The immediate effect was to facilitate a conversation, if not an outright stand on imperialist wars waged by the U.S.
First Person | Slapshock’s Agent Orange
Month: November 2020
Oceanagold violates restraining order from N. Vizcaya government
BY AARON MACARAEG Bulatlat.com MANILA– Local environmental group Kalikasan- People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE) lambasted on Thursday the illegal shipment of fuel for the continuing operation of Oceanagold mining company. The fuel tankers were escorted reportedly by about 100 elements of the Kasibu Municipal Police. This was the second time it happened after the…
Petitioners to SC: Stop Terror Law
“…[t]here is a compelling necessity and urgency to prevent, running up to almost two (2) months before the oral arguments, any further implementation of the provisions of the assailed law as they impact on the lives, liberties and security of the petitioners and the public at large.”
‘Be at the frontlines, fight for people’s right to health,’ newly-passed doctors urged
This year, the plight of health workers and the dire conditions of the country’s public health system were highlighted amid the raging pandemic.
#SanaALL? | Rapid, scientific response key in controlling COVID-19 cases in S. Korea, Vietnam
What Vietnam and Southern Korea have done to combat the spread of COVID-19 are exactly the opposite of what the Philippine government has been doing so far.
Lullaby for Baby River
The music video shows Reina Mae Nasino’s continuing struggle against injustice as she remains in jail over trumped-up charges.
Address the roots of the armed conflict, red-tagged activists say
“You think you can kill a movement by persecuting them? You do not know history. If you see the history of the Catholic church, it only grew when there were martyrs whose blood actually watered the seed that was sown by Jesus Christ. So if you think that you will break the movement, you will break dissent by persecuting, you are very much mistaken.”
Recruiter
By DEE AYROSO
11 years on, kin of Ampatuan massacre victims still searching for justice
Under the Duterte administration, human rights group Karapatan said the climate of impunity that has made this massacre possible has “visibly intensified,” particularly as the attacks against journalists continue unabated.
Morado comrades | Renga, go
By TILDE ACUÑA
First Person | In Montalban, injustice thick as sludge
It’s as if the greed and neglect piled upon more greed and neglect has turned into something thick and viscid, and like mud threatens to harden into something more permanent. I can only hope that that something is awakening, and not despair.