By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com Among the films presented at the 2nd Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival last August 12, 2010, two films on military aggression stood out. Both have taken the theme into directions intriguing and unexpected. Instead of focusing on adults, both films have chosen to anchor their stories on…
Day: August 18, 2010
Angelina Jolie Saves ‘Salt’
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com No stranger to action movies, Jolie once again takes up the role of a mysterious gun-toting vixen in Salt (directed by Phillip Noyce). This time, she plays CIA agent Evelyn Salt. Suspected to be a mole planted by Russian intelligence, she makes a run for it, leaving two of her contemporaries…
Social Justice for the Hacienda Luisita Workers
The peasants and farmworkers of Hacienda Luisita Inc (HLI) deservessocial justice and not deceitful schemes. They have to justlybenefit from the land they have been tilling for so long . Their human rights and fundamental rights have to be respected. Any offering or attempt to subdue their resistance against inhumane treatment is an affront against…
On today’s oral arguments in high court about Luisita dispute “In the end, it’s an issue of social justice’ – says human rights law group
NEWS RELEASE August 18, 2010 Lawyer Edre U. Olalia, acting secretary general of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), said that the high court has the opportunity now to possibly settle the decades long land dispute between the Hacienda Luisita management and its farm workers. “This land dispute has to be viewed according to…
Reform group to SC: Uphold the law and farmers’ right to land
News Release 18 August 2010 “Do not be the reason for social justice to be delayed yet again,” reform advocacy group Pagbabago! People’s Movement for Change urged the Supreme Court during the oral arguments on the legality of the stock distribution option (SDO) being implemented as a “land reform” scheme in Hacienda Luisita today. “We…
Reform group to Aquino: Break cycle of abuse and injustice in HLI, recognize farmers’ right to land
News Release 17 August 2010 “The current situation in Hacienda Luisita offers Noynoy an opportunity to break the cycle of abuse the farm workers have been experiencing for more than half a century and correct the historical injustice his family has committed against them. He should not let this chance go to waste.” This was…
News in Pictures: Farmers, Supporters Attend Solidarity Mass on Eve of SC Oral Arguments on Luisita Land Case
A solidarity mass for the farm workers of Hacienda Luisita, officiated by Auxiliary Bishop of Manila Bp. Teodoro Bacani, was held in Sto. Domingo Church, Quezon City, on Tuesday — a day before the Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on the petition for certiorari filed by the Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) management against the 2005 resolution of the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC) and Department of Agrarian Reform revoking the SDO and ordering the distribution of land to the farm workers.
All Eyes Today on SC as Farm Workers, Cojuangco-Aquinos Battle Over Luisita
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Lawmaker says Supreme Court itself will be on trial. “The Hacienda Luisita land dispute is the first acid test of the Supreme Court under the Aquino administration. The Cojuangco-Aquinos have put the Supreme Court on trial here,” says Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano.
News in Pictures: ABS-CBN Axes 37 More Workers
The ABS-CBN IJM Workers Union and other dismissed workers held a silent protest in front of the network compound on Friday to denounce the illegal dismissals, contractualization and union-busting at ABS-CBN.