By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com LOPEZ, Quezon – Determined to bring food, medicines and other relief goods to the impoverished and highly militarized communities in South Quezon, the Save Bondoc Peninsula Movement overcame one hurdle after another. The more than 300 delegation of the Save Bondoc Peninsula Movement’s mercy mission and peace caravan went to…
Month: July 2012
Counterinsurgency rears ugly head in South Quezon
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Oplan Bayanihan’s two-faced character is clearly shown in Bondoc Peninsula. Benign on one side, but terroristic on the other. – Karapatan
Nothing to celebrate, no real friendship in master-puppet relations, critics say
By MARYA SALAMAT
The partnership between US warship builder and developer AMSEC Huntington Ingalls Industries and Hanjin Heavy Industries practically transforms the Hanjin shipyard in Subic Bay into a US military base. – Gabriela Rep Luzviminda Ilagan
Sidebar: Groups disprove Aquino’s selling points in allowing greater US military presence
Former Pantranco workers cry foul over government move to halt settlement
The sale of Pantranco’s franchise could have made it possible for the former workers of Pantranco to receive their claims, but Transportation Sec. Mar Roxas stopped the sale. By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – More than two decades after Pantranco, a Philippine government-owned bus company, shut down operations and locked out its employees, the government…
Military harasses grieving families of slain NPA rebels
By INA ALLCO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — In the midst of their extreme grief, families of slain members of the New People’s Army and residents of Brgy. Camflora in San Andres, Quezon in Southern Tagalog are demanding that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) respect their rights to give their slain loved ones…
Dutch environmentalist killed in Pampanga
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
“The military forces in the area should be immediately investigated as there are several complaints and records of their involvement in human rights violations against anti-mining activists like Geertman.” – Kalikasan-PNE
Groups to military: ‘Stop terrorizing civilians in Quezon’
Video: Groups to military: ‘Stop terrorizing civilians in Quezon’
Perception Economics: Two years of the Aquino administration
By SONNY AFRICA
The administration is hard-pressed to provide similar glowing accounts of sustainable development on the ground because there are still no such gains to speak of.