Gunshot wounds and blood are unable to conceal the text on the red shirt worn by labor rights leader Dandy Miguel the night he was killed: 'Sahod, trabaho, karapatan, ipaglaban' (Fight for salary, jobs, and rights).
Pro-democracy groups across the Philippine political spectrum joined forces and aimed to field a single opposition standard-bearer to challenge President Rodrigo Duterte’s anointed one in the 2022 presidential elections.
If ordinary people can overcome powerful companies to protect their water in a poor country like El Salvador, imagine what their counterparts can do here.
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"The government's increasingly brutal counter-insurgency campaign... no longer makes any distinction between armed rebels and non-combatant activists, labor leaders, and rights defenders."
The Philippines has long relied on the remittances of its more than 2 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), without concerning itself with their reintegration. Now
COVID-19 has exposed the deep-seated cracks in its labor export-based economy.
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