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Month: March 2010
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…
When Was the Last Time You Visited Iraq? Exporting American Democracy to the World
by TOM ENGELHARDT TomDispatch.com International Posted by Bulatlat.com Recently, I wrote about a crew of pundits and warrior-journalists eager not to see the U.S. military leave Iraq. That piece appeared on the op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times (and in a longer version at TomDispatch.com) and then began wandering the media world. One of…
Morong 43: In Supplemental Complaint Before CHR, Morong Detainees Reveal Military Attempts to Gain their Cooperation
Press Release March 22, 2010 Disclaimer | What you are reading is either a press release/ statement or a manifesto. These materials do not go through our editorial process and do not reflect our policy or position. The 43 health workers arrested in Morong, Rizal last Feb. 6 who are now detained at the military’s…
Youth Solon Slams Harassment and Persecution of ‘PUP 5’
NEWS RELEASE March 26, 2010 Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond ‘Mong’ Palatino today said that the robbery case filed against five students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) is a clear form of harassment by the PUP administration. Palatino particularly questioned the ‘necessity and fairness’ of filing a criminal offense against students ‘who were…