By DEE AYROSO
Gift from Congress
Month: January 2019
Patria et Iustitia
By DEE AYROSO
Journalists mark 10 years of injustice over Ampatuan Massacre
“We remember Ampatuan Massacre but we have to bring back the rage.”
Bill lowering age of criminal liability passes second reading
“The House leadership pulled the strings to close the curtain on the period of interpellation and debate — despite the fact that the bill’s sponsor has failed to convincingly and substantially explain the rationale for rushing the measure. This is a cowardly act to constrict the space for legislative scrutiny of the patently insane measure.”
This Week on People’s History: Mendiola Massacre
In This Week on People’s History, Bulatlat remembers the gruesome massacre of 13 protesting farmers on Jan. 22, 1987. The killed farmers were among the more than 20,000 who marched to the historic bridge of Mendiola, a stone’s throw away from Malacanang, to press for a genuine agrarian reform program.
Workers to Comelec: Let Manggagawa Party-list run in 2019 polls
The MANGGAGAWA Partylist asks the COMELEC to act toward ensuring the main objective of the partylist system is met — allow marginalized groups such as the workers to expand their political participation .
32 years after Mendiola Massacre, farmers still demand justice
“Ang pagsasaka ay marangal na gawain, hindi po ito terorismo. Hindi po kami terorista.”
Church leaders call on public to defend human rights, pursue justice
“We pray for our nation and all the inhabitants therein, that they will know peace, genuine peace based on justice and righteousness.”
What the proposed lowering of age of criminal liability means to Filipino children
“Jailing children…is punitive instead of corrective. It deprives instead of fulfilling rights, and exemplifies cruelty instead of compassion.”
Inside a bus
By GI MORI
‘DFA should have ensured passport data is incorruptible, readily accessible to gov’t’
“There are technological solutions it could implement to prevent data corruption.”