The 32nd EDSA commemoration was concluded with vows to defeat any other would-be dictator and tyrant.
Calls for solidarity, defiance mark EDSA People Power Commemoration
Month: February 2018
Groups commemorate 32nd year of Edsa People Power
They vowed to resist tyranny, frustrate the government’s move to amend the Constitution and the installation of another dictator through what they described as “pseudo-federalism.”
No better time than never
Former chief justice Reynato Puno says this is the “better time” to shift to a federal form of government. He didn’t say what he was comparing today with (a better time than when?). But he did claim that it’s because there’s enough public support to realize it. Puno didn’t say this because the public opinion…
Sagot ng Puki (Vagina Answers Back)
Women activists and artists perform a poem in response to President Duterte’s statement telling his soldiers to shoot women communist guerrillas in their vaginas. The poem was written by Joi Barrios-Leblanc of Bayan-USA and performed by Gleeza Joy Belandres, Maningning Vilog, Judy Taguiwalo, Sarah Elago and Angeli Bayani at the People Power Monument during the…
‘Youthquake 2.0’ | Youth and students show strength amid Duterte regime’s ‘rising tyranny’
MANILA — The youth showed their strength on Feb. 23 as they flooded the streets with calls denouncing the “anti-people policies of the President Duterte administration.” Dubbed as National Protest for Rights, Freedom, and Democracy, youth and students from different universities and colleges nationwide walked out from their classes carrying calls to defend press freedom,…
Good vibes
By DEE AYROSO
QC court arraigns Baylosis, Guerrero today; junks their motion against fake evidence
‘Political prisoners are at a disadvantage in cases such as these, where conviction may be had on the sole testimony of the arresting officer.’
Groups condemn Duterte’s barring of Rappler from covering Malacañang
“Let there be no doubt that harassing, punishing and terrorizing a free press are symptoms of a tyranny.”
Are we getting anywhere with a tough talking president?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective During his presidential campaign, Rodrigo Duterte vowed that if he becomes president, he would solve the illegal drug problem in six months, adding that the drug war would be bloody. He also promised to stamp out corruption. Well, barely after a year in office, in August 2017, President Duterte conceded…
‘Free our labor organizer’ — KMU asks PNP
Marklen Maojo Maga, 39, was arrested by policemen in plainclothes at around 8:40 a.m. after he brought his son to school. It was only in the evening that his family and lawyers confirmed that he is being held at the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group compound in Camp Crame.
Lost
By DEE AYROSO