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NDF-SMR condemns eco-zone construction in Davao City’s militarized areas
July 21, 2022

The National Democratic Front-Southern Mindanao Region (NDF-SMR) condemned the Duterte family’s plan to construct an economic zone in the most militarized areas of Davao City. This shows that land grabbing is the real objective of then Davao City and now vice president Sara Duterte-Carpio’s counterinsurgency campaign. In the second week of July, the local government […]

Protests
July 21, 2022

Quezon City flood victims demand aid. Residents of Barangay Tatalon, Quezon City trooped to the DSWD’s office last July 18 to demand food and aid. Their community was submerged in neck-deep floods last July 16. Power crisis in Mindoro. Scores of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro residents marched to the town center on the evening of […]

Duterte’s legacy to Marcos: Destructive reclamation projects
July 21, 2022

During his first days in power, Ferdinand Marcos Jr vetoed the bill that would create an economic zone in Bulacan where San Miguel Corporation’s (SMC) grand Aerotropolis project is set to be constructed. He said the contract put the state at a disadvantage. In reality, he only wanted to renegotiate the project to his advantage. […]

In short
July 21, 2022
The Coco Levy Fund swindle
July 21, 2022

In the late 1970s, widespread peasant protests broke out over the US-Marcos I dictatorship’s fraudulent Coco Levy Fund. To pacify the peasant masses’ militant rising, Marcos ordered the suspension of the levy collection on September 17, 1980. It failed to placate the enraged coconut farmers. They could not accept how billions upon billions of peses […]

Mammoth protests oust Sri Lanka's president
July 21, 2022

Hundreds of thousands of outraged Sri Lankans stormed and seized President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s palace in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo last July 9. The storming of the palace is a high point in the four-month protest actions in the face of intensified economic crisis, hunger and poverty in Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa was forced to vacate his […]

US sanctions against Russia exacerbate the global food crisis
July 21, 2022

Even before war broke out in Ukraine, a global food crisis was already in the offing due to pandemic trade restrictions, adverse effects of climate change and rising oil prices and natural gas prices. This global crisis was pushed to the brink by sanctions one-sidedly imposed by the US on Russia. Sanctions are trade and investment […]

4 na organisador, mag-asawang magsasaka, dinukot ng militar
July 21, 2022

Apat na aktibista at organisador ang dinukot ng armadong pwersa ng estado noong Mayo at Hunyo ayon sa ulat ng Kilusang Mayo Uno at Gabriela nitong Hulyo. Dagdag dito, dinukot ng 94th IB ang mag-asawang magsasaka sa Himamaylan City ngayong buwan. Hindi pa rin natutunton ang mga biktimang sina Elizabeth “Loi” Magbanua at Alipio “Ador” […]

Pagpaslang sa batang Mangyan, kinundena ng NDFP
July 21, 2022

Nanawagan ng hustisya si Coni Ledesma, pinuno ng Special Office for the Protection of Children ng NDFP, para sa batang pinatay ng mga elemento ng 4th IB 4th IB sa Sityo Tauga Daka, Barangay San Vicente, Roxas, Oriental Mindoro noong Hulyo 3. Namatay ang bata matapos paulanan ng bala ng mga sundalo at pulis ang […]

80 tindahan sa Carbon Market, dinemolis
July 21, 2022

Magkasunod na demolisyon ang isinagawa ng mga tauhan ng lokal na gubyerno ng Cebu City sa 80 tindahan sa Unit II sa Carbon Public Market noong Hulyo 15 at 18. Kaugnay ito ng isasagawang pribatisasyon sa naturang palengke na pinangangasiwaan ng Mega-wide Construction Corporation, katuwang ang lokal na gubyerno. Ayon sa grupong Carbonhanong Alyansa alang […]