New Yorkers—including mayoral candidate Christine Quinn—planned a rally Monday to protest the shooting death of a gay man in the neighborhood that was the cradle of the modern US gay rights movement.
The protesters included one mayoral candidate who lost by just 602 votes, another who didn’t win in a single polling precinct, and a congressional bet who trailed the proclaimed winner by over 10,000 votes.
Women on Japan’s island chain of Okinawa on Wednesday demanded an apology from an outspoken Japanese politician who suggested US troops there make use of its thriving sex industry.
Authorities blocked a road near the United States Embassy in Manila where hundreds of Labor Day protesters marched in a bid to air their grievances against American “imperialism.”
Lito Bais and Florida Sibayan, both 56, said they don’t find themselves too old to be marching on the street under the searing heat to demand land from the Aquino administration.
Labor leaders and Manila police officials discussed the issues of traffic, infiltration and peace and order during a dialogue Friday on their preparations for a Labor Day rally next Wednesday when more than 50,000 workers and militants are expected to converge near Malacañang to demand the prioritization of workers’ issues on the national agenda.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday to demand the abdication of Spain’s scandal-hit monarchy.
ILOILO CITY—Leaders of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) in Western Visayas are calling for a stop to the planned repair of the abandoned Iloilo Hall of Justice for safety reasons. In a resolution passed on March 16 at a meeting in Roxas City, the regional governor and presidents of IBP chapters in [...]
Students of the UP Manila on Monday covered the Oblation statue with black cloth as they protested the school’s “no late payment” tuition policy and the death of Kristel Tejada.
She survived when a typhoon hit this town in December last year. But three months after Typhoon “Pablo” ravaged this town, Cristina Jose, 40, mother of three, wife to husband Danilo, and a village councilor in the remote village of Binondo, did not survive the bullet that pierced her body and exited her breast.
Women workers marked the eve of the International Women’s Day Thursday with a protest action in Manila to raise their economic and labor demands.
A three-day protest “occupation” outside the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) regional office in Davao City might have ended on a reconciliatory note on Wednesday night, but Secretary Corazon Soliman is haling the agitators and looters to court.
A tribe leader in northern Quezon expressed fears the Aquino administration would allow the construction of dams in Sierra Madre in the wake of the death of Agta tribal chieftain Nap Buendicho, who had led protests against the Laiban Dam in Rizal province.
