Gawin na lang nila ang gusto nilang gawin sa akin tulad ng kanilang ginawa sa aking mga magulang. Hinding-hindi ako titigil sa paghahanap ng hustisya para sa aking pamilya at buong sambayanan.” – Arman Albarillo (1978 – 2012), human rights victim; New People’s Army fighter By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World I write this…
Day: July 6, 2012
Arman Albarillo in the eyes of his Katherine
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“He lived the way he wanted to live – doing good for the poor, defending them”.
Impunity and “democracy”
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com I would have written about President Aquino’s request to the US to fly its spy drones around Scarborough shoal and its impact on Philippine sovereignty when the killing of Willem Geertman happened. Geertman was a 67-year old advocate of peasant land rights, indigenous people’s rights, and environmental defense and protection. He…
Corporate profits at all-time high; wages at all-time low: can we call it class war yet?
The middle class is being hollowed out; increasingly, there are the super-super-rich, and there are the rest of us.
Peace talks hampered as detained NDFP consultant forcibly transfered
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Political detainee and NDFP consultant Alan Jazmines was transferred in the wee hours of the morning and was not allowed to call his lawyer.
How to stop sex scandal, women activists suggest ways
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Posted by Bulatlat.com
Gabriela hopes to “mobilize the public to use the internet in solving one of the scourges of electronic harassment, bullying and violence against women.”
Mad, bad, sad: What’s really happened to America’s soldiers
By NAN LEVINSON, TomDispatch | News Analysis Truthout “PTSD is going to color everything you write,” came the warning from a stepmother of a Marine, a woman who keeps track of such things. That was in 2005, when post-traumatic stress disorder, a.k.a. PTSD, wasn’t getting much attention, but soon it was pretty much all anyone…
Fact-finding mission finds Geertman killing politically-motivated
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Witnesses said the killers forced Willem Geertman to his knees and shouted invectives at him before pulling the trigger.
Campaign against privatization of public hospitals intensifies
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño urges his fellow lawmakers to withdraw support from privatization of public hospitals.
Watering down the Milk Code
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today DAVAO CITY — The phrase “breast milk is still best for babies” has become a byword in commercials and labels on infant formula milk thanks to the Milk Code which mandates this marking on the packaging of formula milk. The Milk Code, known as Executive Order 51, is now…