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Intervention of Laban ng Masa Chair Walden Bello at the Freedom from Debt Coalition State of the People Assembly (SOPA), July 20, 2021
Thank you, FDC friends, for inviting me to this State of the People online assembly to talk about the New Politics.
How the Media Dumbs Down the People
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The Makabayan bloc warns that the government’s campaign against dissent won’t stop at members of the progressive coalition.
In March 2021 when Covid-19 cases rose anew in the Philippine capital, Gabriela Rep. Arlene Brosas and fellow officers of the women’s party-list group braved the pandemic (...)
Philippine foreign policy urgently requires a strategic reboot in response to the country’s changing external realities. The adversarial competition between the world’s core of imperialist great powers continues to roil and affect the global strategic environment. As an archipelagic state with a (...)
China’s unilateral seizure of and the building of installations in maritime formations within the Philippines’ 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (also known as the West Philippine Sea) as well as in the greater South China Sea is illegal and reflects big power aggressive expansionism. China should (...)
Military conflict not only disrupts communities and denies them the right to live in peace, it also makes it difficult for working people to independently assert themselves. War doesn’t only lead to deaths, physical and physiological harm, institutions such as unions, cooperatives, and other (...)
After the launching of a community pantry resulted in crowd chaos and the death of a 67-year-old man, government officials and the media were quick to point fingers: at the well-meaning celebrity philanthropist, who remorsefully owned up to her failure to coordinate with barangay officials; at (...)
The current wave of red-tagging in the Philippines, where the government “tags” or describes certain people as being communists, has become more vicious in recent weeks, attacking journalists, actors, NGO workers, religious, educators, and members of Congress and, lately, even those who organize (...)
First of all, the good news. In February, Senator de Lima was acquitted of one of the three charges against her. The bad news is that, despite of all the efforts of her legal team to have the other two charges against her dropped, she continues to prosecuted. It is clear that Malacanang has (...)
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, almost 4.5 million citizens lost their jobs in 2020, which translates to around 10.3 unemployment rate, the highest in fifteen years. Beyond these cold statistics, many stories went viral on social media about patients unable to secure admission (...)
Ex-CNN reporter and founder of the news site Rappler on life under the relentless social media assault of the Duterte regime
As terrible as the events were that played out on Capitol Hill on 6 January, Maria Ressa admits to feeling “a small amount of relief” about them. An ex-CNN bureau chief, (...)
They are a familiar sight in hospitals round the world, yet their country faces a nursing shortage. COVID-19 has exposed a healthcare system in the Philippines that is failing its nurses, and the programme Undercover Asia looks at the issues.
MANILA: The video images are grainy, but Philippine (...)
Urban legends about the Marcos family’s wealth do not violate YouTube’s community guidelines, legitimizing their alleged ill-gotten wealth, changing public perception, and allowing them to return to power
At a glance: Lies about the wealth of the family of the late dictator and president (...)
No one expects Rodrigo Duterte to be another Winston Churchill, rallying the country in the face of a savage pandemic that, like the bombs falling on London during the Second World War, has dealt a terrible, swift death to unsuspecting friends and loved ones.
But the country certainly expects (...)
In trying to get state protection, Miguel and the KMU approach the CHR first, aware of the difficulty of securing court protection through the writ of amparo
Dandy Miguel, the 35-year-old vice chair of labor group Pamantik-Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), has been extra busy since last year helping (...)
The apparently extrajudicial slaughter of nine Leftist activists two weeks ago, coming soon after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered military and police forces to “kill” and “finish off” communist forces, brings to mind the remarkable and historic confession made by Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller (...)
Clothing donated for a relief operation was instead used to wipe Emmanuel Asuncion’s blood off the floor of the Worker’s Assistance Center in the Calabarzon region of the Philippines on 7 March. Not too far away in Batangas, the 9-year-old son of Chai Lemita Evangelista and Ariel Evangelista hid (...)
‘Earth indeed hath witnessed no fury greater than that of Big Pharma, when its patents are threatened in the interest of public health’
The Philippines, like so many other countries in this time of COVID-19, is caught in the worst of all possible worlds, or between a rock and a hard place. On (...)
The major trend in central-local relations in the Philippines under the regime of President Rodrigo Duterte has been the capacity of the presidential palace to exert a very tight grip over local politicians—arguably the tightest since the martial-law dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos (1972-1986). (...)
‘It has become a joke, for instance, to hear of Mikey Arroyo, son of former President Gloria Arroyo, elected as the representative of a party list for security guards and tricycle drivers’
There is now another attempt by Congress to amend the protective economic provisions of the 1987 (...)
‘Instead of chasing after foreign investments by offering our lands and resources, we should make the oligarchy pay for the centuries-old monopolization of wealth in the country’
In January, the representatives of the Lower House of Congress have opened deliberations on charter change (Cha-Cha) (...)
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