On April 22, the 52nd Earth Day organizers aim to reach a billion people to call for urgent attention to address the planet’s health. Filipino environmental groups who have long called for the protection of the environment, natural resources and ancestral lands against local and foreign plunder, have heeded this call. This month, Filipino activists […]

Units of the New People’s Army (NPA) reported mounting 12 armed actions in Eastern Visyas, Northeast Mindanao and Ilocos-Cordillera regions. The NPA-Northern Samar (Rodante Urtal Command) ambushed combined police and militay forces last April 3 in Barangay San Miguel, Las Navas. Two were killed while five others were wounded on the enemy side. Earlier, an […]

Majority of groups running under the party list system this coming May elections do not represent the poor, contrary to the declared objectives of the party list system. This was the conclusion arrived at by a research made by electoral watchdog Kontra Daya in March. Apart from having connections with big businesses and the military, […]

Indigenous Filipinos have long called for the abolition of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) and the repeal of the law that created it, the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act. The NCIP has long betrayed its mandate of protecting and upholding the interests and welfare of minorities. Indigenous peoples have exposed that besides corruption, the […]

The revolutionary movement in Negros Island regarded the decision of the Bacolod Regional Trial Court (BRTC) on the murder of activist Benjamin Bayles by state forces as a win against state fascism, although many familes of victims of political killings alongside thousands of victims of human rights violations (HRV) in Negros and the entire country […]