On the seventh year of the Ampatuan Massacre, a widow of one of the victims joins a protest action held at the foot of Chino Roces (formerly Mendiola) bridge.
Month: November 2016
More Filipinos find it hard to pay for electricity, water – Ibon survey
“ERC is subjecting consumers once again to the presumably overpriced negotiated prices between Meralco and its affiliated generation companies.”
Reaping the whirlwind
“…in the end you cannot cheat history. History will not err in its judgement because no matter how you fabricate achievements, glorify events or conceal truths, a true people’s history will eventually unmask the fake heroes and the judgement on them will be harsh and severe.” — Renato Constantino, September 24, 1975 Finally, the Marcoses…
Trump’s counterrevolution
Supposedly founded, in 1776, on the proposition that all men are created equal, it took the United States nearly a hundred years to formally abolish slavery in 1863, and another century to integrate the races. That only in 2016 did a major political party nominate a woman for US president seems somehow apt: the right…
‘Marcos burial puts crack on peace process’
“This is like a slap on Carhrihl – the Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law – a slap on human rights.”
Katipunan rising
Three universities united in a historic protest on a shared road.
‘Duterte will feel our rage’| Anti-Marcos protest set on Nov. 25
“We cannot accept the rehabilitation of the Marcoses, and their kind of leadership based on swindling, lies, deception.”
Ateneo, Miriam, UP unite in condemning sneaky burial of Marcos at Libingan
Thousands of students, faculty members and staff of the Ateneo de Manila University, Miriam College and University of the Philippines Diliman converge at Katipunan Avenue early evening of Nov. 18 to condemn the clandestine and hasty burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
5 testimonies you should read about Martial Law
Over the years, Bulatlat interviewed many activists who fought the Marcos dictatorship. Here are just five of the most powerful testimonies. “Every night they took 10 men, made them dig their graves, then shot them dead. Every night they also took 10 women to the boat, and raped them.” — Abunawas Kali Abunawas Kali was…
‘Like a thief in the night’ | Ousted dictator Marcos’ clandestine burial draws flak
‘Marcos’ body had lain in wait for 23 years in Ilocos, why rush and disrespect the due process?’
Widespread outrage over hurried Marcos burial
“This burial today proves how the Marcoses fear the people’s protest.”