Three barangay watchmen were abducted by police and soldiers on July 4 at midnight and were massacred in the boundary of ba­ra­ngays Ba­gacay and Ma­rin­toc in Mobo, Masbate. The victims, identified as Edgar Mingoy, Marlon Bajar and Rolly de la Cruz, were all falsely presented before the media as members of the New People’s Army […]

The order of Sec. Eduardo Año of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to the Philippine National Police (PNP) to do “house-to-house” to search and “apprehend” and bring Covid-19 positive individuals to quarantine facilities is another militarist measure. Año’s new order will further trample on civil rights. This goes against even the reactionary […]

A former official of the Supreme Court asserted that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army (NPA) cannot be declared terrorists under the new Anti-Terror Act (ATA). Former Associate Justice Antonio Carpio shared this view in reaction to Duterte’s declaration that “the CPP is terrorist because I declare it to […]

The Movement Against Tyranny and Concer­ned Law­yers for Civil Li­ber­ti­es protested in front of the Commission on Human Rights in Quezon City last July 11 to oppose the Anti-Terror Act. The said groups are among those that filed the 10th petition at the Supreme Court demanding to junk the law. On July 16, the Catholic […]

The 67,000-strong American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended last June for schools to be opened and for students to be present in schools the soonest possible time. They came up with eight principles in considering school re-entry policies in its paper entitled “COVID-19 Planning Considerations: Guidance for School Re-entry,” last updated on June 25. It […]

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to aggravate hunger in countries where food crisis is most severe and is creating new epicenters of hunger across the globe. In a report published last July 9, Oxfam International identified 10 countries where hunger is most severe, as well as four countries which are experiencing rapidly rising levels of hunger […]

Nurses of the San Laza­ro Hos­pi­tal in Manila City mounted a silent protest last July 16 to demand better treatment. The nurses disclosed that around 60 health workers in the hospital were infected with Covid-19. Among them are 48 patients who compose 60% of the facilities Covid-19 patients. They lamented that the infections were primarily […]

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Translation/s: Bisaya | English Da­pat kon­so­li­da­hin ng la­hat ng de­mok­ra­ti­kong pwer­sa ang ka­ni­lang ha­nay at su­por­ta­han ang isa’t isa sa ka­ni­lang mga de­mok­ra­ti­kong pa­ki­ki­ba­ka la­ban sa re­hi­meng Duterte. Kai­la­ngang-kai­la­ngan nga­yon ang pag­ka­kai­sa sa ha­rap ng su­nud-su­nod na pag­sa­la­kay ng ti­ra­no sa in­te­res ng ba­yan. Noong Hul­yo 10, ipi­na­tu­pad ng su­nud-su­nu­rang kong­re­so ang utos ni Du­ter­te […]