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Dee Ayroso | Jun 14, 2021
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Kabayanihan ng Moro at katutubo: Pagpupugay sa kanilang malayang komunidad sa harap ng kolonyal na paghahari ng Espanya sa Pilipinas
Kabayanihan ng Moro at katutubo: Pagpupugay sa kanilang malayang komunidad sa harap ng kolonyal na paghahari ng Espanya sa Pilipinas
Ang mga malalayang komunidad na matagumpay na nagdepensa sa lupang ninuno at kasarinlan ay naging biktima ng diskriminasyon at pagpapabaya matapos italaga ang Republika ng Pilipinas. Dapat lamang magkaisa ang mamamayang Bangsa Moro, mga Lumad, mga mamamayang Cordillera at iba pang mga katutubo sa buong kapuluan na matagal nang nag-ukit ng tagumpay sa ating kasaysayan. Sapagkat sila ay mga bayani at martir sa pagpapasya-sa-sarili laban sa kolonyalismo at mga lokal nilang kasapakat.
NDFP: Military blurs distinction between banned and allowable landmines
NDFP: Military blurs distinction between banned and allowable landmines
The NDFP bewailed that their enemies are using the deaths of the Absalons to blur distinctions between banned and allowable landmines.
LGBTQIA, supporters ‘ride with pride’ for equality
LGBTQIA, supporters ‘ride with pride’ for equality
“This bike rally sends a clear and colorful message to the public that any person, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression (SOGIE), must not be subjected to any form of discrimination and violence.”
With peace accord stalled, unrest besieges Colombia
With peace accord stalled, unrest besieges Colombia
Its economy struck like ours by the global pandemic, the government of Colombia, in South America, proposed a law increasing taxes. The people opposed it with a general strike, launched on April 28, impelling the government to withdraw the bill and the finance minister to resign.
Decline and fall
Decline and fall
It should be evident from its name alone that PDP-Laban was committed to the recovery and defense of the democratic institutions martial law had destroyed, and to the people’s sovereign right to decide for themselves what government can best represent them.
Church leader twice arrested over ‘false charges’
Church leader twice arrested over ‘false charges’
Gomez’s arrest is a “serious attack to the Church, grave insult to the Christian faith and sacrilegious assault against our God.”
On Independence Day, Filipinos want to be free from Duterte’s ‘subservience to China’
On Independence Day, Filipinos want to be free from Duterte’s ‘subservience to China’
As the country commemorates Independence Day, Filipino progressives said they have had enough of only seeing it on paper when in reality, freedom has been scant if not trampled upon under the Duterte administration.
Duterte urged to stop attacks on women farmers
Duterte urged to stop attacks on women farmers
The National Network of Agrarian Reform Advocates (Nnara Youth) said that under the Duterte administration, 42 of the 326 farmers killed and 63 of the 80 political prisoners jailed are women.
Peasant women’s group decries AMLC’s freezing of its bank accounts
Peasant women’s group decries AMLC’s freezing of its bank accounts
Zenaida Soriano, Amihan national chairperson, denounced the freeze order saying that it was arbitrary and they were not given a chance to answer the allegations against them.
Solon condemns demolition of Lumad school in Bukidnon
Solon condemns demolition of Lumad school in Bukidnon
“Despite the government's unpreparedness for a safe return to school in this pandemic, the government continues to undermine the state of education by intensifying militarization in indigenous communities and schools."
Gov’t inaction, wrong priorities led to COVID surge, labor group asserts
Gov’t inaction, wrong priorities led to COVID surge, labor group asserts
“Why would you file a case against a person who has been afflicted by the virus when the government response has been slow and marred with wrong priorities?”
Gov’t employees fear massive layoffs over Duterte’s devolution order
Gov’t employees fear massive layoffs over Duterte’s devolution order
A government workers union said Duterte’s executive order directing the full devolution of certain government functions is silent over thousands of contractual workers who are most likely to be laid-off when this order is implemented.
Health advocates alarmed over PH silence on TRIPS waiver on vaccines
Health advocates alarmed over PH silence on TRIPS waiver on vaccines
Health experts and lawmakers are alarmed over the Philippine government's deafening silence on moves of several countries to press for the waiver of TRIPS on medicines, particularly on COVID-19 vaccines.
Balik-Tanaw | Most Precious Body and Blood
Balik-Tanaw | Most Precious Body and Blood
In sharp contrast to the biblical times, lives lost today were unholy sacrifices to the altar of greed, corruption (abuse of power), and injustices. These aren’t celebrated, but mourned. These aren’t lifted up to the skies, but buried with the heaviest burdens in our hearts.
Muog na Buo: Song of the resistance
Muog na Buo: Song of the resistance
It validates the enduring legacy of our anti-colonial heroes who sought to unite the nation by waging a war for independence.
AMLC freezes peace consultant’s compensation as martial law victim
AMLC freezes peace consultant’s compensation as martial law victim
Vicente Ladlad's wife, Fides said that his accounts are not from the money laundering or terrorism financing but resulted from Republic Act No. 10368 or the Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013.
Threat and opportunity
Threat and opportunity
That unity, however is not enough. The Nobel Prize laureate Albert Camus noted in his The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, that the man or woman opposed to the evils of the times — the individual who says “no” to “the ignorance that claims for itself the right to kill” — at the same time also implicitly says “yes” to certain values.
Duterte airs questionableview on drug-war killings
Duterte airs questionableview on drug-war killings
It shows an utter lack of rigor in the exercise of his duties as commander-in-chief, for instance, to vet intelligence information. It also indicates how lightly, if at all, he regards his oath of office to “faithfully and conscientiously fulfill my duties as President of the Philippines, preserve and defend its Constitution, execute its laws, do justice to every man and consecrate myself to the service of the Nation.”
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