for Stephanie Nicole Ella By MARK ANGELES A pale moth would have alighted on the crown of your head instead of an eyeless bullet. One smokey night of windless, unrestrained detonation, someone’s gun whispered and spat the slug to the air, into the cables of your brain. That slug, still full metal jacket, beheld the…
Year: 2013
Aquino administration’s human rights policy: Big in words, too little in action
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Early on, President Benigno Aquino III vowed to put an end to the killings and bring perpetrators to justice. Aquino signed in November Administrative Order No. 35, creating a nine-member “Inter-agency committee on Extra-Legal Killings, Enforced Disappearances, Torture and Other Grave Violations of the Right to Life, Liberty…
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Duyog Tabang: Relief mission for victims of typhoon Pablo in Surigao del Sur
In this video, members of progressive organizations provide relief goods and medicines to Lumad communities in Surigao del Sur affected by typhoon Pablo.
Slideshow: Groups hold relief mission for victims of typhoon Pablo in Surigao del Sur
Progressive organizations led by Katribu party list initiated relief operations in far-flung villages in Surigao del Sur hardly hit by supertyphoon Pablo. The groups maintain that the impacts of climate change have been aggravated by the government’s mining policy. Text and photos by POM CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA