IBON Foundation
#BeyondElections2016: Eleksyon, Libro, Lapis at KAPE
April 14, 2016
Tagged ELEKSYON, LIBRO, LAPIS at KAPE, the IBON Bookshop reopens with a sale today, 1pm at #114 Timog Ave with the #BeyondElections2016 theme. IBON features its publications including its flagship Facts & Figures, Birdtalk, Kontra Gahum, Stop the Killings, Permanent People’s Tribunal documents, Kabuhayan Karapatan at Katarungan, Serve the People and other socio-economics and cultural rights […]
Neoliberal Policies Violate the People’s Rights
April 13, 2016
The IBON Bookshop reopens on April 14, 2016, 1pm with the theme #BeyondElections2016. IBON will feature its publications including its flagship Facts & Figures and complete sets, Birdtalk, Kontra Gahum, Stop the Killings, Permanent People’s Tribunal documents, Kabuhayan Karaptan Katarungan, Serve the People and other socio-econ and cultural rights materials, as well its textbook, teachers’ manuals […]
Nationalist Education in a Globalized World
April 13, 2016
The IBON Bookshop reopens on April 14, 2016, 1pm with the theme #BeyondElections2016. Among featured publications will be IBON textbooks, manuals and journals on Philippine, Asian and World geography, history and civics written using the transformative education framework and according to an analytical implementation of K-to-12.
Account for NDRRMF and El Niño funds – Green Action PH
April 8, 2016
As concerned citizens across the country and all over the world join the Global Day of Action for Justice to the victims of Kidapawan massacre today April 8, 2016, the sustainable development alliance Green Action PH asks the Aquino government where is the Php19 billion it promised in December 2015 for El Niño. “The Aquino […]
IBON Bookshop: 50-75% off all titles for UP Faculty
April 8, 2016
Bilang pakikiisa at pakikiramay sa mga titser ng bayan sa UP System na naapektuhan ng pagkasalanta ng UP Faculty Center noong Abril 1, magbibigay ang IBON Bookshop ng 75% off sa lahat ng aming titles na may copyright na 2014 pababa at 50% off sa lahat ng titles na may 2015 copyright mula April 14 […]
Of #BeyondElections2016 and the IBON Bookshop
April 6, 2016
The IBON Bookshop welcomes the public on 14 April 2016, 1pm with the theme #BeyondElections2016. During the election period, IBON takes the opportunity to drumbeat its ‘economics for Filipinos’ advocacy.
Gov’t privatization of irrigation, calamity unpreparedness amid El Nino hit
April 3, 2016
In the aftermath of the State-sponsored violence and continued harassment of protesting drought-stricken farmers in Kidapawan, North Cotabato, research group IBON criticized the Aquino government’s unpreparedness for El Nino and indicative neglect of agriculture in general, said the group. Department of Agriculture (DA) data shows that the damage caused by El Nino has already reached […]
Bracing for El Nino
April 2, 2016
We are reposting this article in the wake of the massacre of 3 farmers in Kidapawan who were among those who collectively sought rice support from government amid the El Nino drought. By Arnold Padilla IBON Features—El Niño is not expected to occur until late June or July, with its impact likely to be felt by […]
Day of the Landless: Deepening foreign control over PH farmlands thru financialization
March 31, 2016
Peasant and indigenous people’s groups in the region mark 29 March as the Global Day of the Landless. Initiated by the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), it highlights the rural communities’ continuing struggle for land. In the Philippines, such struggle remains meaningful amid widespread landlessness still gripping its countryside. Decades of attempts at land reform have […]
