Philippines: PUP students, community condemn P40.2 M budget slash

Walk out of classes, march to Mendiola
Students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), together with the other sectors of the PUP community, today launched a massive class walkout to condemn the P40.2 million slash in the state university’s budget.
The PUP Office of the Student Regent, Sentral na Konseho ng Mag-aaral and Sandigan [...]

Japanese students express solidarity with Filipinos against human rights violations

On September 21, Japanese students belonging to AASJA, the national student organization against imperialism, led with members of Migrante-Japan and other peace-loving individuals a protest rally in Osaka, Japan to commemorate the 35th year of the Martial Law declaration in the Philippines as well as denounce the continuous suppression and violation of human rights there.
On [...]

Filipino students to senate: Regulate tuition, Probe higher educ head

The National Union of Students of the Philippines, a national alliance of student unions, councils and governments in the country and a member of the Asian Students Association, has demanded government authorities to look into the government policies and circulars that have caused the unabated increase in tuition and school fees in universities and colleges.
Together [...]

Stop military harassment, intimidation and vilification of student and youth organizations

Students and youth organizations in the Philippines, some of whom are members of the ASA, have called for an urgent action appeal against they have experienced harassment, intimidation and vilification from the Philippine military.
Early this year, the Armed Forces of the Philippines has started deploying platoons of military personnel all over Metro Manila, the major [...]

Surface Jonas Burgos

Below is a video made by a multi-media group Southern Tagalog Exposure on Jonas Burgos, a Filipino activist who was abducted by suspected elements of the Philippine military inside a department store on April 28, 2007.
Burgos is one of the many victims of enforced disappearances under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s regime. Many of these enforced disappearances [...]

Petition: Ensure the Survival of a Sustainable Farming Community in Central Mindanao

400 hectares of farm lands. 800 rice farming families.
They are the target possible casualties if the Central Mindanao University administration decides to lease out the said lands to big agri-businesses to produce cash crops.
On previous occasions, the administration has responded violently to protesting farmers and their supporters by dispersing mass actions and forcing the farmers [...]

The 51 Smuggled Filipinos in Iraq: A U.S. Senate Hearing

A few days ago, media outfits exposed the “smuggling” of 51 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Iraq to work on the US$600 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. From the news, the OFWs knew that they would be flying to Dubai to either work as telephone repairman or construction worker somewhere else.
Below is a testimony of [...]