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Free Esteban Mendoza!

December 9, 2024

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 […]

Free Arnedo Lagunias!

December 9, 2024

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 […]

Free Human Rights Day 4!

December 9, 2024

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. […]

Free Angat 2!

December 9, 2024

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 […]

Free Renante Gamara!

December 9, 2024

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 […]

Free Antonietta Dizon!

December 9, 2024

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  […]

Free Rowena & Oliver Rosales!

December 9, 2024

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 […]

Free Bob Reyes!

December 9, 2024

Reyes is a former organizer of government employees’ union center Confederation for Unity, Recognition, and Advancement of Government  Employees (COURAGE). At the time of his arrest, he was convenor of Defend Job Philippines and a  leader of the Sandigan ng Manggagawa sa Quezon City (Association of Workers in Quezon City), organizing workers in their struggle […]

Mensahe ng Pakikiisa sa Daluyong

May 26, 2024

Ang Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), isang non-government organization na sumusuporta sa mga manggagawa sa pormal at di-pormal na sektor ng ekonomiya para isabuhay ang kanilang mga karapatang pangmanggagawa at pantao, ay mahigpit na nakikiisa sa ating lahat na narito ngayon at sa ating mga kapanalig. Makabuluhan ang layunin ng ating pagtitipon […]