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Labor Groups Hold Picket, File Wage Hike Petition in Iloilo

By Juliane Judilla Workers’ groups and trade unions led by the United Labor Alliance (ULA) and Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU)–Panay…

Remembering RJ Ledesma: Hundreds Paid Tribute to Slain Negrense Community Journalist

“A skilled journalist and writer, an active human rights defender, and a good friend.” This is how colleagues, friends, and…

Regional environmental forum seek systemic change amid corporate capture, greengrabbing

On Earth Day, April 22, more than 60 Panayanons gathered at WS Lounge Lapaz, Iloilo City to tackle the most…

BAYANIHAN AT WELGANG BAYAN: Nearly 1,000 join two-day “People’s Strike” in Iloilo City

By Juliane Judilla ILOILO CITY — Nearly a thousand jeepney drivers, operators, and commuters joined the two-day People’s Strike on…

Groups Stage Series of Protests vs Transport Policies in Iloilo City

By Juliane Judilla ILOILO CITY —Hundreds of Jeepney drivers and operators from different transport coalitions, alongside commuter and consumer groups,…

[PRESS STATEMENT] Iloilo Consumers Group Holds Picket vs. Oil Price Hikes, Exposes Heavy Tax Burden Per Liter

PRESS STATEMENTMarch 3, 2026 For Immediate ReleaseIloilo Consumers Group Holds Picket vs. Oil Price Hikes, Exposes Heavy Tax Burden Per…

Panay Island synchronizes provincial resistance movements against corruption for #EDSA40

By Tiffany Xu On its second year as a special working holiday, thousands of Panayanons across the 4 provinces of…

Ahead of Feb. 25, Panay Youth Urge Public to ‘Learn from the Streets’

By Juliane Judilla ILOILO CITY — Student councils, campus publications, and various youth organizations from across Panay gathered on February…

POOLED EDITORIAL | When Journalism is Treated as Terrorism*

On February 7, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a community journalist from Leyte, marks her sixth year in detention—an incarceration that rights…

Iloilo planters, millers rise up against crises in sugarcane industry

by Tiffany Xu “All they think about is importation, importation! Where else do you see a country with vast fishing…