Prof. Lennox Hinds, who sat in the Presidium of Judges of an International People’s Tribunal that indicted President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for human rights violations, hardly looks like a lawyer and didn’t originally intend to be one. He decided to become a lawyer amid the advent of the civil rights movement in the U.S. in the…
Month: August 2005
Ex-U.S. Attorney General, Police Chief, Author and SC Justice Endorse People’s Tribunal
A former U.S. Attorney General, a former police chief of Portland, Oregon, a noted linguist and foreign policy scholar and a former justice of India’s Supreme Court are among the more than 100 personalities and institutions that endorsed the International People’s Tribunal which indicted President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for human rights violations committed under her watch.…
Youth Groups March for Arroyo’s Removal
Youth groups believe the Macapagal-Arroyo government guilty of stealing the youth and nation’s bright future. They held protest marches and warned they will not hesitate to storm Congress should pro-administration lawmakers succeed in crushing the impeachment. By Carl Marc Ramota Bulatlat.com With the theme “Ipaglaban ang Kinabukasan ng Kabataan at Bayan (Fight for the Youth…
Fruitless and Turtle-Paced
Nobody expected the impeachment complaint to go smoothly. But nobody thought it would be mired in so many issues this early as the first week of impeachment proceedings went nowhere. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Public attention focused on House Committee on Justice (CoJ) chair, Rep.. Simeon Datumanong, after he abruptly suspended the first impeachment…
Foreign Gov’ts Urged to Withdraw Support for Arroyo
Foreign delegates to the International People’s Tribunal (IPT) that convened Aug. 19 in Quezon City have urged the international community to support the Filipino people’s move to force the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. They also asked foreign governments to withdraw their support or recognition for the President who has lost all power and authority…
People of the Philippines vs Arroyo
Although symbolic and perhaps without any authority to enforce its verdict, the International People’s Tribunal has sent a powerful message to Macapagal-Arroyo and other perpetrators of human rights violations: You cannot forever silence truth and justice because the people’s justice will come after you in the final reckoning. By Bobby Tuazon Bulatlat.com Watching from the…
Scrutinizing Raul S. Roco, 63
As a politician, Raul S. Roco, 63, has had his share of controversies in the past as he supported anti-people measures like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Revised Basic Education Curriculum (RBEC). But at his wake in Naga City (449 kilometers from Manila) in the Bicol region, he was hailed…
Cordillera Rights Watch Demands Soldiers’ Pullout from Strike-Bound Lepanto
As support for the striking workers at the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) continues to pour in, soldiers have decided to increase their presence in the area but using as an excuse the sightings of New People’s Army rebels in nearby areas where the strike was being held. BY ABI T. BENGWAYAN Northern Dispatch Posted…
New ‘Illegal’ OWWA Funds Transfer Bared
In the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo received flak from several overseas workers’ groups for the transfer of the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Medicare Fund from the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) to the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). It turns out now that this was not the only disbursement of…
The Falsehood Commission
Mrs. Arroyo’s Truth Commission is likely to turn into a total war against truth, first because the very government accused of wrong-doing will in effect investigate itself; second because it is likely to be used to exonerate its creator; and third because it will be used to persecute Mrs. Arroyo’s accusers. Truth can only be…
White Ribbons for Change
In the call for the resignation or removal of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo white is the color of the day for a new alliance of anti-Arroyo personalities and groups from the so-called middle forces. The White Ribbon Movement (WRM), the middle-force alliance has stood that Arroyo must step down from the presidency by, among others, the…