NEWS RELEASE March 27, 2010 Representative Raymond ‘Mong’ Palatino today congratulated the new bar-passers and urged them to take a stand on the SC decision allowing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to appoint the next Supreme Court Chief Justice. He said that the newest set of bar passers should not allow their profession to be tainted…
Day: March 27, 2010
Military’s False Claims of Child Combatant in North Cotabato and Compostela Valley Endangers Rural Children
NEWS RELEASE 27 March 2010 A nationwide child rights advocacy group lambasted the military’s false claims in news reports that the 15 year old boy they arrested in Makilala, North Cotabato was allegedly aiding the New People’s Army detonate a bomb in Brgy. Old Balatukan, and another girl arrested by the 25th in Moncayo, Compostela…
Disqualify Fake Partylists Misrepresenting Women – Gabriela
News Release 27 March 2010 The militant women’s group GABRIELA expressed disgust over the proliferation of fake party lists in this coming May elections. “It is bad enough that the interests of the Filipino masses have long been ignored by a government historically dominated by the ruling class. Now, fake party lists con marginalized sectors…
Video: In Isla Puting Bato, Hope Springs Amid Despair
Hope Springs on Isla Puting Bato
A Fulfilled Promise: Lumads Graduate from School Harassed by Military
By MARIFE MAGBANUA
Wearing Manobo-designed vestments adorned with colorful bead necklaces and earrings, 24 graduating indigenous youth proudly marched during the third graduation ceremonies of Alcadev. Tears of joy filled the morning of March 10, 2010, as students, parents, teachers and other guests celebrated the end of another school year full of achievements and challenges.
Salungguhit: They Are Off!
They Are Off!
Thirteen Monkayo Farmers Tortured, Detained
By GRACE S. UDDIN Davao Today Posted By Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY — Thirteen farmers filed human rights complaints against the 25th Infantry Battalion for illegal detention and torture. They included Alfonso Mangubat and wife Baden; Anastacia Villaniso and her sons Emilio, Boicy and Roy and 15-year old grandchildren Mary Grace Minor and Christina Aranceo-Minor; Edmund…
Fears of a First Time Voter in May’s Automated Elections
By DAISY C. GONZALES Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY — When farmer Rufina Parojinog, 71, casts her vote on May 10, she would encounter new election gadgets which the poll body, the Commission on Elections, assures us to be easy to use. With her failing eyesight, she said, she might not be able…
Davao Lawyers Oppose Midnight Appointment of Chief Justice
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY – Davao lawyers are restive over the issue of the President’s impending appointment of a new Chief Justice, following a Supreme Court ruling that allows her to do this despite a ban on this action in the Philippine Constitution. Eight lawyers’ groups, namely: the…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Collision Course
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise/Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the most mistrusted president that Filipinos have had to bear with for the last nine years, is set to reap the whirlwind. Facing the end of her disputed term of office and just retribution for all sorts of malfeasance and crimes against the people,…
Counterfactual: Marc Thiessen, The Torture Apologist A Curious History of the C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program
By JANE MAYER CommonDreams.org/The New Yorker International Posted by Bulatlat.com On September 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of Al Qaeda’s attacks on America, another devastating terrorist plot was meant to unfold. Radical Islamists had set in motion a conspiracy to hijack seven passenger planes departing from Heathrow Airport, in London, and blow them up in…