By DEE AYROSO
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Month: February 2020
Shining
By DEE AYROSO
Corn planters
Journalists, press freedom advocates call anew for ABSCBN franchise renewal
MANILA – Progressives and press freedom advocates held a protest action today, Feb. 26, outside the Supreme Court, where an urgent quo warranto petition against ABS-CBN is currently lodged. The protest action is part of the continuing call for the franchise renewal of one of the biggest media network amid the shrinking democratic space in…
‘The one where we ousted a dictator’
President Duterte may look like he is merely copying the atrocities of the Marcos dictatorship. But a deeper scrutiny shows the system that allowed the Marcos dictatorship to rise prevailed even after his ouster.
Solon pushes for removal of journos as witnesses in anti-drug operations
“While the current law makes it optional to make journalists witnesses, many times, threats to exclude them from coverage or from receiving tips have forced them to do so.”
CA reinstates 51 dismissed GMA 7 talents
The CA ruled that the 15 “are not guilty of gross and habitual neglect of duty under the Labor Code.”
Palawan fisherfolk lament fishing regulation, harassment by state agents
“In both communities, the farmers and fisherfolk are being deprived of their right to produce food and sources of livelihood, and consequently throwing them to hunger, essentially violating their right to food.”
Dark Clouds over Manila
Nazi fascists, Japanese militarists, Spanish Falangistas – Notes on a reactionary tripartite alliance during World War II By Dr. Rainer Werning 75 years after the end of World War II it is again timely to also remember a German connection in instilling militarism, fascism and racism into the minds of Filipinos – at least segments…
Remembering the dictator’s fall
By DEE AYROSO
More firetrucks needed to suppress forest fires in Benguet – solon
“…rather than give firefighters guns, it would be better if they are given better fire fighting equipment against forest and industrial fires.”