their pre-pandemic day-to-day lives. The Philippine’s case, on...
View ArticleCosmetics sale proceeds to go to a political prisoners’ group
Sale for a cause. Colourette Cosmetics announced on their social media account that all of their sales on Lazada and Shopee app’s “Payday Sale” this June 15 will be donated a group that works for the...
View ArticlePeasant women suffer under Duterte
The attacks experienced by the members of peasant women group Amihan’s national network come in the form of red-tagging, imprisonment over criminal charges that are trumped-up or extrajudicial...
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