By DEX ASERDANO
Busy day
Month: August 2016
Why peace talks still hang in the balance
And so it has come to this. After stoking such high expectations about the resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and what the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) considers the top “security threat” in the country today — the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National…
A hero called Wanda
Why would an iskolar ng bayan and UP graduate who could have opted to join the rat race and chased a relatively comfortable life embraced instead the risky, challenging life of an armed revolutionary?
Grieving but proud of their red fighter son
Without a doubt, their wanderer-son is truly “Bayani ng Maralita,” (Bayani ng Maralita) a description printed on the shirts of Wendell’s family on that night of tribute and goodbyes.
Postponement of GRP-NDFP peace talks likely sans release of NDFP consultants
“The NDFP is willing to give time for the GRP to effect the release of detained NDFP consultants.” — Luis Jalandoni
The Duterte challenge
With only a few exceptions, the corporate media are failing to provide the citizenry the information it needs to understand what’s going on as the five-week-old Duterte administration pursues an aggressive agenda of governance. While supposedly focused on bringing about the changes this country needs, that agenda is turning into a challenge to the press…
More informal meetings vital to peace negotiations
It was relieving for those keenly concerned with peace to be reassured early this week that the Duterte government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines remain committed to resume, in the last week of August, the long-suspended GPH-NDFP formal peace negotiations. The misunderstandings and exchanges of mutually hurting words between the two sides…
Gov’t urged anew to free NDFP consultants
“Legalities, judicial processes should not be a hindrance but in fact should facilitate the peace negotiations because the peace negotiations have a higher objective.”
Solon, youth groups oppose mandatory ROTC
“There are better solutions for greater youth involvement in nation-building, ones which do not subscribe to the militarist approach of the ROTC.”
Manila vendors decry local gov’t attacks on their livelihood
Sidewalk vendors want to stop being targeted by Manila city’s clearing operations.
‘Branded as farmers by day, NPAs by night’ | Soldiers harass Batangas farmers
“They are here to provide protection to those claiming the lands we till.”