By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Tomorrow it will have been 42 years since Ferdinand E. Marcos declared martial law and began a 14-year fascist dictatorship. Once again, personal experiences will be told or retold by those who endured the horrors and brutalities of military arrest, torture, detention and other…
Day: September 20, 2014
It would take a revolution
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” — Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849 Sometimes it gets more and more difficult to write even just a weekly column. Partly it’s because reading and listening to the news has become such a pain with the news reports reduced to…
Clueless in Brussels
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld In the course of his visit to several European countries, President Benigno Aquino III rejected, during a forum in Brussels, Belgium, what he called “blanket statements” — and proceeded to make some blanket statements of his own. Mr. Aquino was responding to the claims of protesters and…
Ailing political prisoner dies
“His death is the face of martial law in our country today. He suffered and died because of the cruelty and injustice of this government that speaks of ‘democracy’ but denies the rights of political prisoners.” – Cristina Guevarra, secretary general of Hustisya
Relocation site almost wiped out by typhoon
Thousands of residents affected in flooded relocation sites in Montalban.