By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Day: September 25, 2014
Why emergency powers is bad for us
KALIBUTAN Ni Clemente Bautista Bulatlat.com “Emergency power is the solution to the looming power crisis.” This is the line being pushed by President Benigno Simeon Aquino and his ilk in Malacañang. In times of crisis, granting emergency powers so the government can solve national concerns is generally acceptable. His people gave it to Hugo Chavez…
After the storm, what? | To the radical and unwavering conviction of the Martial Law activists
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
Chinese think-tank urges bilateral talks on territorial dispute
“I think China-Philippine relations would be different without US interference.” – Wu Shicun, National Institute for South China Sea Studies
First UN conference on indigenous peoples mum on self-determination, state violence
“If States are really in good faith in adopting the UNDRIP and adhering to international human rights standards, why did they not accept and consider our proposal and call for an end to militarization of indigenous peoples and their territories?” – Windel Bolinget, Cordillera Peoples Alliance
Camp Bagong Diwa, during martial law and now
Are political prisoners at Camp Bagong Diwa better off now, under a supposed democracy, than during Martial Law?