By DEE AYROSO
Year: 2019
After demolition, NBP inmates have no roof over their heads
“We know that this can’t be solved overnight. But we only ask for consideration for the sick and the elderly.” By LILY DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com MANILA – There are no more kubols or shanties inside the Maximum Security Compound of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City, but many prisoners were left out with…
On Dumagat Day, tribes vow continuing resistance to Kaliwa dam project
“We will die fighting against the dam project. We will not leave our communities.”
Ang undas para sa mga makatang bayani sa bisperas ng kanilang burol
Marami sa mga Pilipino ang gumugunita ng Undas sa pamamagitan ng pagdalaw sa libingan ng mga namayapang mahal sa buhay. Ito ang kanilan paraan upang manatiling nasa alaala ang mga namatay, at bigyan din ng parangal ang kanilang mga nagawa noong nabubuhay pa sila. Tila gaya ito ng paggunita ng kamatayan tuwing Biyernes Santo na…
Farmer arrested in Quezon
“We only want to farm in peace. When the military arrests the people they should be protecting, who do they really serve?”
Church groups hold peace mission in Mindoro’s militarized villages
Over 600 indigenous Mangyan families have been forced to evacuate from their homes in Victoria and Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro due to military operations including low-altitude strafing and bombing.
Chile today: Allende’s anti-neoliberal autumn
One of the supreme ironies in the history of protest movements is the fact that Chile, a US laboratory for covert action and direct military aggression is also the place in which the slogan “¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!” (The people united will never be defeated) originates. It is chanted by peoples in protests and meetings which honor revolutionary international solidarity.
Rights defender who survived slay try flown back to US
“I’m so, so glad to have Brandon back—but we’re not done yet. An outpouring of love and support moved mountains to make this transport happen, but we have mountains yet to move.”
Are we there yet, kasama?
The Left’s primary source of support and inspiration is the fighting masses. Their conditions reflect the failure of the current system to end poverty, hunger, landlessness, and inequality which vindicate the need for a revolutionary struggle.
Schools, if only
By DEE AYROSO
‘Tao po kami’ | Kin decry the ‘inhumane treatment’ of Bilibid inmates
“The NBP is a prison facility, not a cemetery.”