“Just when the company is doing better, the management wants to short change the employees.”
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UP professors support Cotabato farmers’ call for food, justice
“They were even maligned by the local government who told them, ‘mga patay gutom kayo hindi nyo alam kung pano pagtrabahuan ang mga ito. Dapat rice for work,’” (You starving to death people; you didn’t even work for this. We should have asked you to work in exchange for this rice.)
VP candidates’ environmental track records and platforms
The Green Vote campaign scrutinizes the vice presidentiables’ records and stands on key and urgent environmental issues that need to be addressed.
Kidapawan dispersal victims killed by gunshots, says forensic expert
Contrary to medico-legal reports, both farmers died from single, fatal gunshot wound, according to forensic expert Raquel Fortun.
Farmers dare presidentiables to recover, return coco levy
The National Conference of Small Coconut Farmers presented a seven-point proposal on the distribution of the coco levy funds.
U.S.-Philippines ‘special relations’ again? : A pre-election view from Washington DC
To US, “The only former Asian colony of the US, the Philippines is synonymous only with Paquiao the Boxer, Miss Universe, or some terrifying volcano or typhoon such as Yolanda/Haiyan.”
On the Kidapawan massacre and ‘daang matuwid’
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective When people use the phrase “Let them eat brioche (cake),” quoting a French queen – widely believed to be Queen Marie-Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, but later discovered to be Queen Marie Therese, wife of Louis XIV – who uttered the phrase in response to the clamor of hungry…
Reds to target US military bases in PH
“The US aims to firm up its military foothold in the country, which serves as a base for forward deployment of military forces in line with its hegemonic ‘Asia pivot’ to secure for itself the trade routes, sources of cheap labor and areas for investments in the Asia-Pacific countries.”
Freed political prisoner calls for release of Cotabato farmers
“They do not deserve to be in jail just like other political prisoners, whose rights have been violated from the very beginning.”
#BigasHindiBala | For Negros farmers, it’s ‘Escalante massacre’ all over again
“Didn’t the farmers of Escalante shout for land, rice, and better working conditions? And what did the government do? Just like the Kidapawan farmers, they were fed with bullets.
Court reduces Kidapawan farmers bail plea by half
Farmers were initially asked to post a P12,000 bail for the direct assault charges filed against them by the police.