LOOK: Netizens say #NoToRedTagging #YesToRedLipstick
Netizens used the hastags #YesToRedLipstick and #NoToRedTagging to call out Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade's red-tagging of advocates.
LOOK: Netizens say #NoToRedTagging #YesToRedLipstick
POSTS FOR "Month: October 2020"
Quezon groups denounce Parlade’s red-tagging, harassment against human rights defenders
Quezon groups denounce Parlade’s red-tagging, harassment against human rights defenders
“He poses himself as an advocate of free speech, and welcomes dissent, when in reality he is the number one violator of democratic rights in Southern Tagalog.”
Netizens blast Parlade’s red-tagging against Soberano, Locsin, Gray
Netizens blast Parlade’s red-tagging against Soberano, Locsin, Gray
“It is our hope that people may be allowed to freely participate in meaningful and rational discussion of issues without having been red-tagged.”
TWIPH: Pandarambong ni Imelda Marcos
TWIPH: Pandarambong ni Imelda Marcos
Ang mga kaso ng pandarambong ni Imelda Marcos at paghahanap ng hustisya.
Grief and rage for Ina Nasino and Baby River
Grief and rage for Ina Nasino and Baby River
Featuring artworks inspired by the plight and struggle of political prisoner Reina Mae Nasino and her daughter Baby River.
Implementing rules ‘worse than Terror Law itself’ – rights advocates
Implementing rules ‘worse than Terror Law itself’ – rights advocates
The Anti-Terrorism Act violates international standards on human rights and countering-terrorism with its vague and overboard definitions of “terrorism” as well as the excessive powers it grants to the Executive branch of the government.
Lawyers decry ‘cruel, inhumane, degrading treatment’ of Ina Nasino
Lawyers decry ‘cruel, inhumane, degrading treatment’ of Ina Nasino
“Most importantly, they demonstrate the BJMP and PNP’s unconscionable contempt for the accused’s grief and suffering as well as total disregard to human feelings, oblivious to public sensibilities and unmitigated disrespect for out eternally observed culture in times of bereavement.”
What is the weight of a monument?
What is the weight of a monument?
Like the Bantayog ng mga Bayani memorial in Quezon City, dedicated to a wide segment of Martial Law martyrs from community leaders such as Dulag to fighters of the New People’s Army in resisting the Marcos dictatorship, or the 1933 Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan honoring revolutionary heroes of the Katipunan who fought for independence from Spanish rule, the Anti-Chico Dam Struggle monument represents a step foward in committing our histories of resistance to public memory in more permanent form. To demolish it would be a grave disrespect of cultural and social history at the very least.
Bishop, Makabayan solons oppose House-approved budget
Bishop, Makabayan solons oppose House-approved budget
Bishop Gerardo Alminaza of the Diocese San Carlos and co-chairperson of the Church People - Workers Solidarity said that the proposed 2021 national budget “does not guarantee adequate health care especially to the poorest of the poor and those severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Balik-Tanaw | Images. Incriptions. Possessions
Balik-Tanaw | Images. Incriptions. Possessions
Again, paying taxes is not bad. It is every citizen’s duty. However when taxes are enforced to exploit and abuse the already over-burdened poor, taxes become an immoral tool of exploitation. The situation becomes abusive when taxes are used as a source of power play of the Cesars” – to command allegiance and support from the people.
Protecting Digital Space Series Ep 1: Minding Your Security
Protecting Digital Space Series Ep 1: Minding Your Security
In this first episode of our Protecting Digital Space series, let's have a quick review on the importance of digital security. Hosted by REIN TARINAY Rein Tarinay Written by REIN TARINAY and JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Edited by SARAH DE LEON/Tudla...
Surveys and the fear factor
Surveys and the fear factor
The results of the September 2020 Ulat ng Bayan (literally, the People’s Report) survey of Pulse Asia released on Oct. 8 surprised — and, said one of their fellow political observers, even “appalled” — some of the polling firm’s own executives. Indeed, in response...
Threats, empty and otherwise
Threats, empty and otherwise
It doesn’t take much imagination to picture some of President Rodrigo Duterte’s officials shaking their heads or slapping their foreheads and muttering “why on earth did he say that?” when their boss of bosses blurts out something patently absurd, incoherent, or...
A cruel irony
A cruel irony
Could Senator Leila de Lima be right? Was President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech as “plastic and (as) fake as the dolomite beach”? Did he not really mean what he said? Senator De Lima was primarily alluding to Mr. Duterte’s pre-recorded speech before the United Nations...
‘Yes, we can’ — two women activists show how
‘Yes, we can’ — two women activists show how
A lot of dire scenarios have been drawn up about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Monetary Fund recently issued World Economic Outlook 2020 saying that the global economic output has lost about $28 trillion thus far, leaving “deep and enduring...
Discredited accusation repeated after 14 years
Discredited accusation repeated after 14 years
Last week I wrote about President Duterte’s principal adviser on intelligence owning up before Congress that he had shared posts on social media from four spurious Facebook pages, without verifying the source and veracity of the information. That admission, I...
Does dubious intel input guide policy-making?
Does dubious intel input guide policy-making?
It’s a legitimate public concern to raise such a question, in light of what the designated “principal adviser to the President on intelligence” has owned up to: that he had been sharing posts on social media without verifying the source and the veracity of the...
Until the last minute, political prisoner Reina Mae Nasino denied of ‘proper mourning’
Until the last minute, political prisoner Reina Mae Nasino denied of ‘proper mourning’
“Why did this happen? I thought this would be our moment. This is not solemn. Don't you have a family?” Marites Asis, mother of Reina Mae Nasino
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