Peasant organizer and NDFP consultant Leopoldo Caloza, 60, has been imprisoned for almost 11 years.
Day: July 8, 2017
Voice of dissent assails ‘vague’ ML declaration
It’s one magistrate’s opinion against those of his 11, or 14, other colleagues. And it’s a much younger voice arguing with the many older ones who have presumably spent more years than him in thinking about the law. Yet Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic M.V.F. Leonen stood his ground as the lone full dissenter to…
The quick-fix presidency
The latest rants from the perplexing region of Duterte Land have understandably provoked the same outrage, anger and exasperation as most of their antecedents have been doing during the last 12 months. One of them was an open threat to imprison the critics of the declaration of martial law in Mindanao. Despite claims to the…