By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – The municipal coordinator of Anakpawis in Mawab, Compostela Valley was gunned down by still unidentified men last May 25, according to Karapatan-Southern Mindanao Region (SMR) chapter. Eddie Cañon, 43, was shot several times by suspected agents in Nuevo Iloco village, Mawab town on May 25. In a text…
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Workers push for wage hike bill in 15th Congress
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – This week marks the last nine session days before Congress takes a recess for election campaign. As such, workers led by labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) tried to remind the lawmakers not to leave behind their years-long demand for Congress to immediately pass the P125 across-the-board wage hike…
‘Send Gloria Arroyo back to jail’
‘Send Gloria Arroyo back to jail’ (Photo courtesy of Anakpawis Partylist / Bulatlat.com)
Progressive solons sign waiver, challenges Aquino, gov’t officials to ‘walk the talk’ on corruption
By Mao Hermitanio Bulatlat.com Main Article: After Corona’s removal, groups call for Arroyo’s conviction The Makabayan bloc of progressive partylist representatives in the House of Representatives today signed unconditional waivers of right of confidentiality and secrecy of bank deposits in response to the challenge for greater transparency and accountability in government brought about in part…
Lake authority hit for having ulterior motives in reporting fish contamination
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) claimed that eating tilapia lowers a child’s intelligence level. Fisherfolk organization Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) recently took umbrage over a study made by the LLDA in 2010, which claimed that children living around the 94,000 hectare Laguna Lake have…
High production costs, low farm gate prices battering rice farmers – KMP
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The day after their successful National Rice Farmers’ Conference held at the University of the Philippines, farmers from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Amihan – National Federation of Peasant Women, and Anakpawis party-list, held a mass action at the Department…
Bill to compensate martial law victims barely moving
By RONALYN V. OLEA
It has been 26 years since dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos was toppled but the victims of tyranny have not received any compensation from the government.
Peasant, fisherfolk groups renew call for pull-out from the WTO
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
In the 17 years that the Philippines has been a member of the World Trade Organization, from being a net importer of rice, it became a net exporter as production fell considerably and land grabbing became rampant. Now, even vegetables are being heavily imported and soon imported fish products would flood the country, all in the name of the WTO.
What happened to Aquino’s programs addressing climate change? – solon
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com What has happened to the Aquino administration’s commitment to address issues connected to climate change? In the aftermath of two killer typhoons Pedringa and Quiel, a lawmaker is demanding that President Benigno Aquino III issues a report on the accomplishments of his administration’s Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Program.…
Support for wage hike bills snowballs in Congress
By MARYA SALAMAT
The recorded profit of the top 1,000 corporations in the Philippines ballooned more than five times (552-percent) in a decade, but the average wages and salaries increased only 31-percent over the same period.
Sidebar: Rep. Winnie Castelo will ‘plank’ for P125 wage hike bill
Workers hail legislators’ forum on wage hike
Reposted by MANILA — Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno hailed today a forum of legislators in the House of Representatives which takled the need for and prospects of a legislated wage hike, saying the increasing prices of basic goods and services warrant such a measure. The legislators’ forum was organized by the HOR Labor Committee…