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UP has declared Sept. 21 as A Day of Remembrance to honor the memories of those who struggled against Marcos’ dictatorship and highlight the university’s role in defending “academic freedom, civil liberties, and human rights.”
“Today, our nation is reliving the nightmare. The Marcoses have conned, maneuvered, and schemed their way back into power, and into an alliance with Duterte.”
Complainants and witnesses of the recently-concluded International People's Tribunal submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) a copy of its Verdict, Indictment, Case Summaries and other evidence presented before its jurors. The IPT found President...
Trying to scare people away from participating in a broad and peaceful demonstration on the 46th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law is not only a bad idea but also a foolish one.
“Small-scale miners actually attempted to apply for regulations via an application for a ‘Minahang Bayan.’ But Benguet Corp., as tenement holder of the area, opposed this to maintain their control over the area’s mineral resources.”
In history, the LGBT Pride March is a daring political statement, anchored on the Stonewall Riots which happened on June 28, 1969.
“Desperate for justifications, both Marcos and Duterte have conjured up ‘communists’ and ‘terrorists’ as their scapegoats, hiding the real monster of State terrorism behind the curtain.”
In this 11-page verdict, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, US President Donald Trump, and international monetary organizations were found guilty of violating the political and economic rights and the right of the Filipino people to self-determination.
Ni RENE BOY ABIVA Noong araw na inaasahang tatama ang mata ni Ompong sa lupa ay s’ya namang araw kung saan kayo’y inani ng bala sa Barangay Tambang, Patikul, Sulu. Inihelera ng halimaw ang inyong katawan na waring mga kalakal sa gitna ng pamilihan at...
“Defending the environment and calling out the abusive corporations that endanger the lives of people is not a crime. Exploitative mining is.”
“Despite Duterte’s China pivot, the US military continues to hold war games and military training with Philippine troops under the Balikatan exercises.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – An expert witness during the recently-concluded tribunal revealed...
They tell the lumad farmers they will be slapped with cases if they will not ‘surrender’.
The verdict pointed out that the narratives presented during the proceedings were “eerily familiar and oftentimes similar to previous violations that past peoples’ tribunals have covered. And yet the Defendant Duterte has created new forms of attacks and intensified the old ones.”
For members of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines, art is a weapon against tyrants.
“The recent conviction of Palparan is a reminder to everyone that evil will never ever triumph.”
There is an increasing number of commercially operating large-scale mines and mineral reservation areas under Duterte, and in the case filed by environmentalists at the IPT2018, such an expansion in mining activities has come with frequent and increasingly violent attacks against anti-mining activists and environmental defenders.
Asked how he knew the real names of his alleged former comrades, self-proclaimed rebel returnee and government witness Antonio Panisan said in Cebuano that they sometimes called one another by their real names.
The 21 cases the Filipinos filed before the IPT2018 reflect the ‘attacks of the Duterte government on the Filipino people,’ under his administration’s so-called war on drugs, counter-insurgency war, and war against ‘terrorists’ that in practice has become a war against national minorities and other vocal critics of the administration.
Joint Decision dated Sept 17,2018 vs. Palparan, 2 others by Bulatlat Multimedia on Scribd Above is the historic 31-page decision penned by Judge Alexander Tamayo that found retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan and two other military officials, Col. Felipe Anotado and...
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