Rauf Sissay

#HumanRightsDay2025

From Karapatan-Southern Mindanao: Taliwala sa nagpadayong korapsyon ug pagpanglupig sa nasud sa milabayng mga bulan ug katuigan, gipadayag sa mga protesta ug uban pang mga paglihok sa katawhan nga buhi ug lig-on gihapon ang atong pakigbisog para sa demokratikong katungod. 🧵

WORKERS' RIGHTS UPDATE: KMU-Southern Mindanao received reports that three non-uniformed military agents, who refused to provide their names, surveilled the immediate community of labor rights advocate and Transmision-Piston leader-organizer Larry Argilles in Davao City... 🧵

Maui Wowie almost everywhere

ALERT: Suspected non-uniformed military agents surveilled and visited the immediate community of labor rights advocate and Transmision-Piston leader-organizer Larry Argilles in Davao City, 5 December 2025.

Details to follow. #StopTheAttacks

I co-signed this statement. It's high time to abolish the NTF-ELCAC.

Full post: www.facebook.com/share/p/1A4H...

On Int'l Human Rights Day, let's highlight corruption as a human rights issue especially in the Philippines where billions of pesos are spent by the NTFELCAC plus state security forces for their brutal counter-insurgency program that criminalizes dissent and activism.

Tuloy lang tayo sa pangangalampag, pagpoprotesta, pagkilos laban sa korapsyon.

IN PHOTOS: KMU Southern Mindanao joined the broader flank of the STOP Corruption Alliance Davao and @bayanph-smr.bsky.social in lambasting massive corruption under the regime of Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte on Bonifacio Day 2025, Davao City.

#KurakotManagot #MarcosDutertePanagutin

On Bonifacio Day 2025, KMU Southern Mindanao calls on workers to struggle against corruption

BAYAN-Southern Mindanao calls for BBM and Sara Duterte resignations, urges creation of National Transition Council

Tara na, salmot ta sa People's Protest Against Corruption sa dakbayan sa Davao!

📆 Nobyembre 30, 2025
🕐 1:00 PM
📍 Freedom Park (atbang sa Ateneo de Davao University Roxas Gate), Roxas Avenue

#KurakotManagot #StopKorap

Panubagon ug silotan ang tanang kurakot!

Sa Adlaw ni Gat Andres Bonifacio, mulihok ang mga mamumuo ug katawhang kabus aron batukan ang tanang porma sa korapsyon ug suklan ang mga pasistang atake sa kalihukang mamumuo ilalom sa rehimeng Marcos Jr.

ICC appeals chamber rejects Duterte's interim release bid The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court on Friday rejected the appeal of detained former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte for a conditional release.

ICC appeals chamber rejects Duterte's interim release bid

KMU Southern Mindanao, along with other Dabawenyo progressive formations and individuals, staged a Black Friday Protest in Davao City to denounce the systemic corruption under Ferdinand Marcos Jr's regime (21 November 2025). 🧵

Justice still elusive for Leonard Co, the 'People’s Botanist' Fifteen years after the murder of Leonard Co, the country’s foremost plant taxonomist known as the People’s Botanist, family, friends, and conservation advocates gathered at UP Diliman to honor his life and legacy.

Justice still elusive for Leonard Co, the 'People’s Botanist'

China’s Upgraded Lawfare in the South China Sea China is stepping up its legal narratives targeting the Philippines.

China is stepping up its legal narratives targeting the Philippines.

Bayan Muna: Part of DPWH funds should be for safe evacuation centers A woman walks beside tents at an evacuation center as Super Typhoon Uwan (international name: Fung-wong) enters the country on Sunday, November 9, 2025 in Quezon City. — Photo by Associated Press

[F]ormer #BayanMuna Rep. Carlos Zarate said that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration must ensure that part of DPWH’s budget will be used for the implementation of... the Ligtas Pinoy Centers Act

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Pondo ng DPWH ibuhos sa permanent evacuation centers - Bayan Muna Nanawagan si dating Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate sa administrasyong Marcos na ibuhos ang malaking bahagi ng pondo ng Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) sa pagpapagawa ng mga disas...

Nanawagan si dating #BayanMuna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate sa administrasyong Marcos na ibuhos ang malaking bahagi ng pondo ng Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) sa pagpapagawa ng mga disaster-resilient evacuation center.

tnt.abante.com.ph/2025/11/10/p...

Corruption kills. This bears repeating.

The October earthquakes that rocked Central Visayas and Mindanao plus Typhoons Tino and Uwan just proved the Philippine government's ineptitude and corruption even further. The Filipino people should be enraged.

Zohran Mamdani elected as New York mayor in historic win Mamdani will be the first Muslim and South Asian to lead America's largest city after a win over Andrew Cuomo.

Mamdani will be the first Muslim and South Asian to lead America's largest city after a win over Andrew Cuomo.

'Power not a license to kill': Neri Colmenares calls for ICC arrest of Rody Duterte's drug war accomplices Former Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares, a co-counsel for the families of EJK victims, urged the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants against the accomplices of former President Rodrig...

Former #BayanMuna Rep. Neri Colmenares, a co-counsel for the families of EJK victims, urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants against the accomplices of former President Rodrigo Duterte.

politiko.com.ph/2025/10/31/p...

ICC urged: Start Duterte trial now Victims of Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs have called for the former president’s immediate trial on charges of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court.

Victims of Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs have called for the former president’s immediate trial on charges of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

#DutertePanagutin #BayanMuna

www.philstar.com/headlines/20...

LPA outside PAR has high chance of developing into cyclone It may make landfall over the Eastern Visayas-Caraga area on Tuesday, November 4, and cross Visayas and MIMAROPA through Wednesday.

LPA outside PAR has high chance of developing into cyclone

How civil society groups and activists are planning to reclaim civic space in Vietnam In the international community, Vietnam's authoritarian status is relatively unknown compared to other places such as China and North Korea.

I am craving stories about civil society, about resistance, about how local groups find ways to make things better for themselves & others. This is happening all over the world, and this interview from @mongpalatino.bsky.social for @globalvoices.org is a great example & offers plenty to learn from.

Groups decry surveillance of KMU office in Southern Mindanao Furthermore, we have reasons to believe that these incidents are part of the systematic state-sponsored campaign.

IN THE NEWS: KMU-SMR said that these acts posed threats against the freedom of association of workers, including their labor rights advocacies.

www.bulatlat.com/2025/10/29/g...

KMU-SMR office monitored? CTUHR condemns alleged surveillance and intimidation of KMU-SMR's Davao office, citing CCTV footage of unidentified men. The incidents follow reported harassment of organizers like Marvin Dacanay and ...

IN THE NEWS: Labor rights advocates have condemned alleged surveillance and intimidation targeting the KMU–Southern Mindanao office in Davao City

www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/kmu-sm...

Duterte was arrested in the Philippines in March 2025 and turned over to ICC custody shortly thereafter. He remains detained in The Hague while pre-trial proceedings continue on charges of crimes against humanity.

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