“Our spirits have been weakened as our own people are verbally and physically brutalized.”
Sereno to continue fight for democracy after SC junks motion for reconsideration
Month: June 2018
Australian missionary gets temporary relief, fight vs deportation continues
“BI seems very determined…but we are also determined to keep on appealing.”
Suspended anew
By DEE AYROSO
Kadamay on Duterte’s threats | ‘Matagal na niyang pinapatay ang mga mahihirap’
Kadamay does not cower in fear amid Duterte’s threats.
Ama
Ni RENE BOY ABIVA I Ginawa kong bukas ang ‘yong simbahan para sa mga anak mong ‘alang matuluyan pinagpasyahan kong ito’y maging kanilang kanlungan sa gaya ni Aling Maring, Tata Mario at iba pa na mga nangagsipaglayas sa Baryo Kalbaryo nang hambalusin sila ng militarisasyon, ‘di lang mga tao, Ama, ang aking kinanlong kasama pati…
Dependence Day
With no sense of irony, it seems, did the United States “grant” Philippine independence on the same date as its own independence day, nearly half a century after Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed independence in Kawit, Cavite on June 12, 1898, and the First Republic was established in Malolos, Bulacan on Jan. 23, 1899. A succession of…
Duterte: Delay peace talks, ‘engage’ the public first
In April, President Duterte called for resuming the GRP-NDFP peace talks he had arbitrarily “terminated” in November. Saying it’s the “last chance” for achieving peace with the Left revolutionary movement, he gave the two sides 60 days to undertake informal/backchannel discussions to pave the ground for the fifth round of formal negotiations, which he had…
NutriaAsia workers assert right to strike
A policeman pointed his rifle at me. I could not do anything then they started hitting me and pointed a big knife at me. Then they brought me to a corner and began choking me.
Joma frustrated with Duterte’s postponement of talks
By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA Kodao Productions MANILA — While National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief negotiator Fidel Agcaoili was diplomatic in expressing his disappointment, Jose Maria Sison expressed outright frustration over President Rodrigo Duterte’s postponement of the resumption of formal talks. In a statement after the Government of the Republic of the Philippines’s…
Duterte ‘not ready’ for peace talks, addressing jobs crisis
“Official unemployment figures do not reflect the discouraged workers or those who have dropped out of the labor force after failing to find work after six months.”
Groups condemn arrest of youth activist on Independence Day
“The state’s response to the call for genuine independence is further repression.”