BY KIM QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com Residents of San Carlos Heights, Irisan, Baguio City have prevented the Holy Family Housing Project Association, Inc. from holding a dialogue regarding a joint relocation survey with 12 affected residents on March 30, asserting that the said realty firm’s claim over a portion of Purok 22 is…
Day: April 8, 2006
Interfaith Pilgrimage Holds Rites to Oppose Mining in Siocon
BY TYRONE VELEZ Bulatlat.com For two years, Timuay (tribal chief) Jose Anoy has not been able to set foot at his home. Home is Mt. Canatuan, the most sacred place for the 2,000 Subanen people, which has been occupied and encroached upon by the Canadian mining firm Toronto Ventures, Inc (TVI) since 1994. But despair…
Pimentel Urges Release of ‘Sagada 11’
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com The 11 punks accused of being members of the clandestine New People’s Army (NPA) and raiding a military detachment in Cabiten, Mankayan, Benguet have found an ally in Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr., who has urged law enforcement authorities to investigate their arrest and detention.…
Negros Media Demands Broadcaster’s Delisting from AFP Order of Battle
BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat.com Various media organizations in Bacolod City have condemned the inclusion of Julius Mariveles, news director of DYEZ Aksyon Radyo-Bacolod in the list of top communist and New People’s Army leaders allegedly drawn up by the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Central Command (AFP Cencom). BACOLOD City – Various media organizations…
Hysteria, Healing and the Correctness of Armed Struggle
BY DEE AYROSO Bulatlat.com Eighteen years ago, Lila and her brother Arman were among the thousands of Communist Party members wrongly accused of being government “deep penetration agents” in a hysteria in the underground movement. Now 42, Lila speaks about the pain of being a victim of the anti-infiltration hysteria, and about her misadventures as…