“It is amazing how, an injustice, whether this be an extrajudicial killing, an enforced disappearance or torture, gives birth to people who would have otherwise lived a different life, but had now taken up the cudgels for the killed, the disappeared and the tortured.” – Edita Burgos, mother of missing activist Jonas Burgos
Day: September 19, 2014
A prelude to abolition? | DBM allots only P6,000 for NPO employees’ wages for 2015
“They really want to abolish the NPO because of the kickbacks they would get when working with private companies.” — Teresita Crisostomo, employee, National Printing Office
#MarioPH | Images from netizens: Metro Manila now a water world
Citizens have captured images of the flooding caused by Tropical storm #MarioPH (Fung-Wong) in different parts of the National Capital Region.
On the 23rd year of the US bases rejection | Activists protest Edca
In 1991, September 16 became a shining moment of nationalism in Philippine history when the Senate stood up against the US by junking the proposed treaty that allows an extended stay of its military bases. In its 23rd year yesterday, environmental and women activists protested at the US embassy in Manila this time…
‘Edca should have been a treaty’ – Ex-senator Ramos-Shahani
SPECIAL REPORT: A Sept.16 forum on the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement looked back on the historic 1991 Senate decision on the removal of the US military bases in the country, and at the tasks ahead as their return looms.
Indigenous peoples, environmentalists call for end to OceanaGold’s ‘mining plunder’
“OceanaGold’s operations should immediately be stopped by DENR to prevent further pollution, and should immediately hold these environmental criminals accountable.” – Clemente Bautista, national coordinator of Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE)