By SARAH RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com (after a tv interview featuring the widow of Hacienda Luisita martyr Ric Ramos) “they should have not let his brain spattered on the floor like that; or his eyes dismembered from his face it’s the kids, it’s too painful for them to have seen him so horribly lifeless or worse, remember…
Day: November 16, 2009
How Hacienda Luisita Stock Scheme Led to Farmers’ Misery
By XANDRA BISENIO
Through the stock distribution option such as the one in Hacienda Luisita, the essence of land reform has been distorted to benefit landowners, denying the farmers of actual land redistribution.
Fact-Finding Report Says Luisita Massacre Result of ‘Direct Armed Assault’ by Police, Military
Summary of relevant information and analysis of what happened on the days leading up to and the day itself of the Hacienda Lusita massacre on November 16, 2004 Prepared by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) from a Fact-Finding Mission it led in Nov. 2004. 1. The United Luisita Workers’ Union (ULWU) started the strike at…
CHR on Ang Ladlad’s Disqualification: Homosexuality Does Not Equate to Immorality
On November 11, 2009, the Comelec Second Division promulgated its decision denying the petition for registration of the ANG LADLAD LGBT Party for the Party List System of Representation in the House of Representatives. The decision denied the petition on moral grounds, stating: “Petitioner [Ladlad] defines the Filipino Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community,…