The issue of divorce came up again recently after Congress approved a bill legalizing it in the Philippines. Unlike annulment and legal separation, the legal option of divorce is to dissolve the marriage, reverting the couple to “single” status and allowing them to marry someone else. Divorce is already legal worldwide, except for the Philippines […]

El Niño has ended and the rainy season has started, but the toiling masses, especially farmers and fisherfolk, still bear the burden of the destruction of their livelihoods by the drought intensified by climate change. The Marcos regime’s response to the nearly one-year drought is grossly insufficient and hypocritical. In the most recent conservative data […]

Ferdinand Marcos Jr insists farmers are benefiting from the bogus Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) under his regime. In recent months, he has been going around the country to conduct ceremonies of distributing Certificates of Land Ownership Awards (CLOA). These are hollow spectacles because the truth is the country’s farmlands remain in the hands of […]

ON JUNE 10, progressive organizations of farmers, fisherfolk and land rights advocates led by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas protested before the DAR in Quezon City in conjunction with the 36th year of CARP. They condemned the rottenness of the longest, most expensive, and most repressive “land reform.” Farmers from Bulacan who were victims of the […]