By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star With perseverance and assertiveness, political prisoners in various detention centers begin today a week-long fasting-hunger strike, culminating on December 10, International Human Rights Day. Their demand: Free all political prisoners! Joining the coordinated protest action are prisoners held at the National Penitentiary and those…
Day: December 9, 2011
Battle for justice
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Forces in the Philippine political landscape are gearing up for a major legal and political battle. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her husband’s attempts to leave the country and escape the proverbial long arm of the law, ironically by utilizing a favorable Supreme Court order, were foiled by Justice…
Forgetting and not knowing
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld In an attempt to validate his earlier claim that the country is under threat from “creeping martial law” during the Aquino III administration, Senator Joker Arroyo said last Tuesday that the Marcos martial law regime used the exact same argument — that the police powers of the…
Sinking to abysmal depths
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The widening rift between the executive, led by President Benigno Aquino III, and the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Renato Corona, has been hogging the headlines of all the major media networks. The first salvo was fired by President Aquino during a forum sponsored by the Makati Business Club last…
A political prisoners’ life and struggles inside prison
By RONALYN V. OLEA
While weak from the effects of the hunger strike, political prisoner Ericson Acosta relates how he adjusted to life in prison, the difficulties being faced by his co-inmates who come from families of peasants and workers, and the struggles of political prisoners under an administration that remains deaf , mute, and blind to their situation.
Sidebar: Heavily-armed soldiers guard jail of political prisoner
Heavily-armed soldiers guard jail of political prisoner
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com CALBAYOG CITY, Western Samar — A dozen of fully armed soldiers in camouflage uniforms escorted political prisoner Ericson Acosta from the Calbayog Sub-Provincial Jail to the Hall of Justice, Dec. 8. Acosta attended this afternoon’s hearing at the Regional Trial Court Branch 41 in Gandara, Samar. Along the way, jail…
Another Filipino executed in China, OFW group calls for ‘Zero Remittance Day’ on Dec. 18
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“No Filipino goes out of the country with a death wish. Our 12 million overseas Filipino workers were compelled to leave the country to seek so-called greener pastures abroad in the absence of jobs, livelihood and decent living conditions in the Philippines.” – Garry Martinez, Migrante International
Bloody black and white
Ni Sonny Mallari Bulatlat.com It was no ordinary image in black and white… Of desecrated body and trampled soul, Of flesh mangled into pieces by modern-day beasts. Of empty head carved into a gory dungeon, Of nightmares and broken dreams. A revolting colorless image of curse and rage… Of naked savagery and screaming brutality, Of…