Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro on Saturday, Feb. 4, warned against the planned expansion of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), and called on Filipinos to guard the country’s freedom and sovereignty against foreign excursions. ACT Teachers...
Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel is asking the Marcos administration to declare a mental health emergency in the country as a way to address the unprecedented number of suicides and attempted suicides among Filipino youth the past year. (Unsplash) In a statement Thursday, Feb. 2, Kabataan...
If the Philippine government “has nothing to hide", then President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. should let the International Criminal Court (ICC) continue its investigation into the previous Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs, Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas said. Permanent...
The Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives urged the public to “resoundingly reject” moves to change the Constitution as it lambasted the Marcos administration and its allies for attempts to amend key provisions set to safeguard the country’s democracy. (From left) Kabataan Party-list...
A fisherfolk group called on the national government to certify House Bill 1112 or the National Farmers’ Day bill as urgent. The bill, which was filed by the Makabayan bloc, seeks to declare Jan. 22 of every year as a special working holiday to honor and remember the 13 farmers killed in...
Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro on Thursday, Jan. 19, denounced the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for conducting “red-tagging orientations” in schools because these “condition the minds of the youth” into thinking...
A "Magna Carta of Air Passengers' Rights" is being sought by the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives on the heels of the disastrous Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) New Year's day crisis. The scene at NAIA on Jan. 2, 2023, a day after the critical system glitch (Noel Pabalate/...
The Makabayan bloc in Congress on Monday, January 9 expressed hope that the perjury charges filed against 10 human rights defenders would be dismissed. In a statement, the group reiterated their belief that the filing of perjury cases against the human rights defenders is a clear act of retaliation...
Makabayan member ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro thinks she knows that reason behind the alleged "squabblings" within the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Screenshot from Facebook live) In a statement Sunday, Jan. 8, Castro expressed...
Militant congressmen are calling on the Committee on Agriculture and Food to conduct an inquiry, in aid of legislation, on what they described as the "potential overpricing and price manipulation of onions in the market". (Unsplash) Makabayan bloc members ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro,...
A member Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives smells something "fishy" with the technical glitch that paralyzed the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on Sunday, Jan. 1. ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro noted in a statement Monday, Jan. 2 that the glitchwhich...
A Makabayan bloc member in the House of Representatives is prodding President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to reopen peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro made this call a...
