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[ August 14, 2018 ] Karapatan welcomes dismissal of trumped-up charges vs Makabayan4, calls for abolition of IACLA Human Rights
[ August 13, 2018 ] CL, Manila prices barely differ Economy
[ August 13, 2018 ] TRAIN-2: The Sequel Makes Things Worse Economy
[ August 13, 2018 ] Mga biktima Floodway demolition, nagsampa ng kaso sa gobyerno sa Joint Monitoring Committee Features
[ August 13, 2018 ] Court dismisses double murder charges vs Makabayan 4 kodao.org

August 15, 2018

January inflation partially due to TRAIN—IBON

March 2, 2018

No cash transfers to cover January inflation, with prices going even higher in the months and years to come The Department of Finance (DOF) said that January inflation was not caused by the Tax Reform [...]

Gov’t must ensure efficient and accessible transport for all–IBON

March 1, 2018

Policy study baring unsound transport policies released Research group IBON said that the Philippine government’s policies have increasingly opened the transport sector to profit-oriented control, thereby privatizing the transport system and undermining public usage of [...]

Slow TRAIN cash transfers highlight govt’s insensitivity–IBON

March 1, 2018

The poor will get relief about three months into suffering TRAIN-induced price increases with millions of others only getting it much later Research group IBON said that the slow implementation of the Duterte administration’s social [...]

Double taxes on oil show govt’s lack of concern for poor – IBON

March 1, 2018

Slapping additional taxes on oil products makes the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law anti-poor, research group IBON said. Contrary to the argument that the new law is ‘fair’, the group said that [...]

The Shoot-in-the-Vagina Order is a Macho-fascist Lecherous Inanity Without Balls – NUPL Women Lawyers

February 13, 2018

Women members of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), joined by their male colleagues, called the latest tirade of President Duterte addressing his soldiers to shoot female NPA rebels in their vaginas as a “vicious, violent and vile attack against all Filipino women by a macho-fascist President who has no balls to address the root causes of poverty and the fundamental problems of the country.” […]

Rewind to the 2008 rice crisis

August 15, 2018

Read more: Rice tariffication to impoverish Filipino farmers more, Congress warned

CL, Manila prices barely differ

August 13, 2018

The minimum wage in Central Luzon was hiked to Php400 per day, but since there is almost no difference between the prices of goods and services in the region and in Metro Manila, the […]

TRAIN-2: The Sequel Makes Things Worse

August 13, 2018

by Sonny Africa The Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Package 2 (TRAIN-2) recently passed by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives (HOR) increases corporate profits at the expense of Filipinos. […]

CL, Manila prices barely differ

August 11, 2018

The minimum wage in Central Luzon was hiked to Php400 per day, but since there is almost no difference between the prices of goods and services in the region and in Metro Manila, the […]