Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s message on National Press Freedom Day
I urge young journalists to never stop writing — our pens have once toppled down a dictatorship.
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I urge young journalists to never stop writing — our pens have once toppled down a dictatorship.
“Not a single success story, not one was recovered even with orders from the court."
“It was easy for other people to tell me to give up the fight. But win or lose, I’ll never stop fighting. I’ll never lose hope for Darwin."
“The presidential order is apparently intended to assure potential investors that national government mechanisms are in place to respond to Pax Silica's mineral requirements.”
“The government must be held accountable for continuing to fund and sustain avenues that manufacture malicious narratives."
“To ignore this UN ruling is to further slain the Philippines' record on press freedom, human rights, and democracy.”
Psychiatrists and child mental health specialists insist that preparedness and psychological well-being should not be treated as competing priorities.
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“She ultimately chose to travel to the Philippines to volunteer with marginalized communities because she was so moved by the plight of migrant workers and understood that to truly understand and solve this, the answers are in the Philippines itself.”
Consumers expect their items to arrive in a snap. But this is not simply because of technology – but because of the women workers’ labor inside those massive warehouses.
"We hope there will be no more mining projects and that these mining companies will leave, because I know that mining is not the only way a community can achieve progress."
"Marcos is at the top, and those at the lower levels cannot be the only ones held accountable."
From the island and mountains of Rizal to the watershed of Samar Island, wind energy projects are being built on the forests that protect communities from floods and landslides.
“As researchers and members of alternative media groups, we do not confine ourselves to social media, secondhand, thirdhand information. We do not confine ourselves to desks."
“This success in Dupax del Norte is a success against mining all over the Philippines."
“The more we speak, the more they target us,” Sheerah Escudero, sister of drug war victim Ephraim Escudero, told Bulatlat in Filipino. “Even the dead were not spared. They tell me, ‘How about the victims of drug addicts like your brother?’”
Cordillera’s rich natural resources have attracted local and international companies eager to profit from them. But for the Indigenous Peoples of the region, everything is interconnected. The destruction of their land means the destruction of their life, culture, and identity. Their resistance to so-called development projects has spanned many decades.
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Balikan natin kung bakit tinawag na ‘perfect failure’ ang pag-atake ng United States sa Bay of Pigs sa Cuba.
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