Features
Anti-terror law worsens economic policymaking for a few at the expense of the many
June 8, 2020
STATEMENT | The Duterte administration wants an anti-terrorism law giving it unchecked power to surveil, harass, arrest and detain government critics under the pretext of fighting terrorism. It has been on a trajectory of violating human rights, due process, rule of law, and accountability since the start of its term. With the new law, the government will achieve authoritarianism unmatched since Martial Law in the 1970s.
Statement on government’s COVID-19 stimulus measures
May 30, 2020
STATEMENT
Fiscal decisions are critical especially in times of crisis – when the need is greatest for the State to commit to its obligation to respect, protect and fulfill the social and economic rights of the people.
Upon COVID-19: Time to tax the super-rich
May 25, 2020
FEATURES
The Philippines has never had a wealth tax. For as long as there has been a tax system in the country, taxes have been collected from what people pay for what they consume or from what they earn.
Why make the poor pay for COVID-19 response?
May 24, 2020
COMMENTARY
There’s more than enough money for all the COVID-19 response we need – the Duterte administration just has to take the side of the people and stop being so scared of the rich.
Financial strength, development weakness
May 14, 2020
COMMENTARY
In this kind of situation, you don’t obsess about fuel-efficient driving or not red-lining the tachometer or limiting the car’s mileage – you step on the gas. Glorifying ‘financial strength’ is stepping on the brakes.
Why can’t food self-sufficiency be our new normal?
May 8, 2020
FEATURES
From the outset of the Duterte government’s military lockdown as its response to the spread of the coronavirus, it has directed the continuous flow of food commodities, along with medicines and other essentials. Food is inarguably essential to people’s survival during a pandemic and in its socioeconomic aftermath.
ABS-CBN shutdown a threat to press freedom, a bane to transformative education
May 8, 2020
NETWORKS | EDUCATORS’ FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT
We are in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic to which our government can only muster a militaristic response instead of strengthening our health system and relay incoherent reports, and at times, disinformation.
The fate of BBB in the time of COVID-19
May 7, 2020
FEATURES
The Philippines has to improve the current state of infrastructure especially in the context of COVID-19: one that supports a strong public health system and the stable production of the nation’s needs in order to withstand and battle a pandemic.
IBON decries shutdown of ABS-CBN
May 6, 2020
STATEMENT | The pandemic is a real problem, but so is the Duterte administration’s using this for its own authoritarian ends.
