Aspiring students want the concerned government agencies to check on the operation of paramilitary group Alamara so they can go back to school.
Category: Other Stories
Teachers’ protest vs K to 12 set on school opening
“We will not stop calling for the suspension of the K to 12 program.”
Nationalist economist passes away
“He was US-educated and he was able to see through the American agenda in the Philippines. He often talked about uplifting the lives of the poor, Philippine industrialization, and love of country”
Groups want palm oil toxic pesticides banned
“This pesticide is so poisonous that a teaspoonful can kill a human being. Workers die when their backpack sprayer malfunctions and they get covered in the herbicide.”
WTO chief in PH | Farmers slam liberalization in agriculture
“The WTO and its so-called free trade destroyed our country’s food self-sufficiency and food security.”
An image of a modern heroine and the revolution
Review of Recca: From Diliman to the Cordilleras
Recca’s sister Jang Monte-Hernandez urges everyone to read the book, especially those who want to know why there is a raging revolution in the countryside and why the NPA remains a formidable force despite successive counterinsurgency campaigns of the past and present administrations.
Congress security ‘blacklists’ activists
A number of mass leaders and activists are now banned from Congress for “shouting and displaying of banners” inside its august halls.
3 farmers shot dead in Bicol
Karapatan said the killings and military abuses in the area were meant to sow terror among villagers.
‘My daughter was seen inside military detachment’ — Erlinda Cadapan
“The mere fact that such safe houses existed further proves that there are ‘unofficial’ military camps where people are held incommunicado and deprived of their rights.”
Rights group blames paramilitary, private guards for disappearance of Lumad activist
“We demand from the BS Aquino government to immediately surface John Calaba.”
Pulileños celebrate the Kneeling Carabao festival
Farmers, hopeful for a bountiful harvest, train their carabaos to give tribute to their patron saint, San Isidro.