Groups gave tribute to a UP alumnus, one of the nine New People’s Army fighters slain in Nueva Ecija.
Month: September 2017
Martial law in PUP? | Student leaders slam administration’s repression
“The campus security personnel nailed the doors shut, forcibly removed the students and threatened that they will be arrested and brought to the police if they try to assert their rights. Activists are being threatened with expulsion.”
Your hint is my command
By DEE AYROSO
Piston gears up for transport, people’s protests against ‘fake’ jeep modernization
“We plan the protests to be participated in not just by transport groups but by various sectors, too, because commuters stand to pay the higher costs of this fake jeepney modernization.”
Of violence, cover up, and connections| Will justice be attained for the death of Atio Castillo?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The death due to hazing of 22-year-old Horacio “Atio” Castillo III shocked the public once more. Castillo died while undergoing hazing by his ‘brothers’ from the Aegis Juris fraternity of the University of Sto. Tomas law school. The public discussion that Castillo’s death generated is comparable to that of Leonardo…
Inequality, land grabbing at the root of crisis in Mindanao – Moro leader
“You can come visit our lands, interact with us, do business with us, but we will resist if you encroach on our lands.”
Miguel Malvar: the general who fought US imperialism
Today, Sept. 27, is the 152nd birth anniversary of the revolutionary, Gen. Miguel Malvar.
Ang Mga Kriminal
Members of Sikad perform Romulo Sandoval’s 1977 poem, ‘Ang Mga Kriminal’ (The Criminals) during a protest action against Duterte’s war on drugs, Sept. 13 in Manila.
Burning of Duterte, ‘the Night King*’
In a symbolic action in Manila on Sept. 19, members of urban poor group Kadamay and artists’ group Resbak portrayed themselves as victims of Duterte’s war on drugs and burn an effigy of the president depicted as ‘Night King.’
Vandaldalismo
ni CARLOS MANINGAT Matagal nang dinudungisan ng kapulisan ang mga pader at kalsada — gamit ang dugo ng mga biktima ng gera kontra droga; matagal nang nakamarka ang panawagan para sa hustisya; Para sa ilang burgis, wais ang paggamit ng buwis kung ang baril ay nakatutok sa mga mukha ng hinagpis.
From the countryside to the city: Lakbayan and the Philippine revolution
Lakbayan ‘transports’ the struggle from the remote to the center.