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Dee Ayroso | Feb 19, 2021
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Iloilo court clears NDFP consultant of charges
Iloilo court clears NDFP consultant of charges
"The evidence against Bocala such as the fragmentation grenade, .45 and .22 caliber firearms were not established through the testimonies of the prosecution witnesses who failed to bring them to court and identify the evidence.”
Prosecutor junks charges vs 10 Marikina relief volunteers
Prosecutor junks charges vs 10 Marikina relief volunteers
“This positive development is proof the relief volunteers, comprised of teachers and jeepney drivers, are innocent and that the Philippine National Police has indeed abused their authority to illegally arrest and detain them. This is a slap on ‘mananita king’ and PNP chief Debold Sinas' face, who previously insisted that charges should be pursued against Marikina 10.”
Separated from her mother, 1-month-old baby of political prisoner dies
Separated from her mother, 1-month-old baby of political prisoner dies
Born last January with several health complications and a cleft-palate, Carlen was immediately separated from her mother after delivery through a caesarean section. Espinosa was taken back to jail in Guihulngan City three days after giving birth in a local hospital and was denied the chance to take care of her baby.
US firms behind Agent Orange stand trial in France
US firms behind Agent Orange stand trial in France
Trân Tô Nga, a 78-year-old woman who fell victim to the herbicidal chemical cocktail known as Agent Orange, is taking the firms responsible for its production to court.
FIRST PERSON | ‘Lumad students are not child warriors’
FIRST PERSON | ‘Lumad students are not child warriors’
"It was indeed very enriching for me to be given the opportunity to teach the Lumad Junior and Senior High-School students. Likewise, it was very heart-wrenching as I had learned many things from them especially in their narratives of struggles to uphold ownership of their ancestral lands and their way of life as well as their fight for self-determination and liberation from the shackles of their oppressors."
#Bulatlat20 | Covering Hacienda Luisita
#Bulatlat20 | Covering Hacienda Luisita
Bulatlat's coverage of Hacienda Luisita has since been the benchmark of other agrarian reform stories it has covered through the years, its lessons and victories often told to the next generation of journalists to serve as a reminder that peasant stories also deserve the spotlight.
Anti-Terror Law worsens human rights situation in Maguindanao
Anti-Terror Law worsens human rights situation in Maguindanao
Hundreds of families have been forced to evacuate since the imposed lockdown due to continuous military operations allegedly against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF). But the aerial bombings and mortar shelling victimized civilians; the latest casualties include two children and a pregnant woman.
Opinion | In defense of our red (tagged) comrades in the ivory tower!
Opinion | In defense of our red (tagged) comrades in the ivory tower!
These red (tagged) comrades were not responsible for the phasing out of jeepneys, for rampant violations of human rights, for the collapse of our agriculture. They took up arms precisely because they know that the peaceful means to achieve genuine social change is irresolvable in the current existing system. They realized that it was the existing system, which is unsustainable, that is utopian rather than the alternative future that they were willing to die for. They were not dreamers! They were realistic! Like the 1968 French student rebellion, they demanded the impossible!
Police files kidnapping raps against 7 Lumad students, teachers
Police files kidnapping raps against 7 Lumad students, teachers
“The Lumad students went to Cebu to escape the repression brought about by the militarization in Mindanao only to experience continuing harm. It is the relentless attacks perpetrated by no less than the government that is wreaking violence in the lives of Lumad youths who only seek to go to school and learn.”
Bulatlat Market Watch | More market stalls open in Metro Manila
Bulatlat Market Watch | More market stalls open in Metro Manila
“We are in a very crucial time, and our pork producers are in such vulnerable state, if the DA and the Duterte regime rely too much on importation now to unreliably lower prices, millions of small hog raisers are bound to go bankrupt and close permanently. Only increased local production can sustainably lower pork prices."
Bulatlat Market Watch
Bulatlat Market Watch
Under EO No. 124, the price ceiling for a kilogram of pork liempo is at P300, a kilogram of pork kasim at P270, and a kilogram of dressed chicken at P160.
FIRST PERSON | Solidarity with the poor, defending labor rights
FIRST PERSON | Solidarity with the poor, defending labor rights
For almost 30 years, I was granted the privilege of being issued a permanent resident VISA. I have been living my mission in the Philippines and I have no further desire than to continue my mission among the oppressed workers.
Painting the presence of freedom
Painting the presence of freedom
“Artists know that their freedom to create the art that they wish to is premised on the freedom of expression. When this freedom is taken away, so is their freedom to create art. And they create art to serve the basic sectors, because we basically owe everything to farmers and workers—what we eat, the things that we use everyday. When they are suppressed, then everything else is rendered meaningless.”
Carinderia vendors and workers lean on each other as food crisis looms
Carinderia vendors and workers lean on each other as food crisis looms
Carinderia vendors and consumers considerably lean on each other to combat the threat of food insecurity, but several vendors also stressed that they can’t hold on long enough and hope to receive subsidies from the government.
The choices Filipino farmers make
The choices Filipino farmers make
The stories in Sitio Compra and Sitio Buntog share many sad parallels. They are both stories of land-use conversion and violence against the nation’s dwindling agricultural communities. While peasants clamor for land reform, the Philippine government has deemed land-use conversion by large corporations as an acceptable substitute.
#Bulatlat20| From fashion to passion
#Bulatlat20| From fashion to passion
It was then that I knew that alternative news agencies like Bulatlat are instrumental in speaking truth to power. Without the shackles of corporate interest that filters and distorts news agenda, independent media is what is grounds us and directs us to reality.
Arrested Lumad students, teachers denied access to lawyers
Arrested Lumad students, teachers denied access to lawyers
"It contradicts the proper protocols of handling children. Supposedly they should have been brought to a social welfare facility and not in an undisclosed place."
Petitioners raise longer detention without charges under terror law
Petitioners raise longer detention without charges under terror law
On the third oral argument, petitioners against the Philippine terror law raised before the Supreme Court the longer period of detention without charges under Anti-Terrorism Act.
SC junks Marcos’s electoral protest vs. Robredo
SC junks Marcos’s electoral protest vs. Robredo
The Supreme Court junked the electoral protest filed by former Senator Bongbong Marcos against Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, Feb. 16.
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