Video: Young boy sings for Hacienda Luisita farmers
Day: November 18, 2011
Under Aquino, no justice for victims of Hacienda Luisita massacre
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“The Cojuangco-Aquinos used and abused all legal means to their advantage and interest of further controlling the lands.” – Rep. Rafael Mariano of Anakpawis
Luisita workers reap seeds of decades-old struggle
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We occupied the land because it belongs to us. We used the idle land for the benefit of our children,”
The Police May Have Seized The Park But The Movement Moves On
By DANNY SCHECHTER Commondreams.org It was strange, after all these weeks, to be on the outside looking in at a new set of occupiers that were there because they have the guns and we don’t. When Mao said that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” he most assuredly did not have anything…
My personal clash with DoJ on watchlist
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Like many others, I welcomed Justice Secretary Leila de Lima’s action on Gloria M. Arroyo’s request to be allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment, and appreciated her reasons for denying it. But I feel uneasy with the source of her authority to decide…
The massacre watch
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld When the Ampatuan Town Massacre of Nov. 23, 2009, occurred and its brutal details were known, it provoked attempts at self-examination among many media advocacy and journalists’ groups, and even in some of the newspapers and broadcast networks that for years had been ignoring the killing of…
Flight from justice
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The overriding and unstated premise in the controversy over the “constitutional crisis” provoked by the Supreme Court order allowing former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former First Gentleman Miguel Arroyo to travel abroad and the Justice Secretary’s insistence on barring them from leaving on the basis of a departmental “watch…
Lacking a sense of urgency or the decisiveness to address impunity?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com For all his fiery inaugural address, President Benigno Aquino III seems to have chosen the path of indecisiveness especially on important issues such as justice, expanding democracy, human rights, and even his banner issue corruption. “Sa mga nang-api sa akin, kaya ko kayong patawarin at pinapatawad ko na kayo. Sa mga…
Urban poor occupy NHA to put a stop to demolitions
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The struggle against the government urban poor housing program continues. With their homes demolished, urban poor dwellers and their supporters went to “occupy” the National Housing Authorities’s office in Quezon City. “You demolished our homes. We will occupy your office,” one of the placards in front of…
Slow process of investigation in Fr. Tentorio killing lamented
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The lawyer handling the case of the killing of Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio is dismayed over what he said was the slow process the Department of Justice (DOJ) was employing in handling the case of the slain activist-priest. Noel Neri of the Pro-Labor Labor Center joined leaders…
Hillary Clinton visit paves way for more US-RP partnership and the US-TransPacific agenda
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Amid jeers that his government is engaged in “hardcore US puppetry,” President Benigno Aquino III sat at an extended bilateral meeting in Manila held by visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last Wednesday, after which he witnessed the signing in Malacañang of the Partnership for Growth (PFG) agreement…