Jose Dahildahil Puansing, is a 63 year-old well-known community leader and chairperson of the Paghili-usa sang mga Obrero sa Brgy. Jonobjonob (POBJ, United Workers of Jonobjonob Village). He was arrested while outside his home on October 7, 2024 at 3:50 in the afternoon in Hacienda. Bonco, Brgy. Jonob-Jonob, Escalante City. He was presented with a […]
On October 15, 2018, long-standing labor activists Silva, Atadero and Lusania, together with two (2) companions, Calderon and Legaspi, were arrested in Pagsawitan, Sta, Cruz, Laguna. Silva was arrested by virtue of an arrest warrant in connection with the Inopacan massacre in Leyte Province, the legitimacy of the evidence for which has been questioned by […]
On June 9, 2020, Gaspar Davao, district coordinator and organizer of the National Federation of Sugar Workers – Food and General Trades (NFSW–FGT) in Northern Negros, was arrested by a joint operation of the Cadiz City Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines at a checkpoint at Barangay Caduhaan, Cadiz City. The authorities stopped […]
At around 3:45 in the morning, Mendoza and his daughter woke up and discovered elements of the CIDG trying to open their locked gate. Mendoza went out to talk to the CIDG personnel who informed him that they have a search warrant issued by a Manila judge. They forcibly opened the gate and restrained Mendoza […]
Lagunias is the general secretary of the Alyansa ng Manggagawa sa Engklabo (AMEN, Alliance of Enclave Workers) and a former union secretary of the Lakas ng Manggagawang Nagkakaisa sa Honda Cars (LMNH, Strength of the United Workers of Honda), a union of the Organized Labor Association in Line Industries and Agriculture (OLALIA), a federation of […]
Seven (7) activists, six (6) of whom are labor organizers, were rounded up in simultaneous raids in four different locations in Metro Manila on December 10, 2020. The raids were conducted based on search warrants issued by the notorious Executive Judge Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert. All of them were charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives. […]
On April 19, 2019, Arlegui and Remias were putting up election posters of progressive candidates when they were abducted by police. They were then subjected to interrogation about their supposed links to armed rebels. Their abductors surfaced them after two days, after protests were held calling for their surfacing and release. Arlegui and Remias are […]
Gamara was arrested by the Regional Special Operations Unit of the PNP’s National Capital Region Office, the Philippine Army and the army’s intelligence agents on March 20, 2019 in Imus, Cavite. Arrested with him was a former priest and well-known leader of the anti-dictatorship struggle,, Arturo Joseph Balagat. His arrest was based on a search […]
Dizon is a former director of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and one of the founding leaders of COURAGE. After retiring from public office in 2003, she became an active staff member of COURAGE and a consultant of various people’s organizations and non-government organizations. She led the organizing efforts of the Manila Water and […]
The Rosales couple were both long-time organizers of COURAGE. They were arrested at around 7:00 in the evening in Balagtas, Bulacan on August 11, 2018 as they were going home from their used clothing business in the town’s marketplace. Several vehicles carrying plainclothes policemen blocked their tricycle, arrested them and brought them to the CIDG […]
