Correspondence. The hardships suffered by migrant workers doubled when the Covid-19 pandemic raged across the world. These migrants include Julie, a migrant teacher from Mindanao who has been working for several years in another Asian country, where the number of Filipino migrants is relatively low. She admitted she decided to leave her family and country […]

It is impossible that Rodrigo Duterte has nothing to do with the “grand conspiracy” to defraud the government of billions of pesos during the height of the pandemic last year. He is in the center of the swindle perpetrated mainly by his Chinese businessman friend and economic adviser Michael Yang, officials of the Pharmally Pharmaceutial […]

The peasants and farm workers in Negros Island are in life and death conditions brought about by widespread land grabbing, neoliberal agrarian policies, yearly dead season (colloquially referred to as ‘tigkiriwi’) and intensified militarization in peasant communities according to the Pambansang Katipunan ng Magbubukid or PKM-Negros (National Association of Peasants) in its statement commemorating this […]

Masyadong halatado ang pinatindi at sinkronisadong kampanya ng kasinungalingan at panlalansi ng iba’t ibang dibisyon ng Armed Forces of the Philippines sa nakaraang ilang buwan, na grumabe pa nitong Oktubre, na ang pinakapaborito nila ay ang mga diumanong sunud-sunod na pagsurender ng mga mandirigma, milisya at baseng masa ng New People’s Army. Hindi patatalo at […]

After three years, families of nine farm workers who were brutally massacred while engaging in “bungkalan” or land cultivation activities at Hacienda Nene, Purok FireTree, Barangay Bulanon, Sagay City, Negros Occidental are still shedding tears as justice continues to evade them. The Apolinario Gatmaitan Command of the New People’s Army – Negros Island (AGC-NPA) issued […]